How good and interesting is the IIT, Kanpur in economics?

Admissions to the Economics department at IIT Kanpur are done on the basis of the JEE Advanced exam.

Duration: 4 years

Degree: BS(Bachelor of Science) degree 

Curriculum: 

• The first year comprises fundamental and compulsory courses that all engineering students do. These include Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Biology, C programming, one HSS(Humanities and Social Science) course, and technical arts(Engineering drawing).
• The economics course is introduced in the 3rd semester wherein we have to do 6 courses. Out of these one is an economic course-Introduction to Microeconomics, one is an HSS course while others are related to Engineering.
• In the 4th semester, again there are 6 courses, out of which 1 is Introduction to Macroeconomics, two courses are Probability & Statistics and Maths for Economics(Optimization ) and the remaining 3 are engineering courses.
• For the rest of the semesters, the ratio of economics courses and other courses remains the same, that is 3 each.

The coursework is purely logical and needs the practical implementation of concepts. Understanding of math is very necessary to derive data from graphs. All in all, the economics course at IIT Kanpur is very interesting given that you have an interest in Mathematics and Economics.