The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of IIT Roorkee now offers a five year BS-MS program in Economics to keep up with the rising interests of the student population in the Economics stream and to provide education of the highest standard that our Institute is known for. This programme will be of particular interest if one envisages a career which calls for advanced analytical skills, draws on advanced knowledge of economics, and shall ensure exposure to contemporary and emerging economic policy issues at the national and international levels. It would help the students to apply various economic principles, theories and models, and understand the technical foundations behind them. The course structure is not limited to only economics, but also dives into high level of mathematics and a general level of some other subjects like Mechanics, Environmental and Electrical sciences to give a more rounded and complete education with a huge number of electives to choose from.