Ambedkar University offers liberal arts education ‘in truest sense’; 50% of teaching in the field

Ambedkar University : Shubham Rai graduated from school as a science student in 2018. He wanted to do something different but was not ready for the traditional BA honours route either. While scouting for alternatives, he came across Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Delhi’s BA in Sustainable Urbanism. AUD is a young state university, launched in 2008. The course was an overlap of urban studies, humanities, social sciences, and planning and extensively interdisciplinary. To Rai, this was the best option. He then went on to pursue masters at AUD as well, earning an MA in Global Studies in 2023.

He stated, “I knew this is what I wanted to pursue, something very dynamic, even though I had to travel a lot.” The significant learning in these courses is on the field and for an individual concentrating on sociology, field work is generally significant. That makes AUD truly unique,” said Rai. He is presently working at The Energy and Assets Establishment (TERI) as a task expert.

Ambedkar College understudies say that the youthful organization is among the not many state funded colleges giving aesthetic sciences training truly. The college has intriguing courses, yet has a construction that empowers understudies to look over a different field of disciplines.

The interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary design of the college had come about even before the progressions in the educational program presented under the Public Schooling Strategy 2020 (NEP).

Anu Lather, vice-chancellor of the university, told Careers360, “While we say NEP brings in special features about the future of higher education in the country, we in the university have already been very futuristic. In the sense, we were highly interdisciplinary in nature right from the beginning – there is emphasis on continuous evaluation, which would be very rare in the country, except in terms of Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), Indian Institute of Management (IIM) and other centres of excellence who have been using this form of assessment. This keeps students on their toes as the course demands, in terms of assignments, minor projects, research and field visits.”

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