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Thank you for choosing Mera career guide and writing to us. I appreciate that you are able to focus on one stream, Environmental Economics without getting confused so much. Environmental Economics is a branch of Economics that deals with economics related to issues with environment. It a study to understand how evolution of factories and people's behaviour affects the environment like polluting water, air or land. This goes to an extent to understand how much percentage of land/ water gets wasted due to these aivities and how much of money may be needed to get them treated for good. It also understands how people's health gets affected due to all these and the money incurred in hospitalising and treating from the ailments caused by pollution. It is an interesting career and in much demand by the NGO's and the United Nations.

If you are interested in this subject, please choose to study this as the benefits in terms of career is enormous in India and abroad for this course. If you are considering to study in India, there are a very few Universities very reputable for environmental Economics specialisation.

1. Madras school of Economics Chennai, Tamilnadu
They have a dedicated research centre for environmental economics and the faculty is well established too. They also have a Masters program in Environmental Economics running on and you may have to consider applying for it. I personally recommend you this school as their faculty and resources reputation are excellent. For your reference, their website is www.mse.ac.in

2. University of Delhi
You can apply to colleges that run MA Environmental Economics specialisations under the University of Delhi. They have a well reputed centre 'Indian society for ecological economics- INSEE' and the research publication is also been highly rewarded.

If you consider choosing studying abroad you can apply to universities in the list below. They are top ten under each country for this subject. If you want to study in USA, you need to have a good score in GRE general test and an IELTS/ TOEFL score. If you want to study in the UK, IELTS score will alone be sufficient.
USA:
1. Harvard
2. Yale
3. Stanford
4. Columbia
5. UC Berkeley
6. Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT)
7. Cornell
8. Purdue
9. UCLA
10. Washington University - Washington

UK:
1. London school of Economics (LSE)
2. Cambridge
3. Oxford
4. Warwick
5. Bristol
6. Edinburgh
7. St Andrews
8. Manchester
9. Nottingham
10. Birmingham

USA and UK admissions are currently running and you should apply before mid May for USA as the colleges start in August and you should apply by mid July the latest for UK as the colleges start in September. Be ready with your personal statement (why you want to study this particular course), two recommendation letters from your professors (recommending you on why you will be a good student on the program) and scanned copied of all certificates and transcripts from school till date. Also be ready with the test score like GRE and TOEFL for the USA and IELTS for the UK as they are required while you send in the application.


All the best.

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