Vision of the Program
The School of Professional Psychology (SPP), Department of Applied Psychology (DAP) aims to introduce MS in Industrial and Organizational Psychology (I/O). The program in I/O Psychology is a two-year professional training program with an emphasis on theory, research, and professional skill development. Strength of the program would be the involvement of industry related professionals in teaching, training, and supervised internship. Business leaders, managers, and employees from all tiers of management will be involved in the delivery of this course, making it truly an interactive and market driven program. The program will have 39 credits over the two years with 6 credits given to research dissertation and 6 to internship. Assessment would vary from course to course but in general a continuous assessment paradigm, as per university design will be followed with semester wise relative GPA system.
Scope of the Program
The scope of this program at indigenous level is in high paying areas such as Corporate Trainer, Human Resources, Coaching & Consultation and many more. Whereas internationally this is one of the highest paying jobs in the corporate sector as Professional Coaching, Talent Management, Job Analysis, Recruitment and Training and so on. Apart from industrial level jobs, there is huge space for this in academic circle as lecturers and trainers especially in Business education at undergraduate and graduate levels.
