The Central Department of Economics (Tribhuvan University-TU) has been offering an M.Phil. in Economics since the academic year 2007. This program is designed for students who want to deepen their knowledge of economics and prepare for advanced research, including a Ph.D. It’s a semester-based course spread over three semesters. In the first two semesters, students take three core subjects and one optional subject—each course is worth 3 credit hours, adding up to 200 marks per semester. The final semester focuses entirely on thesis writing, which carries 6 credit hours and is worth 100 marks. Altogether, the M.Phil. program includes 30 credit hours and a total of 500 marks (Referenced from https://cdec.tu.edu.np)
As part of the admission assessment students are required to sit for written exam 100 marks (3 hours).
Students selected from the written exam should attend Interview. The sample interview questions are as follows:
Sample Interview Question Set-I
Interviewer 1:
1. What are the price discrimination strategies of producers in microeconomics?
2. What are the differences between Monopoly and Monopsony market?
3. In which market do the producer charges more price, for market having lower price elasticity or higher?
Interviewer 2:
4. What is Money Multiplier, and its rationale for Nepal?
5. Currently the Foreign Exchange reserve in Nepal is in comfortable position, how can this reserve be utilized?
6. If the Government of Nepal uses the FX reserve, there is huge pressure on inflation, what will be the role of the central bank to mitigate this?
Interviewer 3:
5. What is the status of the Central Bank of Nepal and the Tribhuvan University in research activities? Is it within the par, if not how can this be raised?
Interviewer 4:
6. How much are you committed to accomplish this degree? How are you going to manage the time, out of the busy professional life?
Sample Interview Question Set-II
Interviewer 1:
1. Give your introduction in Detail.
2. What is your role in your office (DEF)?
Interviewer 2:
3. Define Econometrics.
Interviewer 3:
4. How do you analyze the current economic situation of Nepal?
5. Which policy monetary or fiscal is more responsible for the current economic slowdown?
6. Which policy has a greater Long term effect on the economy?
7. Why did you shift your career from the previous ABC sector to current DEF?
8. How can we increase the contribution of the ABC/DEF sector to GDP?
9. What are the major challenges facing the ABC sector?
Interviewer 4:
10. what factor motivated you to pursue an M. Phil.?
11. How will you manage your time?
The interview ends with exchange of best wishes and thank you.
