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Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Social sciences institute, Mumbai, India

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TISS's academic programs focus on the social sciences and offer post-graduate and doctoral degrees in Habitat Studies, Management and Labour Studies, Disaster Studies, Development Studies, Education, Gender Studies, Health Studies, Law, Library and Information Management, Media and Cultural Studies, Public Policy, Rural Development, and Social Work.

Since its inception TISS has had a focus on field action including responding to disasters such as the Partition of India, the Bhopal disaster, and Uttarakhand floods. Several TISS initiatives have shaped public policy in India, such as India's labour welfare laws. Notable organizations and personalities have been appreciative of TISS's social service work including Eleanor Roosevelt, Jawaharlal Nehru, Niels Bohr and the United Nations, among others.

History

TISS was founded by the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust in 1936 in the then Bombay Presidency of British India as the Sir Dorabji Tata Graduate School of Social Work. In 1944, the institute was officially renamed the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and, in 1964, the Government of India declared TISS a deemed university under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act (UGC), 1956.

In 1954, TISS moved to a permanent campus at Deonar, Mumbai (now known as the Main Campus), from the earlier campuses at Nagpada and then Andheri. In 2001, the Deonar campus was expanded to include the Malti Jal and Jal A. D. Naoroji Campus Annexe, which are now commonly known as the New Campus. In 1986, TISS established a rural campus in Tuljapur, Maharashtra, and two off-campuses in Guwahati and Hyderabad in 2011. In addition to these campuses, TISS offers teaching, training, research, and development support from centres established across India including in Leh (Ladakh) and Port Blair (Andaman and Nicobar Islands).

Academic collaborations

The Tata Institute of Social Sciences has a history of collaboration with institutions in India. The institute also has academic and research collaborations with other institutes and universities including the University of Chicago, the London School of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sciences Po, and 12 universities under the Erasmus Mundus program.

London School of Economics and Political Science research collaboration, was launched at LSE in June 2007. The programme is undertaken in two streams, namely, Social Sciences and Health.

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