Welcome to TISS

Prof. Shalini Bharat

Director / Vice-Chancellor

Message from Director

Welcome to TISS, a multi-campus, integrated, community engaged public university of India. As students you are now part of India’s foremost social science university founded in 1936 by Sir Dorabjee Tata Trust to create human service professionals for addressing the emerging needs of Indian society. Continuing with that rich legacy, TISS offers some of the most contemporary and socially relevant, globally acknowledged study programs in social sciences and applied human service professions. TISS is among the top 40 Indian universities today and one of the finest in terms of promoting excellence in teaching, research, field/ internship- based learning, and social innovation and social start-ups. Led by its vision of equity and social justice TISS promotes and protects social diversity on campus and takes great pride in its pan-India student and faculty composition. Gradually, the campus is moving towards becoming international too!

VISION & MISSION

In pursuance of its vision and guiding principles, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences organises teaching programmes to facilitate the development of competent and committed professionals for practice, research and teaching; undertakes research; develops and disseminates knowledge; and reaches out to the larger community through extension, at the local, national, regional and international levels. Vision of the TISS has been to be an institution of excellence in higher education that continually responds to changing social realities through the development and application of knowledge, towards creating a people-centred, ecologically sustainable and just society that promotes and protects dignity, equality, social justice and human rights for all.

TISS and College of Defence Management (CDM) inked an MoU

TISS signed a historic Academic Agreement that facilitates Dual Masters Degree with Monash University on 20th August 2022

Launch of Dual Degrees at Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Prof. D K Srivastava appointed as Vice Chairman of the UGC!

TISS e-commerce Report : Do e-commerce impact small enterprises and employment in India?

"PSUs are laying the template for social development" says Prof. Siva Raju, Chairperson of TISS Center of Excellence in CSR

Sad demise of Prof. R.K Hebsur, an eminent political scientist and research methodologist of the country.

The German Patent (Utility Model) has been granted for a System to Account for the Impact of COVID 19 on the Household Economy.

Celebration of International Yoga Day

TISS and IPE Global join hands to research, document and disseminate solutions that transform lives of women, adolescents and girls in Rajasthan. The focus of our collaboration will be girl capital and maternal and child nutrition.

Message from Director