Department of Economics
- About the Department
- Vision & Mission
- Goals & Objectives
- Programmes Offered
- Special Features
- Faculty
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About the Department
The Department of Economics was established during the year 1973-74. It is one of the earliest Departments at our college which has the age of forty four years old.The Department produced many University Rank holders before the conferment of Autonomous status.
Vision
✔ To provide good citizens with economic cum ethical values.(Learn Economics and Leave as an Economist)
Mission
✔ To enrich the students of economics with all round personality development through curricular, co-curricular and extracurricular activities with holistic approach.
Programmes Offered
B.A. Economics
Certificate Courses
1. Sales Management
2. International Business
Special Features
✔ Vocationalisation with specialization of Advertising and Salesmanship.
✔ Separate Economics Lab for the preparation of Advertisement.
✔ Industrial Tour and Field Visit.
✔ Inter-disciplinary class room teaching with department of English.
✔ Frequent Seminars and Guest Lectures.
✔ Economics of Insurance and Economics of Advertising through CBCS- offered to students of other discipline too also.
✔ Frequent Interaction with Alumni.
Retired Faculty |
Faculty |
| Dr. S. V. Shanmugasundaram, Head, Department of Economics (Rtd), Vivekananda College |
Sri P. Ramalingam Head, Department of Economics (Rtd), Vivekananda College |
| Sri S. Jeyabalan Head, Department of Economics (Rtd), Vivekananda College |
Dr. P. Sundararajan Associate Professor (Rtd), Department of Economics, Vivekananda College |
Board of Studies – University Nominees (from 06-04-2017 to 05-04-2019)
| Dr. S. Nehru,
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Gandhigram Rural Institute – Deemed University, Gandhigram Chinnalapatti , Dindigul – 624302. |