Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, Pune

The four-year full-time degree programme offered by SSLA, takes forward the ethos of NEP 2020. The programme equips students with skills to make critical connections among diverse subjects, modes of thinking, and view major decisions from a broader social and historical perspective. It enables faculty and students to engage, understand and reconcile with a wide range of ideas, viewpoints, and perspectives across several disciplines. It seeks to provide a cultural orientation to the world in which we live, and equip students with ideas, analytical and communication skills, global perspectives, as well as the ability to synthesize knowledge and make informed value judgments. 

The programme offers a comprehensive education. Courses at SSLA are broadly categorised into Core (Foundational and Skill Enhancement courses), Majors (where 12 courses have to be pursued within a specialisation along with foundational courses and a mandatory Internship), Minors (where 6 courses have to be pursued along with foundational courses within a specialisation), and Electives that are inter-trans-multidisciplinary in nature. 

Focus on research together with the requisite components of internship and community engagement, enables students to prepare for higher studies, career advancement, and for the exercise of leadership in the corporate world and the communities we live in. It also helps students develop essential 21st-century skills to seamlessly enter the workforce and gain meaningful career and life choices.

The highlights of the programme include: 

• Internationally valued 4-year programme
• Strong academics and innovative learning
• Inter, multi and transdisciplinary academic engagement
• A co-constructed and collaborative environment
• Internationalization and strong community engagement
• 1:20 faculty-to-student ratio
• 370 courses across 20 disciplines
• Workshops, study trips and conferences integrated in the programme
• International exposure, semester exchange and summer trips
• Opportunity to pursue an accelerated masters with international partners

Candidates aspiring to join SSLA will be completing the 4-year, full-time under-graduate degree programme. On completion of the programme, students will receive the degree:

Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Science Liberal Arts (Honours) with Research

OR

Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Science Liberal Arts (Honours)

Students majoring in Anthropology, Business Studies, Economics, English, History, International Relations, Media Studies, Philosophy, Political Science and Public Policy, Psychology or Sociology, with the Research Project, will receive the Bachelor of Arts (Liberal Arts) Honours with Research degree.

Those pursuing the majors mentioned above, but without the research project, have the option of pursuing an additional internship or two additional courses from the major area of specialization. The degree awarded will be Bachelor of Arts (Liberal Arts) Honours.

Similarly, students majoring in Mathematics and Statistics or Computer Studies, along with the Research Project, will be awarded the degree of Bachelor of Science (Liberal Arts) Honours with Research.

Those pursuing the above-mentioned majors, but opting for an additional internship or two additional courses from the major area of specialization, will be awarded the Bachelor of Science (Liberal Arts) Honours degree.

Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts (SSLA)*

Bachelor of Arts (Liberal Arts) Honours/Honours with Research/ Bachelor of Science (Liberal Arts) Honours/ Honours with Research

Passed standard XII (10+2) or equivalent examination from any recognised Board with a minimum of 50% marks or equivalent grade (45% marks or equivalent grade for Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes)

Note:

• CBSE/ICSE/HSC:
  • Applicants are required to secure at least 50% (Open Category) and 45% (SC, ST) in the 12th Standard

OR

• IB Certificate or Diploma students are accepted:
  • Certificate: Applicants must have a minimum of 24 credits and passed a minimum of three subjects at Higher Level (HL) and three at Standard Level (SL).
  • Diploma: Applicants must have a minimum of 24 credits and passed a minimum of three subjects at Higher Level (HL) and three at Standard Level (SL) along with core requirements of Extended Essay, Creativity, Activity, Service (CAS) and Theory of Knowledge (TOK). Diploma students should also have their IB Diploma and transcript with Diploma Results stating “Diploma Awarded”

OR

GCE/IGCSE/GCSE:
• Applicants must have a minimum of 5/4 subjects in A, B, C Grades including English at ORDINARY(“O”) Level and 2/3 subjects at ADVANCED (“A”) Levels. (Total of 7 subjects)