The department offers a Masters program(Master of Arts) in Rural Development. The program differs from the previous one(its predecessor) in terms of both theoretical structure and students’ performance evaluation system. Unlike its predecessor, it is based on the semester system, which is a recent development in the history of higher education in Nepal. The rational behind the adoption of such a system lies in the historically and empirically substantiated  fact that it is only through the academic programs based on a semester system that more students are more likely to develop their latent intellectual ability, which is reflected in such intellectual products as thesis, articles and books.

MA Semester Course Structure, 2019

Year Semester Course Code Course Title Credit Hour Lecture
I I RDS 551 Development: Theory and Discourse 3 48
I I RDS 552 Economic Dimensions of Development 3 48
I I RDS 553 Socio-cultural Dimensions of Development 3 48
I I RDS 554 Local Governance and Development 3 48
I I RDS 555 Measurements in Development 3 48
           
I II RDS 561 Community Development in Nepal 3 48
I II RDS 562 Policy, Strategy and Planning in Development 3 48
I II RDS 563 Rural Urban Linkage 3 48
I II RDS 564 Project Management 3 48
I II RDS 565 Agriculture and Development 3 48
           
II III RDS 571 Political Economy of Nepal 3 48
II III RDS 572 Tourism and Development 3 48
II III RDS 573 Sustainable Development 3 48
II III RDS 574 Gender and Development 3 48
II III RDS 575 Research Methodology 3 48
           
II IV RDS 581 Population, Migration and Remittance 3 48
II IV RDS 582 Human Resource Management 3 48
Elective (choose only one)
II IV RDS 583 Natural Resource Management 3 48
II IV RDS 584 Marketing and Entrepreneurship Development 3 48
To be developed
II IV RDS 585 Development Finance 3 48
II IV RDS 586 Development Practice in Nepal
II IV RDS 587 Disaster Management
II IV RDS 588 Thesis 6  

The MA program in Rural Development aims at producing such men power(be they development practitioners, development researchers or university teachers) as are well equipped with both adequate theoretical knowledge and great skill required to translate that knowledge into action in the field of development in general and rural development in particular. Faculty members who have gained a critical and analytical understanding of various theoretical insights derived from different social science disciplines, which help us understand development in general and rural development in particular. They are also engaged in a serious research with a view to broadening the base of their knowledge and contributing to the knowledge base of the development studies they belong to.