Disaster Manager

There are many institutions of repute that offer various programs in Disaster Management. The courses on offer are Certificate, Post Graduate Diploma, Master's and PhD. For certificate courses 10 + 2 students are eligible and for P.G. diploma and Master's Degree, bachelor's degree holders are eligible.

Although students from many fields usually join the disaster management course, sociology, social work, economics, public administration, psychology, geography, geology, meteorology and agriculture students opt for these more.

Entrance Exams: The entrance qualifications varies from university to university.

• National Center for Disaster Management, NCDM, IIPA, Indraprastha Estate, Ring Road, New Delhi. Offers short term specialized training programmes
• Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, MA/MSc. In Disaster Management
• Cochin University of Science and Technology, Offers B Tech in safety and Fire engineering.
• IGNOU, New Delhi Certificate and PG Diploma in Disaster Management
• National Information Center of Earthquake Engineering- IIT Kanpur, Kanpur
• IIT Roorkee, P G Diploma in Disaster Management
• Indian Institute of Remote sensing, Dehradun, P G Diploma in Geo Hazards
• Centre for Civil Defence College, Nagpur, Degree, PG Diploma in Fire Engineering and Safety
• Sikkim Manipal University of Health and Medical Technologies, Gangtok, MSc In Disaster Management
• Panjab University Chandigarh, MA in Disaster Management
• Guru Govind Singh Inderprastha University, Delhi, MBA Disaster Management
• Madras University, Chennai, P G Diploma In Disaster Management
• The Global Open University, Kohima, Nagaland, BA in Disaster Management, MA in Disaster Management and M Phil in Disaster Management
• All India Disaster Mitigation Institute, Ashram Road, Ahmadabad
• Environment Protection Training and Research Institute, Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh
• Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority, Gandhinagar, Gujarat (INDIA)