Eligible candidates can apply for the programme only through the JAM (Joint Admission test for Masters). From the Academic Session 2004-05, IITs started conducting a Joint Admission test for M.Sc. (JAM). The objective of JAM is to provide admissions to M.Sc. (Two Years), Joint M.Sc.-Ph.D., M.Sc.-Ph.D.
From the year 2021, a new paper Economics (EN) is added and the purview of JAM is extended to social sciences to provide admissions to Masters Programmes in Economics at the IITs. and to reflect this, the name of the exam is changed to Joint Admission test for Masters (JAM) from 2021 (https://jam.iisc.ac.in/).