Expanding its offerings beyond Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, IIT-Bombay will now provide Bachelor of Science courses in subjects including Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and History. The idea is to enable those who want to explore different fields, venture out in new directions.

The new programme will be called the Liberal Arts, Sciences and Engineering (LASE), said Director Subhasis Chaudhury on the Powai institute’s Facebook page. “In a world full of complex, interdisciplinary problems from climate change to AI to global pandemics, a combination of broad foundations and technical depth is urgently required. A look at the best institutions globally shows that such a combination is highly effective for innovation and leadership across disciplines. It was time we had such a program of our own,” he wrote.