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I want to tell you the basic eligibility to appear in UPSC CSE examination to become an IAS officer is you must have an undergraduate degree from any recognised University in whatever stream. There is no such best or worst degree for becoming an IAS officer.

Yes some of the degrees may help you in your UPSC CSE preparation as their syllabus and UPSC CSE syllabus mostly overlaps. One such very popular degree is Bachelor in Arts. But you can do your graduation in any stream according to your interest and remove this from your mind that any degree is best or worst for UPSC CSE.

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Hello,

There is no such thing as best degree for UPSC Civil Service Exam, the eligibility criteria itself states candidates need to pass graduation in any discipline from a recognized University, there is no specific aggregate required in this case, and you can apply even in the final year of graduation, you are required to attain 21 years as on 1st August of the appearing year, so to answer your question you can go for graduation in any stream as per your preference, there is no restrictions regarding this, I'd you look at previous year toppers they come from as diverse backgrounds as that of medical/engineering/commerce/science to name a few, having humanities stream at 10+2 or graduation level with subjects like political science, geography, history, public administration, economics, sociology etc, only helps in the sense that there is considerable overlap with the syllabus of general studies and optional subjects, but as I said you can appear for this exam as well qualify it with graduation in any stream since there is no such restrictions in terms of having studied specific subject combinations, the exam is conducted in three levels that is preliminary, mains and interview.

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