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If you want to become IPS Officer then you have to appear for UPSC Civil Service Exam, and qualify the same, the exam is conducted in three stages mainly such as prelims, mains and personality test/interview, there is no such thing as best degree or college for this exam, eventually whether or not you take coaching everything comes down to your own efforts, dedication, focus and diligence to qualify the exam, as per the eligibility criteria there is no barrier of belonging to any specific stream for that matter, you may consider pursuing graduation in subjects like political science, history, geography, economics, law, public administration to name a few as there is considerable amount of overlap of these subjects to that of general studies and optional subjects, it may be one advantage that you will already be well acquainted with the portion of syllabus, some of the best universities that you can consider are delhi university, banaras hindu university, allahabad university, you may appear for CUCET that's conducted for admission to central universities all over India, you may also search our site for detailed information related to specific colleges in your area, the admission may be merit based or done through entrance exam.