Exclusive by Rudra Narayan Sahoo, New Delhi: The next academic year is about to start in the next couple of months. A large number of universities or institutes or higher educational institutes have already started their admission process by notifying admission advertisement for their various programmes 2017-18: UG, PG, PhD, etc. The student community is closing following the admission alerts of the various universities.

Candidates who are planning to pursue career in research degrees, especially PhD degree, are eagerly watching the admission prospectus and notification. JNU has already notified official admission advertisement  and the application window will close on 05 April 2017.  Out of seven Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), four have already notified for PhD Admission 2017-18. IISER Pune only is yet to notify (IISER Tirupati and Berhampur don’t offer PhD course).  Meanwhile out of 23 IITs, 15 IITs have already notified for admission to PhD programmes for first semester 2017-18. Five new IITs don’t offer doctoral programmes.

BHU, Jamia Millia Islamia, Pondichhery, Central University of Hyderabad have not yet released any official notification for MPhil/PhD programmes. Meanwhile, PhD admissions are open at NISER Bhubaneswar, NIIT University, South Asian University, Teri University, VIT University, Saha Institute of NuclearPhysics, Kolkata, NITIE Mumbai, etc.  Here, SkillOutlook presents the list of major universities or institutes where PhD admissions are open. Hence, students can track and remain updated on the PhD admission.

List of Universities or Institutes where PhD Admissions are open:

The story is updated on 26 March 2017 and the above list is prepared with the information available on the public domain, which will help students to remain updated on the PhD Admission. Interested candidates should refer the exact admission notification released by the universities for more details on PhD admission.