New Delhi, 16 May 2024: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), a central university, has announced that JNU will accept the Score of UGC/CSIR NET Examination, June 2024 for admission to PhD programme for the academic session 2024-25 and no separate Research Entrance Test will be conducted by the University.
The salient features of admission to Ph.D Programmes in the University are summarized as under:
Applications for admission to Ph.D Programmes in the University will be invited from eligible candidates under following categories :
- JRF qualified category (Category 1) only and, II NET Score categories (Category 1: JRF qualified candidates, Category 2: Candidates qualified for Assistant Professorship without JRF and Category 3: Candidates neither qualified for JRF nor for Assistant Professorship but eligible for admission to Ph.D only on the basis of NET score).
- PhD admission under JRF Category will be done as per existing norms where 100% weightage will be assigned to viva-voce. However, candidates with valid JRF will be also eligible to apply under NET Score categories.
- Admission under NET Score Categories will replace the entrance examination. The weightage for NET Score and viva-voce will be 70% and 30%, respectively.
- The marks obtained by the candidates in the NET Examination conducted by UGC and CSIR will be valid for a period of one year for the purpose of admission to PhD programme as decided by UGC. The validity of JRF will be as mentioned in the JRF award letter.
- The University may be holding entrance examination for those PhD programmes where NET examination in the prescribed subjects/disciplines are not conducted by UGC/CSIR.
The e- Prospectus for PhD for the academic session 2024-25 will be made available shortly on the university website https://www.jnu.ac.in/main/
