BU Bardhaman PhD Admission 2026 - Selection Process and Other Details

In this article, we provide you with information about Ph.D. admission at Burdwan University. University will notify the criteria for admission, the procedure for admission, subject-/discipline- wise distribution of available seats, number of seats for admission, and all other relevant information related to admission to the Ph.D. program through its website and advertisement in leading newspapers.  


Subjects offered

  • Ph.D. in Bengali
  • Ph.D. in Economics
  • Ph.D. in Education
  • Ph.D. in English
  • Ph.D. in Hindi
  • Ph.D. in History
  • Ph.D. in Mass Communication
  • Ph.D. in Philosophy
  • Ph.D. in Political Science
  • Ph.D. in Sanskrit
  • Ph.D. in Sociology
  • Ph.D. in Business Administration
  • Ph.D. in Business Administration (Human Resource)
  • Ph.D. in Tourism Management
  • Ph.D. in Commerce
  • Ph.D. in Law
  • Ph.D. in Library and Information Science


Duration

  • Ph.D. program will be for a base duration of three years, including Course Work and a limit of six years. 
  • The ladies applicants and Persons with Disability (over 40%) might be permitted an unwinding of two years for a Ph.D. program in the most extreme span. The women applicants will have Maternity Leave/Child Care Leave once in the whole span of the Ph.D. program as long as 240 days. 


Qualification 

  • Up-and-comer must have a Master's qualification from an important subject with at any rate 55% marks in total. 
  • An unwinding of 5% of marks, from 55% to half or proportional unwinding of evaluation might be taken into consideration those having a place with SC/ST/OBC-An/OBC-B/Differently Abled and different classifications 


Procedure for admission

Entrance Test 

For getting admission to the Ph.D. program an up-and-comer will need to show up for the written test to be led by the Secretary of the Faculty Council for Post-graduate Studies worried under the immediate management of the Dean of the Faculty Council for Post-graduate Studies worried in the conference with the individual Heads of its related University Departments of Studies/Directors or Chairmen of its related University Schools of or Centers for Studies and secure least qualifying characteristics of half, or as might be dictated by the Executive Council every once in a while, in this Entrance Test. The schedule of the Entrance Test will comprise of half of the exploration procedure and half will be subject explicit. 

Exclusion from Entrance Test 

Competitors who make some full-memories normal M.Phil. Degree with course work or have qualified in the UGC-NET (counting JRF)/CSIR-NET (counting JRF)/SET/SLET/GATE or instructor partnership will be absolved from showing up at the Entrance Test for admission to the Ph.D. program. 

Interview 

In the wake of qualifying in the Entrance Test or getting an exception from it, every up-and-comer will need to show up for an Interview to be directed by the Doctoral Committee at the degree of individual University Department of Studies/University School of or Center for Studies concerned. 

Subject-wise legitimacy rundown will be readied and the portion of the Supervisor(s) for every competitor will be chosen by the Doctoral Committee in its resulting gatherings before the beginning of the Course Work keeping in see the examination enthusiasm of the up-and-comer, aptitude of the Supervisor(s) and furthermore the number of existing exploration researchers of the Supervisor(s). The Doctoral Committee will likewise survey the qualification of applicants in regard of reasonableness/between disciplinarity/significance of the subject decided on. 


Interview and Quorum 

33% of the absolute number of individuals in addition to one of the Doctoral Committee will shape the majority for a gathering of the Committee which will be met by the Secretary, Faculty Council for Post-graduate Studies worried on the proposal of the Chairman of the Committee. 

Whenever regarded as essential by the Chairman of the Doctoral Committee, directors concerned might be welcome to join in and take an interest at the gathering of the Doctoral Committee, however, they will reserve no privilege to cast a ballot. 


About University 

Burdwan University began on fifteenth June, 1960, with Sukumar Sen, an ICS, as its first Vice-chancellor. It was after the abrogation of the Zamindari framework in the fifties that Uday Chand Mahtab, the last delegate of the Burdwan Raj, demonstrated his charitableness in leaving nearly his whole property of Burdwan at the removal of the state government. This, combined with the activity of the then Chief Minister of West Bengal, Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, encouraged the foundation of this University. By and by, the authoritative works are for the most part done at Rajbati (the royal residence of Barddhamana Maharaja) grounds; then again, scholarly exercises base on the Golapbag grounds essentially. 

At the underlying stage, just the humanities segment started to function. Following a year, standards of science resources were incorporated. The beginning aphorism, that this University ought to have a science-innovation predisposition, taking into account the developing needs of industrialization just around, later discovered support when Medical University and Regional Engineering University, Durgapur came to fruition. There are currently around 22 Post-graduate offices in different orders. As to promote developments, the notice might be made of the building school, named as University Institute of Technology, which has as of late been set up under the immediate control of this University with the endorsement from All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). Scholastically, Burdwan University is taking care of and supporting in excess of 100 schools. Its regional purview reaches out more than five locale - Burdwan, Hooghly (barring Serampore Subdivision), Bankura, Birbhum, and Purulia. These comprise most of Radh Bengal, the support of the antiquated civilization of India. The engravings of the past are thrown everywhere throughout the Radh Bengal. 

The University is presently in a situation to offer seminars on assorted orders. These incorporate physical instruction, B.Ed., unknown dialects, PC applications, populace training, and so on. There are likewise an Adult Continuing Education Center and the Academic Staff University. The University has an exhibition hall and workmanship display at Rajbati that presentations even the ceramics of ancient age. The University has its Distance Education wing conferring Post-graduate instruction in various subjects just as in some expert courses at the Under-graduate level. Considering social duties, the University effectively disparaged the development of a Science Center and a Planetarium, named as Meghnad Saha Planetarium. The University has set up a Rural Technology Center for the sake of Shri Binoy Krishna Choudhury, the ex-pastor of the Government of West Bengal, to bestow professional preparing and to make the extent of independent work for the provincial youth. There are plans for working up of a Central point of innovative workmanship moreover. 


Contact Details

The University of Burdwan

Rajbati, Bardhaman - 713 104,

West Bengal, India

[email protected]

www.buruniv.ac.in


Central Library 

The Central Library is housed in a two-celebrated structure in the Golapbag grounds. Being in the grounds it is effectively open from all divisions of the University. It has a floor covering the territory of around 12,000 sq ft. The library opens from 8 am to 7 pm with the exception of Saturdays and Sundays. On Saturdays, it stays open from 10 am to 5 pm. The library stays shut in Sunday. There are 19 departmental libraries in the Golapbag grounds appended to the individual offices. The library gives interview offices to outside researchers, educators of the partnered schools and understudies of different Universitys just as ex-understudies of our University based on the Library Rules. 


Computer Center 

The University has actualized grounds wide Fiber Optic LAN with Gigabit spine at the scholarly grounds (Golapbag). All the offices and areas are associated with the Computer Center through this LAN. The system is regulated and overseen by the Computer Center. 

The Internet and Email offices are being given through rapid network under the NMEICT (National Mission on Education through ICT) Project of the Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India. Additionally, a 50 Mbps Lease Line for scholastic grounds at Golapbag and a 20 Mbps Lease Line for regulatory grounds at Rajbati are being bought in by the University. The administrations are given to all the divisions nonstop consistently. The administrations are stretched out to a portion of the neighborhoods like, the Guest House, Teachers' Hostel, and so forth. 


University Health Center 

Open-air benefits alongside Emergency the board are accessible on all weekdays both in the first part of the day and toward the evening. The Health Center additionally gives prescriptions to open-air patients. At present these offices are accessible to the accompanying : 

  • Every single standard understudy of the University 
  • Full-time Research Scholars of the University 
  • Educators and representatives (counting relatives) of the University 
  • Lodging laborers and their relatives 
  • Resigned workers including his/her companion aside from free medication.

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