Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University M.Phil and Ph.D. Admission 2026

Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University, has been named after the extraordinary social reformer Thakur Panchanan Barma. Panchanan Barma, otherwise called Thakur Panchanan and Roy Saheb, was a Rajbanshi pioneer and reformer from Cooch Behar. He set up Kshatriya Sabha so as to instill Brahminical qualities and practices among the individuals from Rajbanshi people group in this area specifically, and in Bengal all in all. Thakur Panchanan Barma (1866 - 1935) was conceived at Khalisamari town in recent Cooch Behar State. He moved on from Victoria University, Cooch Behar - which was then partnered with the University of Calcutta - with a distinction in Sanskrit in 1893. Later he passed MA and LLB in 1897 and 1898 separately from a similar university. 

Since the time its origin Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University has flourished to take into account the requirements of the hopeful understudies who are the eventual fate of our nation. This University is named after the incomparable Rajbanshi pioneer and social reformer Panchanan Barma otherwise called Thakur Panchanan and Roy Saheb. 

It is an incredible benefit and respect to be a piece of the strategic make Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University a name to figure inside the scholarly brotherhood by giving a solid force to making a situation of information application and comprehensively moving understudies to become famous pioneers of tomorrow. Our test is to assist with producing thoughts that will profit society and to teach and train individuals to work in fields where they will be esteemed both for their particular information and for their capacity to explore, impart and tackle issues. 

We have 30700 understudies (approx.) of whom 29400 understudies (approx.) are university understudies concentrating in fifteen schools associated to Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University and 1300 understudies (approx.) are post-graduate understudies of our University. We are set up to acknowledge new demands and make our University a notable instructive focus of information age, procurement, and scattering.

Contact Details

• Coochbehar Panchanan Barma University,
• Vivekananda Street, Cooch Behar,
• West Bengal, India - 736101
• E-mail: [email protected]
• Website: www.cbpbu.ac.in

Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University M.Phil and Ph.D. Admission 2026

Duration

• The duration of the M.Phil Program shall be two consecutive years.
• The duration of Ph.D. Program shall be for a minimum period of three years and a maximum of six years including course work. 

Qualification 

• Candidates should have a Master's degree by the corresponding statutory regulatory body, with at least 55% marks in aggregate who wants admission to the M.Phil./Ph.D. program.
• Those belonging to SC/ST/OBC, a relaxation of 5% of marks, from 55% to 50%, or an equivalent relaxation of grade, may be allowed.
• Candidates who have successfully completed M.Phil. with at least 55% marks in aggregate from this University.
• An individual whose M.Phil. the thesis has been assessed and the Viva-Voce is pending under any Department/Center or Research Program of the college, might be temporarily admitted to the Ph.D. program of the college however, the confirmation will be affirmed if the up-and-comer qualifies in the M.Phil. degree with the essential level of imprints/grade. 
• Applicants having a degree thought-about equal to the M.Phil. level of other Indian Institutions or from a Foreign Educational Institution certify by an Assessment and Accreditation Agency which is affirmed, perceived or approved by a position, set up or joined under a law in its nation of origin or some other legal expert in that nation to evaluate, authorizing or guaranteeing quality and norms of instructive establishments, will be qualified for admission to the Ph.D. program. 
• Confirmation for the M.Phil./Ph.D. program for outer applicants (National/Foreign) will continue after assurance of identicalness of the passing degree by the Departmental Research Committee (DRC) and satisfaction of the affirmation measures according to the University. 

Entrance Test and Exemption

• For admission to M.Phil./Ph.D. programs candidates have to attempt an entrance test named as Research Eligibility Test and it shall be followed by an interview.
• Candidates are exempted from entrance test who have cleared NET/SLET/SET, or any other National or State Level test.
• The university will tell in any event two national papers of which at any rate one will be in the local language just as on the University site, showing the number of empty seats accessible in every office referencing the date of RET and meeting. The warning will plainly make reference to that choice against such opportunities doesn't guarantee cooperation/grant. 

Entrance Test, Interview, and Admission

• Under the supervision of the respective DRC, RET shall be conducted by each department.
• The total marks will be 100. 50 percent shall be subject-specific and the remaining 50 percent of the total marks will be in the area of Research Methodology.
• 50 percent of the total marks will be qualifying marks for the RET.
• The Entrance Test will be trailed by an Interview to be directed by the DRC. An applicant who has been absolved from showing up at the Entranceway test will likewise be required to show up at the Interview. At the hour of the Interview, the Departmental Research Committee will impartially evaluate the examination enthusiasm of the up-and-comer in the applicable field/zone. At the hour of the Interview, the DRC will likewise evaluate whether the applicant has the capability for the proposed examination and whether the proposed region of exploration can add to new/extra information. All out imprints for Interview will be 100 (30% imprints will be founded on the applicant's postgraduate imprints and 70% on competitor's information). 

Documents required for Registration

• Photocopies of all degree mark-sheets
• Photocopies of Ph.D. course work mark sheet 
• Photocopies of certificate NET/SET/GATE/M.Phill
• NOC for employed candidates
• Photocopies of SC/ST/OBC/DA certificates
• Migration Certificate in original
• Photocopies of photo identity proof/address proof
• Six copies of Synopsis (within 1000 to 3000 words)
• Two copies of colored passport size photographs.
• Seminar report of the Ph.D. registration by the DRC
• Acceptance letter by the Principal Supervisor

Course Work 

• The credit doled out to M.Phil./Ph.D. Course Work will be at least (10) Ten Credits of complete 200 imprints. Least of four credits will be doled out to at least one seminars on Research Methodology covering territories, for example, quantitative techniques, PC applications, and survey of distributed examination in the significant field, preparing, fieldwork, and so on. Furthermore, (02) Two Credits will be allocated alongside (04) Four Credit referenced prior for Research and Publication Ethics (RPE). Different courses will be propelled level courses for setting up the understudies for M.Phil./Ph.D. Degree. 
• All competitors admitted to the M.Phil. what's more, Ph.D. programs will be required to finish the course work for a base time of one semester (a half year), endorsed by the separate DRC during the underlying one semester. The prospectus will be defined by the DRC every once in a while 
• An understudy will be permitted to show up at the Course Work Term End Examination on the off chance that he/she has gone to 75% or above of the program addresses/handy classes held during that semester. On the off chance that the participation misses the mark concerning 75%, he/she will not be permitted to show up in the assessment. 

Submission of the Thesis 

• The University authority/Registrar will advance component utilizing very much created programming and devices to identify written falsification and different types of scholarly untruthfulness, assuming any, in the thesis. 
• The competitor will present his/her theory for arbitration inside a time of a half year from the date of the pre-Submission class. 
• While submitting for assessment, the proposition will fuse hostile to literary theft report gave by the Competent authority of CBPBU dependent on programming created and affirmed by the University, to be worked from the exploration researcher just as a testament from the examination director authenticating the creativity of the work (according to annexure IV), vouching for that similitude file doesn't surpass 30% (barring the book index and works previously distributed somewhere else by the researcher), and that the work has not been submitted for the honor for some other degree/recognition of a similar organization where the work was done or to some other establishment. 
• The applicant will submit five (extra duplicates for Co-Supervisor/s) printed duplicates of the proposal inbound structure alongside two CDs containing the whole theory as a pdf alongside the distributed article(s) and the papers introduced in the conference(s). Up-and-comer will submit leeway endorsement given by the money branch, the examination researcher lodging, the library area, and such different reports as might be indicated alongside his/her proposal. The applicant will store endorsed non-refundable charges. 
• The Supervisor's declaration in regards to the validity of the examination work alongside an appropriate endeavor from the exploration researcher must be submitted with the proposal. The researcher will likewise submit five duplicates of unique/rundown of the Thesis will be made ordinarily in not in excess of 5,000 words on the synopsis and discoveries of the work. 
• Ph.D. researchers must distribute in any event one (1) Research paper in alluded diaries and make two paper introductions in gatherings/courses before the Submission of the thesis for mediation, and produce proof of the equivalent in the structure reprints as well as introduction endorsements. Where alluded diaries are not accessible or constrained, DRC will present the name of accessible diaries to the CBRS for thought and endorsement of the EC.