DAV University Jalandhar PhD Admission 2026 - Important Dates, Seats, Eligibility, Admission Criteria

DAV University, Jalandhar invites application for admission to Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) by an entrance test and interview offered in various disciplines for the session 2020-21.



How to Apply

Candidates can fill the entrance test registration form available on the university website who are interested in these courses. Along with self-attested copies of Passport size photographs, mark sheet, and a demand draft of Rs 1000/- download and submit the filled application form. DD should be in the favor of Registrar, DAV University, Payable at Jalandhar.

You can directly pay DAV University Fee Collection Account and attached transaction slip along with the form.

  • A/c no. 33004567006, 
  • State Bank of India, 
  • DAV University, Sarmastpur, Jalandhar, 
  • IFSC: SBIN0016307 

Submit the application form latest by August 10, 2020 to:

  • The Registrar
  • DAV University
  • Village Sarmastpur
  • Jalandhar Pathankot National Highway (NH-44)
  • Jalandhar 144012
  • Punjab


Discipline/Department and Field of specialization

  • Mechanical Engineering: Manufacturing, Advance Material and Processes 
  • Electronics Communication & Engineering: Microwave Absorbing Materials / Communication Engineering / Coatings & Thin Films
  • Computer Science & Engineering: Data Mining
  • Commerce, Business Management & Economics: Economics Physical Education: Sports psychology, Test, Marketing & Strategic Management, Finance, Accounting & Managerial Practices, Marketing Management, Measurement and Evaluation Agriculture: Horticulture (Vegetable Science), Genetics & Plant Breeding 
  • Biotechnology: Virology, Plant Metabolic Engineering
  • Botany: Plant Physiology
  • Zoology: Parasitology
  • Chemistry: Analytical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Supramolecular and optical chemosensors/Inorganic Chemistry
  • Computer Science & Applications: Digital Image Processing, Soft Computing, and Machine Learning
  • Mathematics: Complex Analysis, Algebra
  • Physics: Condensed Matter Physics, Material Science, Condensed Matter Physics, thermoelasticity Condensed matter, Vedic studies, Plasma Physics, Space Science and Engineering, Polymer thin film, Magnetism, Nanomedicine, Nanomagnetism, Experimental Physics, Theoretical Nonlinear Physics
  • Psychology: Clinical, Health and Positive Psychology 
  • Civil Engineering: Geotech and Geoenvironmental Engineering


Admission Criteria 

  • Candidates who want to take admission in Ph. D. program shall have a Master's Degree with at least 55% marks in aggregate or its equivalent grade or a Professional Degree in a relevant area declared equivalent to the Master's Degree.
  • From 55% to 50% relaxation of 5% of marks may be allowed for those belonging to SC/ST/OBC candidates.
  • Candidates possessing a degree considered equivalent to M. Phil. Degree. 
  • The candidate will be selected on the base of the Entrance Test and Interview.


Ph.D. Entrance Test

The entrance test will include 100 Multiple choice questions, each question carrying 1 mark. The candidates will be required to attempt 50 questions of research methodology and 50 questions of the subject. The syllabus of the entrance test of each department is uploaded.

  • Date of Test: August 23, 2020
  • Time: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
  • Exam Centre : DAV University Campus, Jalandhar

Individual Interview 

Candidates who qualified in the entrance test and absolved from the entrance test will be called for individual Interviews. 

The Interview will think about the accompanying perspectives, viz. regardless of whether: 

  • The competitor has the skill for the proposed research;
  • The examination work can be reasonably embraced at the University 
  • The proposed territory of examination can add to new/extra information. 

Qualifying the test and Interview won't qualify a possibility for a guarantee for affirmation in the University. The last determination of the up-and-comer will be dependent upon accessibility and assent of the exploration administrator.


Note:

  • Visit the university website: www.davuniversity.org for detailed PhD, guidelines
  • Candidates are required to fill the application for who have cleared SLET/NET/GATE/JRF exam. However, they will be exempted from the entrance test.
  • Candidate appearing for the Entrance Test/Interview will get No TA/DA.


Placement Preprations 

So as to make a workforce that can support the associations, exceptional preparing programs are directed as a team with different instruction accomplices who overcome any barrier among the scholarly world and industry. Through these projects, understudies are prepared to be imaginative and inventive, shaped into pioneers and an exceptional accentuation is laid on creating ranges of abilities that are pertinent to the industry. The significant push is on arrangements and temporary jobs as DAV University solidly has confidence in giving quality vocation to its students. The Model that is followed is of bestowing those aptitudes to understudies that are applicable in the business or are advanced in nature. The abilities are bestowed by workshops and extra courses and accreditations which are acknowledged by the business. This encourages the understudies to improve their ranges of abilities and prepare them to acknowledge the duties of the business. The range of abilities bestowed comes into training in their entry-level positions where they apply their learning, explore different avenues regarding new thoughts that at last come full circle into arrangements 


About University 

DAV University, Jalandhar is promoted by DAV College Managing Committee which is India's single biggest non-government instructive association overseeing in excess of 800 organizations in the nation. It has been furnishing understudies with superb training in present-day scholarly conditions. The University follows its underlying foundations to the heritage that has been changing and rethinking India's instructive situation for a long time. The University has been set up by a Legislative Act of the Punjab Government and engaged to give degrees under Section 22 of the UGC Act 1956. It is a multi-disciplinary organization, home to resources of training greatness in subjects from designing to dialects to regular sciences including physical and life sciences. 

The setting up of the University is the zenith of the development that began with the establishment of the first DAV School in Lahore on June 1, 1886, to proliferate the standards of the strict and social reformer Swami Dayanand Saraswati. DAV University is spread over a territory of around 72 sections of land and it gives a perfect vibe to seeking after expert courses and guaranteeing all-round improvement of understudies. The grounds is well furnished with the present-day framework including best in class structures, nonstop force reinforcement, flasks and immense stopping territory in the storm cellar of each building. Play areas, sports, and wellness offices add to the personal satisfaction on the grounds. DAV University is the best college in Punjab as far as quality training and understudy support. It is better than any school or organization in Jalandhar/Punjab/the district. Without a doubt, it is the top college in Jalandhar. 

Vision 

  • To enthusiastically look for, consider, and actualize most recent subtleties, improvements and advancements in Sciences, Languages, Engineering, and Technology, Business Studies and Computer Sciences so as to guarantee that understudies build up an all-encompassing intuition for settling on key and prudent choices in the neighborhood and worldwide spectra. 
  • To outfit and change common, human, and innovative assets to guarantee supportable turn of events, so they upgrade, improve, and estate human existence with creative mind, aptitudes, and vision. Accordingly, they become instrumental in the indispensable improvement of society and humankind. 

Mission 

  • To encourage the general public to have an expansive, incorporating access to information and instruction, and to help people disentangle further elements of learning and experimentation. To empower understudies to become innovative, incorporated creatures who helpfully and inventively add to condition and society and who assume an essential job in the progression of learning and comprehension.

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