Gauhati University Ph.D Admission 2026 - Selection Criteria, Registration and Important Dates

The research leading the level of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) is one of the most significant scholarly exercises of Gauhati University. We have significant dynamic research programs in the entirety of our fifty scholastic divisions across five faculty - Faculty of Arts, Science, Technology, Commerce, Management, Law, and Fine Arts. We additionally lead look into programs in designing orders through the Faculty of Engineering. The Ph.D. program of Gauhati University and all other Ph.D. related exercises are represented by the Ph.D. Regulations (2016) of Gauhati University. It fuses the UGC's most recent "Least Standards and Procedures for the Award of the Degree of Ph.D.". The nodal office for all Ph.D. related exercises is the Office of the Academic Registrar, which guarantees that all norms and systems are kept up 

Important Dates

Qualification 

• Any individual having a Postgraduate Degree of GU or from any perceived college or organization in a subject in the Faculties of Arts, Science, Commerce, Management, Law, Technology, Fine Arts, Engineering, and Medicine or other expert subjects of GU with at least 55 (fifty-five) percent of marks or identical evaluation in the concerned subject may apply for induction into the MPhil or Ph.D. programs in the concerned subject in which the competitor has the Masters Degree or in a unified subject. The base marks for SC/ST/OBC applicants or an in an unexpected way abled up-and-comer (with equivalent to or over 40% incapacity) is half or proportionate evaluation. 
• If there should arise an occurrence of Medical Sciences, the guidelines of Medical Council of India/Indian Nursing Council/Rehabilitation Council of India/proposal of Faculty of Medicine for Clinical Courses will be followed (where vital). 
• A candidate who has an M.Ed. the degree can apply for the PhD program in the Education Department for a look into a theme identified with Education, Education System, Curriculum, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology of the concerned subject, gave the candidate has a Masters Degree in the concerned subject. In such cases, the candidate should show up in the affirmation test (GU-RET), except if absolved, in the subject of the patent office and whenever conceded, the applicant should take a Co-Guide from the Education Department of GU. 
• Understudies who have shown up or are showing up in their postgraduate last assessments may likewise apply for entrance into the MPhil or Ph.D. Programs. Be that as it may, such competitors will be required to outfit their outcomes before the last selection list of fruitful candidates is set up by the concerned division. 
• A candidate who is in a help (either changeless or impermanent or low maintenance) ought to have a "No Objection Certificate" from the business before affirmation can be permitted. 

Selection Process 

The admission to the Ph.D. program is a very focused procedure which is a two-tier scholastic procedure - (I) The Research Eligibility Test (GU-RET) and (ii) Counseling. While the GURET guarantees the base principles required for an imminent research researcher to be conceded into the Ph.D. program, the 'Directing' is a sifting procedure to choose those certified candidates which are reasonable for a specific research program.

GU-RET 2020: 100 Marks

Counseling: 20 Marks

Gauhati University Research Eligibility Test 2020 

GU-RET (GU Research Eligibility Test) is the main screening test after the Central Application Process (CAP) for induction into the PhD Programs of GU, except if a candidate fits the bill for an Exemption. 

Structure of GU-RET 

The GU-RET is an assessment involving two sections (an) a typical part to test the candidate's information about thinking and fitness, mental capacity, and fundamental PC mindfulness, and research system and so forth (important for the subject concerned just), (b) a subject part, which explicitly tests the candidate's profundity of information in the subject concerned. 

The duration of GU-RET 2020 is 2 hours. 

Exemption from GU-RET 

• Exemption from showing up in the GU-RET doesn't mean programmed induction into the Ph.D. Program. It is only an advantage granted to certain meriting candidates. An absolved candidate will essentially need to experience the way toward Counseling before she/he can be conceded into the Ph.D. Program. Henceforth, all meriting competitors ought to apply through the Central Application Process (CAP). The beneficiary of CSIR/UGC-JRF, ICMR-JRF, ICAR-JRF, DBT-JRF and any National Level Fellowship/Scholarship (granted for the MPhil/PhD prgramme by a National Agency, for example, INSPIRE Fellowship) are absolved from showing up in the GU-RET. Qualified International Students are additionally absolved from showing up in the GU-RET. 
• Exception from showing up in GU-RET can be profited just once. In the event that a candidate has been absolved once and didn't show up in the Counseling session, s/he won't be given any Exemption later on. Be that as it may, the candidate can claim for Exemption recorded as a hard copy, referring to adequate reasons why he/she ought to be absolved. 
• The last affirmation of excluded candidates into the Ph.D. program will be constrained to a limit of half (50%) of complete conceded candidates in any order in any scholastic year. Hence, a competitor who is excluded from GU-RET may show up in GU-RET for confirmation through GU-RET, if the up-and-comer can't get a seat out of the half seats. 
• It ought to be NOTED that independent of any exception from showing up in the GU-RET 2020 that may be granted to a planned candidate, the candidate MUST finish the CAP and pay the essential charge.

Application Process

• Personal information
• Educational details
• Admission particulars
• Upload documents
• Personal Statement
• Declaration

About University

Gauhati University was consolidated by an Act of 1947. It began working on 26 January 1948 as an affiliating, instructing and private college in a couple of impermanent structures in Guwahati, with K. K. Handique as the main Vice-Chancellor. Phanidhar Dutta, Sailandhar Rajkhowa and Sarat Kumar Dutta were chosen as the Registrar, Treasurer and Secretary of University Classes individually. The insignia of the University chose from among many submitted, was structured by T. Mukherjee, a material originator of Ahmedabad. Two Sanskrit words recorded on it – Vidyaya Sadhayeta (which means accomplishment through learning) – show the aphorism of the University. 

The target of the University is to achieve social, monetary, social, good and otherworldly upliftment of the individuals of Assam. As expressed in the Objects and Reasons added to the Gauhati University Bill, 1947, "Assam offers extraordinary chances of concentrate in numerous fields-etymological, verifiable, ethnological, archeological, land, logical and farming. It will be the point of the proposed University to strengthen the investigation of the age-long soul of Assamese life and character, and to get them the vital changes in connection to Indian human advancement and to the unique and new driving forces of the West". The longing of seeing the University "light up the banks of the Luit" is reflected in the college song of devotion, Jilikaba Luitare Par, formed by Bhupen Hazarika.

Contact Details

Guwahati-781014 Assam India

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