MKU Madurai Ph.D. Admission 2026 - Entrance Exam, Important Dates and Admission Process

Set up in 1966, Madurai Kamaraj University as a State University accomplished the status of University with Potential for Excellence for 'Instructing, Research and Outreach' in 2007. The University is represented by Acts, Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations. The University has been licensed with "A" grade in the third cycle (2015) by NAAC. In the 2017 Golden Jubilee Convocation, 809 Ph.D. Researchers were granted doctoral degrees. The University is in its untiring excursion looking for information creation and spread that brought about acknowledgments by its employees which incorporate 4 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards, 8 FNAs, 8 FNAScs, 11 FAScs, 2 TWAS, a Senior Spallanzani Fellow and 16 Tamil Nadu Scientist Awards. Fourteen personnel of the University have been raised as Vice-Chancellors including the current Vice-Chancellor. A few Alumni are IAS/IPS/IRS officials. 

The University with 20 Schools including 77 Departments offers 44 Post Graduate, 40 M.Phil., 57 Ph.D. projects, and 17 certificates/P.G. recognition/endorsement courses has created around one crore graduates in the previous 50 years. At present, a sum of 4650 UG/PG understudies and examination researchers are on the roll. All the courses in the University follow Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) and there is an inbuilt arrangement for parallel and vertical versatility. Twelve schools are perceived under UGC with Special Assistance Programs (SAP, for example, CAS, DSA, and DRS at different stages. Branch of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi has authorized 9 crores in the main stage under the PURSE program that upheld seven science Schools. In the subsequent stage, 7.5 crores have been endorsed for the period 2017-2021. Schools of Biological Sciences (SBS), Biotechnology, Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics are bolstered with the DST-FIST program. The subsidizing organizations, for example, UGC, CSIR, DST, DBT, DAE-BRNS, MoEF, MoES, ICMR, ICSSR, DRDO, ICAR, MHRD and so on support the exploration plans in different offices. One of a kind Centers, for example, Center for Excellence in Genomic Sciences, Networking Resource Center in Biological Sciences, Center of Excellence in Innovations in Biotechnology, Unit of Excellence in Cancer Genetics, Center for Biodiversity and Forest Studies and Regional Solar Energy Testing Center adds driving force to the exploration office of the University. School of Biological Sciences has gotten 10 crores for the second period of NRCBS (2017-2022). Presently 160 individual examination ventures are being done with an expense of 11.22 crores. Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) has authorized 20 crores and has delivered an aggregate of 10 crores as the first portion for improving the framework. Works are in progress to redesign 82 regular homerooms as ICT/Wi-fi empowered savvy study halls and to make an incorporated 300 situated language and PC lab under RUSA subsidize. Wellness focuses are set up in all the 8 hostels. Cancellation of Registration.

Contact Us

• Madurai Kamaraj University
• Palkalai Nagar
• Madurai - 625021
• Tamil Nadu
• India
• Email:[email protected]

Eligibility Criteria

• Candidates who have passed any PG Degree under regular pattern in recognized University
• 50% marks for SC/ST/OBC (non creamy layer) / Person with Disability
• 55% marks for all Other Candidates.

Entrance test 

The Entrance Test will be led by the University and will involve two sections, every one of one hour term. The tests will be of target type with a limit of 50 denotes each. The initial segment incorporates Research inclination, English understanding (for Indian Languages, separate language appreciation), rationale and general thinking and the subsequent part will be in the subject worried in which the competitor is happy to seek after the Ph.D. degree. The inquiries will be set by specialists in the field worried in the Research Department/Centers of the University. 

Interview 

Following the Entrance test, in light of positioning, the competitors will be short recorded and required an Interview by their individual Research Department/Center/Institution after endorsement by the University. For the Selection of applicants, a weightage of 70% to the Entrance test and 30% to the exhibition in the Interview/viva-voce will be given. An Interview will be directed for the benefit of the University at the Research Department/Research Center of the school where the competitors are required to talk about their examination intrigue/region through an introduction before a properly comprised Department Research Committee comprising of the Head of the Institution, Head of the Research Center and the potential aides who have opportunities on account of subsidiary universities and the top of the division, the potential aides who have opening and a Subject Expert ideally outer in the particular territory of exploration favored by the up-and-comer. 

Selection 

At the hour of the Interview, the division research board of trustees will associate with the competitor and evaluate his/her examination intrigue/fitness. By coordinating the Entrance test marks and the presentation of the up-and-comer in the Interview, the division research advisory group will rank the up-and-comers based on the imprints acquired in the Entrance Test and the Interview consolidated. 

Classes of Registration 

• Full-time: The applicant, who participates in a Research Department/Center/Institution will fill in as a full-time research researcher for a base time of 3 years in the picked subject which will be identified with the principal part of the information on the Master's Degree. 
• Part-time: The enlistment under low maintenance class will be for those up-and-comers, independent of their business status, who can work during week-closures, occasions, and get-aways at the Research Institution where they are conceded for seeking after exploration. The applicants enlisted under this classification are required to be accessible to the guide so as to do investigate during occasions and excursions and week-closes. In the event that a competitor enrolled in this classification is chosen under a grant/partnership program/plot, including the Faculty Development Program of UGC, he/she will be allowed to proceed with the exploration as a full-time research researcher in the office where the guide works.

Cancellation of Registration 

• In the event that the scholastic execution of the understudy is found not good to the degree of resistance of the conditions specified during the enlistment time frame, introduction of classes, accommodation of reports, and so forth., activity on this tally to drop the enrollment will be taken dependent on the report of the Research Advisory Committee. 
• If the understudy neglects to present the proposition inside the specified period after the date of affirmation of enlistment, his/her enrollment will naturally stand dropped. A dropped enlistment will not be restored/renounced. 
• If an understudy wishes to drop his/her enlistment on his/her own, the order for wiping out properly sent by the Research Guide and the Head of the Department/Head of the Research place/Principal of the College will be submitted recorded as a hard copy. The applicant should pay all the charges due up to the date of finishing of the base time frame allowed or the date of wiping out whichever is later. 

How to apply online

• Join yourself by tapping on with a valid email id and secret phrase. 
• When you have finished your Sign-up then snap on to login in into your record. 
• After login, click on in the left menu board to begin filling your Ph.D. Application form. 
• The Application form contains 6 pages/steps, total filling your application shapes bit by bit, giving every required detail demonstrated by Redstar. 
• The candidate can spare the application form up-to what they have finished. 
• The candidate ought to present their application form inside 30 days from the date of sign-up, else their information will be expelled from the Server naturally. 
• After the form is presented the candidate can't ready to roll out any improvements. You are mentioned to check all pages of online application and ensure that the information gave is exact, clear, and real. 
• When you have effectively filled the form, click the Submit catch and afterward yes to finish the online-accommodation process. 

List of Uploads Required for Online Filling

Step 1

• Applicant Passport size photo
• Community Certificate
• Physically Challenged 

Step 2

• Educational Qualification 
• Qualifying Examination

Step 3

• No Objection Certificate
• Service Certificate
• Approval Letter for Fellowship 

Step 4

• Research Proposal (Mandatory)

Step 5

• Passport Copy for Foreign/NRI applicants
• Visa copy for Foreign/NRI applicants
• DRC Minutes 
• Supervisor Information Report
• Centre Information Report
• A facility providing Certificate by Centre

Step 6

• Scanned signature of the applicant