Rajasthan University PhD Admission 2026 - Programs, Important Dates and Application Procedure

On the eighth of January 1947, the University of Rajputana seemed like a little star on the instructive skyline of pre-autonomous India. That little star presently called the University of Rajasthan is sparkling "like a jewel in the sky." Having obtained the status of University with Potential for Excellence, today, the University praises its 68th Foundation Day. Throughout the long term, the University has reclassified itself remembering the changing patterns of the instructive framework. 

However, let us travel through a world of fond memories and review how this University was set up. The endeavors for a different University for Rajputana State were started as ahead of schedule as 1921 when the Act for the Allahabad University was passed. The Act endorsed for detachment of Intermediate classes from the Degree classes as a condition for the alliance, which implied more use for the then schools at Jaipur, Jodhpur, and Ajmer, the main universities at that point granting University training and partnered to Allahabad University. The area of the University turned into a disputable issue. The inquiry was considered in the entirety of its angles at a gathering called by the Agent to the Governor-General in Rajputana and went to by the decision Princes and Chiefs at Mt. Abu on 20-June 1924. It was, at last, concluded that 'the overall feeling of the Conference is by all accounts that there are solid hindrances at present to a Rajputana University and that the plan is untimely however that the separate preferences of affiliating either with Agra or with Delhi under changed conditions as can be achieved ought to be investigated.' The schools in Rajasthan (recent Rajputana) were then partnered to Agra University after it was set up in 1927. After a hole of about twenty years, the endeavors were again started in 1942 by Sir Mirza Ismail, the then Prime Minister of Jaipur, who delegated J.C. Rollo as Special Education Officer for this reason. Sir Mirza Ismail and his replacement in office Sir V.T. Krishnamachari, stepped up of holding converses with the delegates of Udaipur, Jodhpur, Bikaner, Alwar and Jaipur in December 1946. They consented to the foundation of a University at Jaipur and on 8-January, 1947, enactment was proclaimed and the schools in the State officially combined into the University of Rajputana, which appeared in July the very year. It was the last (2 first) college that was set up in pre-autonomous India. 

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  • University of Rajasthan
  • JLN Marg, Jaipur 302004
  • Rajasthan, India


Ph.D. Programme

Faculty of Arts

  • Ph.D. in English (Lit. & Lang.)
  • Ph.D. in European Languages (ELLCS)
  • Ph.D. in Hindi
  • Ph.D. in Jain Studies 
  • Ph.D. in Philosophy
  • Ph.D. in Sanskrit
  • Ph.D. in Urdu & Persian

Faculty of Commerce

  • Ph.D. in Accountancy & Business Statistics
  • Ph.D. in Business Administration
  • Ph.D. in Economic Administration & Financial Mgt.

Faculty of Education

  • Ph.D. in Education
  • Ph.D. in Library & Information Science 
  • Ph.D. in Physical Education
  • Ph.D. in Nanotechnology
  • Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and Biotechnology
  • Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technology
  • Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neuroscience

Faculty of Fine Arts

  • Ph.D. in Dramatics
  • Ph.D. in Drawing & Painting
  • Ph.D. in Music

Faculty of Law 

  • Ph.D. in Law

Faculty of Management

  • Ph.D. in Management

Faculty of Science

  • Ph.D. in Botany
  • Ph.D. in Bio-Technology
  • Ph.D. in Chemistry
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science & Information Technology
  • Ph.D. in Statistics
  • Ph.D. in Geography 
  • Ph.D. in Geology
  • Ph.D. in Home Science
  • Ph.D. in Human Ecology, Environmental & Population Studies
  • Ph.D. in Mathematics
  • Ph.D. in Microbiology
  • Ph.D. in Non-Conventional Energy Resources
  • Ph.D. in Physics 
  • Ph.D. in Psychology
  • Ph.D. in Statistics
  • Ph.D. in Zoology

Faculty of Social Science

  • Ph.D. in Anthropology
  • Ph.D. in Economics
  • Ph.D. in History & Indian Culture
  • Ph.D. in Journalism and Mass Communication
  • Ph.D. in Museology and Conservation
  • Ph.D. in Political Science
  • Ph.D. in Public Administration
  • Ph.D. in Sociology
  • Ph.D. in South Asia Studies


Duration of the Programmes

  • The duration of the program is counted from the date of registration.
  • Minimum duration in technology, engineering, and management and allied programmed 36/ 48 months.
  • Minimum duration in Science & Humanities for Full-time/ Part-time shall be four/five years
  • The maximum duration shall be an additional three years.


Qualification: A contender for admission to the level of Ph.D. in any of the Faculties probably got the Master's Degree within any event 55% marks (CGPA 5.5 - 6 out of a size of 10) of any perceived University (half for SC/ST/Physically and outwardly debilitated candidates). For more subtleties please read Ph.D. Guidelines accessible on the University's site www.jagannathUniversity.org. 


Rules For Admission

  • A candidate who wants to take admission to Ph.D. is required to write the entrance examination.
  • A candidate who has cleared the entrance examination shall be called for the personal interview. In the interview, candidates are required to discuss their research interest/ area before a duly constituted Departmental Research Committee through a PowerPoint presentation.
  • After verification of original certificates and payment of the prescribed fee structure for Ph.D. selected candidates shall be provisionally admitted for the Ph.D. program.
  • The syllabus for entrance examination is available in the website.
  • The entrance examination consists of 50% subject-specific questions and 50% of the research methodology.
  • Candidates will be exempted from writing the entrance examinations who have cleared Teacher-Fellowships/MPhil/NET/SLET/UGC/CSIR(JRF)/other National level eligibility test.
  • To qualify for the personal interview candidate should secure 50% marks in the entrance examination.


Interview 

The applicants who qualify the Entrance Test will be called to meet. In the Interview/viva-voce, the applicants are required to talk about their examination intrigue/region through an introduction before an appropriately comprised Department Research Committee. 

The Interview/viva-voce will likewise think about the accompanying viewpoints, viz. regardless of whether: 

  • the applicant has the fitness for the proposed research; 
  • the exploration work can be appropriately embraced at the Institution/University; 
  • the proposed region of exploration can add to new/extra information. 

The applicants who are absolved from the Entrance test will need to take the Interview.


Documents Required

  • Prescribed fee
  • copy of PG, UG degree(s)
  • certificates of schooling and consolidated marks statements
  • copy of the fellowship award certificate (if any)
  • passport size photograph 
  • sponsorship certificate, 
  • copy of publication
  • service certificate
  • No Objection Certificate from employer
  • Migration Certificate


Facilities at University

  • Hostel: The University and its Constituent Colleges have all around outfitted Hostel convenience for the understudies. Inns are reserved for specific courses/streams or school grounds. The University is at present running 18 Hostels, out of which 13 are in the Main Campus and rest are arranged in the Constituent Colleges. Each Hostel has its own one of a kind custom. Youth celebration is sorted out in every inn consistently. This celebration leaves a significant engraving on inn prisoners. An entomb Hostel Youth Festival, 'Basant is additionally composed to give a basic serious stage to the indication of social gifts of the inn detainees. 
  • Library: The Central Library is situated close to the principal entryway of the University. It has a seating limit of around 400 understudies. It has more than 4.7 lac books and bound periodicals and so on. The Library buys into around 150 current diaries and famous magazines identifying with different subjects. Also around 7000 E-Journals are accessible for online access under the UGC-INFONET E-Journals consortium. So as to serve the clients, the library assortment has been efficient. The books have been assembled in various arrangements, for example, general books, course readings, reference books, proposals, and reports, set assortment, and so on. 
  • Clinical Facilities: The University Campus has dispensaries of Allopathic, Ayurvedic, and Homeopathy. Fundamental medications are without given of cost. Clinical wellbeing registration camps, both daily practice and concentrated (ECG, B.P., Glucose, Bone Mass Density, Pulmonary Function Tests, Prostate Screening and other Urological Tests) are composed from time to time. The Health focus is giving therapeutic, exhaustive, preventive directing, rehabilitative, (Including medicinal Yoga advising) administrations to the understudies, instructors, employees, and their wards).

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