RBU Kolkata Ph.D Admission 2026 - Selection Criteria, Registration and Important Dates

Rabindra Bharati University welcomes online applications for admission to Ph.D. Projects in the subjects under the Faculty of Arts, Fine Arts and Visual Arts in the session 2026 according to the University Grants Commission (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of M.PHIL/Ph.D. Degrees) Regulations, 2016 and consequent University Regulations. Online Application can be made on the University Website at www.rbu.ac.in and admission.rbu.net.in from 06/01/2020 to 23/01/2020. Last date for online installment through admission getaway 24/01/2020 ( up to 4:00 p.m.).

Important Dates Regarding Ph.D. at Rabindra Bharati University

RBU Ph.D. Admission 2026

Qualification Criteria for PhD 

Competitors having a Master's certificate with 55% marks (50 % for SC/ST/OBC-An/OBC-B/PWD (PH) or its equal evaluation from any UGC perceived University in India or a proportionate level of a perceived outside University are qualified to apply for admission to the Ph.D. Program of concentrate in his/her disciplinary subject of study or in a subject of unified control or in an entomb disciplinary subject. Given further that an unwinding 5% marks from 55% to half (From 50 to 45 % for SC/ST/OBC-An/OBC-B/PWD (PH) might be given for the individuals who had acquired their Master's qualification preceding nineteenth September 1991. 

Number of seats available for each department

Selection Procedure for Ph.D. Programs

Every one of the candidates (other than absolved competitors as referenced above) should show up for a Written Entrance Test, and whenever qualified, need to show up for an Interview/viva-voce to be led by the particular Department Research Committee.

Written Entrance Test and Interview: 

Written Entrance Test and Interview will be taken for the determination of qualified possibility for admission to Ph.D. Programs. 

• Written Entrance Test will be of 100 marks. All out term of the Test will be 3(three hours). 
• Written Entrance Test will have two parts of 50 marks each. 
• The first half will be normal to all up-and-comers having a place with Faculties of Arts, Fine Arts and Visual Arts. 
• This half will be founded on Research Methodology. It will incorporate 50 inquiries of one mark each in MCQ mode having for four alternatives of the answer - A, B, C, and D. This half will be known as Common Research Aptitude Test. 
• The second half will be the subject arranged. It will incorporate Objective Type Questions (10 marks), Short Answer Type Questions (20 stamps) and Essay composing on given subject or territories of enthusiasm of the applicant and so on (inside 300 words) (20 marks). 

Qualifying Marks

• Each applicant should acquire 40% {(30 % for SC/ST/OBC-An/OBC-B/PWD (PH)} exclusively as qualifying marks in the two parts ( first half and second half ) . 
• In request to meet all requirements for the Interview, every competitor will be required to score in any event half (45 % for SC/ST/OBC-An/OBC-B/PWD (PH) marks (characteristics of first half and second half taken together after screening the passing characteristics of 40% (30 % for SC/ST/OBC-An/OBC-B/PWD (PH) independently in the two parts ( first half and second half ) out of 100 marks. 

Exemption from showing up the Written Entrance Test 

• The up-and-comers who have qualified NET/SET/GATE or Teacher Fellowship Holder or have passed the M.Phil program will be absolved from showing up in the Written Entrance Test to be directed by the University. Such competitors should show up in the viva-voce/meet as it were. 

Interview

• Every single qualified up-and-comer in Written Entrance Test and the competitors who have qualified/cleared M.Phil according to UGC Regulations, 2009/NET/SET/GATE or Teacher Fellowship Holder will be required to show up in Interview of 100 marks. The Interview will be led by the individual Department Research Committee. 
• In the viva-voce/meet for admission to Ph.D. programs, qualifying marks will be 50% (45% for SC, ST, OBC-An, OBC-B& PWD (PH). 
• Merit list of the up-and-comers will be set up based on a weightage of 70% to the passageway test(CET) and 30% to the exhibition in the viva-voce/Interview. For absolved applicants weightage of 100% to the presentation in the viva-voce/Interview will be given to arrange the Merit list. On account of competitors acquiring same checks in the Admission test (Written and meet both in together) for admission to Ph.D. programs, the Merit will be dictated by right off the bat including the scholarly score got in the Master's Degree; on the off chance that not settled, at that point by including the scholastic score got in the Bachelor's Degree, etc, down the vocation up to madhyamik or its equal level.

Application Processing Fees and Course fees 

Application Processing Fee : Rs.250/ - + extra charge of Bank (Rs.150/ - + extra charge of Bank for PWD competitors) 

Internal Students : Rs.7000/ - + extra Bank Charge 

External Students: Rs.7100/ - + extra Bank Charge 

How to Make Payment 

After effective submission of the application, the candidate will have the option to download or remove the print from the topped off 'Application Form' bearing the AIN (Application Identification Number) and his/her other data identifying with guidelines for payment of Application Processing Fees through Payment Gateway. The application will be summarily dismissed if payment isn't made according to guidelines given in the auto-produced Instruction Sheet for Payment. 

The Applicant will be approached to tap on the Payment Button. When it is tapped on the Payment Button, the candidate will be diverted to the Payment Gateway for payment of essential Application Processing Fees. Any of the accompanying 3 techniques for payment of Application Processing Fees can be picked: 

• Online payment through Net Banking or Credit Cards or Debit Cards of any bank. 
• Through Cash/Challan: A Pay-in-slip should be produced. The competitor can present the fees through Cash/Challan in any of the parts of Allahabad Bank following 24 hours of printing the autogenerated Cash/Challan. 
• Through NEFT: A Pay-in-slip should be created. The competitor can present the charges through NEFT in any part of the Bank wherein he/she has his/her Bank Account. Model: If an up-and-comer has ledger in State Bank of India (SBI), he/she can present the fees through NEFT in any parts of the State Bank of India (SBI). 

After payment of charges through any of the previously mentioned techniques, the competitor is encouraged to sign in again into the confirmation entrance with his/her sign in id and passwords and see payment history. Up-and-comers are encouraged to see the payment history in any event following 24 hours of fruitful exchange.

How to collect Admit Cards 

• Downloading of Admit Cards: 29/01/2020 to 31/01/2020 
• Admit Cards should be downloaded by the up-and-comers themselves by entering their Application Identification Number (AIN) imprinted on their downloaded Application Form. The competitors must print two duplicates of the downloaded Admit Card. The Admit Card will be required to be delivered at the hour of the Entrance Test. The applicant won't be permitted to sit for the Entrance Test without Admit Card. 

How to Apply

The candidates are encouraged to adhere to the guidelines noted hereunder while topping off the Application Forms on the web: 

• So as to apply on the web, candidates need to enroll themselves first. 
• During enrollment, candidate will be approached to give an email id and a versatile number, these must be legitimate ones since starting login secret word will be sent to the gave email id and portable number by means of SMS, and in future, all correspondences in such manner might be made to these email id and the given versatile no. by means of SMS. 
• Candidates must give legitimate email id and versatile number. else the enlistment procedure won't be finished. 
• After enlistment, the secret key will be sent to the enrolled email id and versatile number. 
• It is suggested that the candidate should change their secret key on the main sign in, whenever required. 
• After an effective login, the candidate will be required to choose the course(s) he/she may wish to apply and check the suitably first. When discovered qualified he/she can top off rest of the Admission Form. 
• A candidate will be required to transfer his/her filtered Photograph and Signature during topping off the affirmation structure, accordingly, he/she is encouraged to keep these prepared before topping off the confirmation structure. 
• In the event that the candidate doesn't have all the necessary data at the hour of filling the structure, he/she can spare the inadequate application as a draft (by tapping on 'Next' or 'Past' catch) and log out. Afterward, by login back to his/her record again he/she may finish the remainder of utilization structure. 
• In the wake of topping off all necessary data to present the equivalent, the candidate must concur with the given revelation, tapping on checkbox. It is imperative to take note of that when it is presented, the data previously entered can't be adjusted under any conditions. In this manner, they are encouraged to make certain about the exactness and pertinence of the topped off data before tapping the submit button. 
• After Submission of the application, a candidate will have the option to download or remove the print from the topped off 'Application Form' bearing the AIN (Application Identification Number) and his/her other data identifying with directions for the installment of Application Processing Fees through Payment Gateway. The application will be summarily dismissed if the installment isn't made according to guidelines given in the auto-produced Instruction Sheet for Payment. 
• The naturally created AIN (Application Identification Number) number will be treated as a special recognizable proof number for an application during the affirmation procedure. Along these lines, any Application Form mistakenly downloaded and printed without consequently produced AIN (Application Identification Number) won't be acknowledged under any conditions. 
• The applications, when applied by the Applicant can't be dropped or adjusted and the sum paid for the equivalent by the Applicant isn't refundable. All amount(s) paid by the Applicant, for application to the course(s) offered by 'Rabindra Bharati University' will stand appropriated. If there should be an occurrence of various installments, being prepared for a solitary application, the additional sum might be discounted to the Applicant after check, whenever applied for.

About University

The Rabindra Bharati University was built up in 1962 to stamp the birth century of the incredible artist Rabindranath Tagore, who was the principal Indian just as Asian beneficiary of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is a State University named after Tagore committed to the mission of scattering his considerations and thoughts through humanities, sociologies, workmanship, and culture. The Rabindra Bharati University subsequently includes uniqueness in anticipating itself as a middle for higher learning in performing expressions, expressive arts, language, writing, and sociologies. There are three significant resources Arts, Fine Arts and Visual Arts, housed in the Emerald Bower Campus while the first grounds Jorasanko, presently houses an exhibition hall, and hosts various occasions like Tagore's introduction to the world and demise commemorations, or the yearly University Convocation, to give some examples. Numerous prestigious entertainers like Sisir Bhaduri, Mahindra Chaudhuri, Shambu Mitra, Kumar Ray, Manoj Mitra, Jogesh Chowdhury, celebrated vocalists like Suchitra Mitra, Sumitra Sen, Maya Sen, painters like Shanu Lahiri, Dharmanarayan Dasgupta, understood artists like Sisirkana Dhar Chowdhury, Timir Baran, Pandit Swapan Chowdhury, rumored craftsmanship students of history like Shovan Som have contributed their vermin to its general scholastic undertakings as the decades progressed. Throughout the years, keeping in pace with contemporary occasions, the University, without dismissing its essential personality, has wandered into new scholastic fields by presenting courses in Geography, Human Rights and Human Development, Sociology, Environmental Studies, and Mathematics. As an inside for higher learning, the Rabindra Bharati University has been offering an assortment of different courses to take into account the requests of the developing scholastics showcase interface, for example, unknown dialect courses are offered by the School of Languages and Culture. Aside from this, the University offers instructional classes in aggressive assessments including NET and SET. The University additionally satisfies its social obligation by offering fruitful courses in Adult Education, Computer Literacy just as a course in Special Education for the in an unexpected way abled, especially for the Visually Impaired. 

Contact Details

Emerald Bower Campus, 56A, B.T. Road, Kolkata – 700 050

State: West Bengal

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.rbu.ac.in