Sri Ramachandra University PhD Admission 2026 - Admission Criteria, Fees, Important Details

Applications are invited by Sri Ramachandra University for admission to Full-time and Part-time Ph.D. Programme offered under various faculties for the academic session 2026.

Important Dates

Qualification criteria for admission to the Ph.D. program: 

Possibility for admission to the Ph.D. program will have a Master's Degree or an expert Degree proclaimed proportional to the Master's Degree by the comparing statutory administrative body or a proportionate Degree with at any rate 55% marks in total or its identical evaluation 'B' in the UGC 7-point scale or an equal evaluation in a point scale any place reviewing framework is followed. An unwinding of 5% of marks, i.e., from 55% to half, or a proportionate unwinding of evaluation, will be taken into account those having a place with SC/ST/OBC/MBC (non-velvety layer). 

Selection Process 

Candidates wishing to apply for admission to the Ph.D. program under Full Time (seekingFounderChancellor Shri N.P.V. Ramasamy Udayar Fellowships) and Part-Time (internal and external) categories will have to qualify through entrance examination.

Candidates who have qualified the (i) UGC/ CSIR/ ICMR/DBT/DST NET-JRF/AICTEGATE/AYUSH/INSPIRE Fellowship or having qualified other UGC recognized national eligibility test with a valid fellowship at the time of entrance exam or(ii) work in funded research projects as JRF/SRF in the Deemed University are exempted from appearing for Entrance Examination and interview and they will be called directly for counseling and admission.

The performance of the candidate will be calculated on the written test (70% weightage) and interview (30% weightage). The qualifying marks for provisional admission to Ph.D. program is 50% in the entrance examination i.e. aggregate of marks obtained in written test and interview taken together).

Syllabus and Pattern of Entrance Examination

• Syllabus for Entrance Examination is accessible in the site www.sriramachandra.edu.in 
• The duration of the assessment will be 2 (two) hours. 
• The Entrance Examination will be led in ENGLISH as it were. The inquiry booklet will comprise of 120 various decision questions (single best reaction). 
• The composed test will have two areas, Section An and B. 
• Section-A Research Methodology: Common to all controls will have 60 questions (answer all questions) 
• Section-B Discipline-Specific: Candidates will endeavor questions from one of the accompanyings:- Prescription/Dentistry/Pharmacy/Nursing/Physiotherapy/Biomedical Sciences/Management/Allied Health Sciences/Public Health. 
• The competitors will demonstrate the chose personnel in the application form. The Section-B will have 75 questions and the up-and-comer may endeavor any 60 questions. The initial 60 questions endeavored will be considered for assessment. 
• All questions convey equivalent marks. There will be no negative mark for the wrong answer. The right answer number must be concealed with a dark Ballpoint pen in the OMR Answer Sheet provided alongside the inquiry booklet. 

Fellowships 

Regarded University offers Fellowships, each conveying a stipend of Rs.12,000/ - p.m. with a possible award of Rs.25,000/p.a. for a time of 3 years for up-and-comers undertaking research on the full-time reason for the Ph.D. program. 

Instructions for Filling Application Form 

• All passages in the application form must be composed conveniently and neatly by the candidate in his/her own penmanship utilizing blue/dark ink. All the necessary points of interest ought to be outfitted in the application with no oversight. In any case, the candidate will risk his/her application being dismissed. 
• Administration applicants ought to advance their applications through the appropriate channel. Utilizations of administration competitors submitted straightforwardly to the University won't be taken up for thought. 
• Just self-validated photograph duplicates of the archives called for ought to be encased alongside the application form. 
• Any overwriting or redress in the first declarations of the candidate ought to have been properly verified by the specialists concerned. 
• No TA/DA will be paid by Deemed University for going to the Entrance assessment (composed test/meeting) and advising. 
• Acknowledgment of the application for placement test doesn't ensure admission to the Ph.D. program. 
• The filled-in application form ought to be routed to The Academic Officer, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), Porur, Chennai – 600 116 (referencing on the spread Application for Ph.D. Placement test) by post/dispatch in order to reach prior to 01.02.2020. 
• Demand Draft for Rs.1,500/ - attracted the support of "Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (DU)" payable at Chennai, towards application, assessment, meeting and guiding charge (Non-Refundable)

About University

Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed University) recently known as SRMC and RI (DU), positioned among the top wellbeing sciences colleges in India, had its source as Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute which was set up by Sri Ramachandra Educational and Health Trust in the year 1985 as a private not-revenue driven self-financing establishment and devoted to serve the general public as a focal point of greatness with accentuation on therapeutic training, research, and human services. The Trust accomplished the undertaking of building up the Institution as a "Focal point of Excellence" under the administration of Late Shri. N.P.V.Ramasamy Udayar who was the Founder and Managing Trustee of the Trust and furthermore the primary Chancellor of the Deemed University. Shri.V.R.Venkataachalam is presently the Chancellor of the Deemed University and is additionally the Managing Trustee of the Trust. Shri R.V. Sengutuvan is the Pro-Chancellor of the Deemed University. 

In perspective on its scholastic greatness, the Government of India pronounced Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute as a Deemed University in September 1994 under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956. As told by the UGC, the classification of the foundation was changed to Sri Ramachandra University in 2006 and returned to SRMC&RI (DU) from December 2017. Presently, according to the Notification dt.08.08.2018 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India, the name of the DU has been changed to "Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University).

Contact Details

Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai

Institute of Higher Education and Research 

Porur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu-600116

Phone: 044-24765512

Website www.sriramachandra.edu.in