VMRF PhD Admission 2026 - Dates, Fee Structure and How to Apply?

Applications are invited for admission in the Ph.D. program for the session 2026 in its Vinayaka Mission's Research Foundation. Candidates who want to take admission can apply on the official website of the university. An application can be downloaded from the site www.vinayakamission.com. Appropriately filled in application must be sent by the Head of the Department and the Head of the Institution, where the competitor expects to do examine. 

Application Fee: DD of Rs. 1,000/ -

Programme Categories

• Full-Time Ph.D. Programme
• Part-Time (Internal) Ph.D. Programme
• Part-Time (External) Ph.D Programme

Duration of the Programmes 

Full – Time

• Except for Medicine: 3 to 6 years
• Medicine (M. D / M.S ./ P. G. / Diploma): Minimum of 2 years and Maximum of 4 years.

Part-Time

• Except for Medicine: 4 to 8 years
• Medicine (M. D / M.S ./ P. G. / Diploma): Minimum period of 3 years and maximum of 6 years

Ph.D (Full-time / Part-time) Areas of Research

• Faculty of Arts & Science: Biochemistry, Computer Science, Commerce, Chemistry, Environmental Science, English, Mathematics, Physics
• Faculty of Management: Management
• Faculty of Dentistry: Oral Medicine & Radiology, Periodontics, Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry, Prosthodontics
• Faculty of Engineering & Technology: Bioinformatics, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, BioEngineering, Biotechnology, Civil Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering
• Faculty of Medicine: Anatomy, Pharmacology (Medical), Biochemistry (Medical), Anaesthesia, Orthopaedics, Pathology, Community Medicine, Dermatology, ENT, General Medicine, General Surgery, Microbiology (Medical), Ophthalmology, Physiology (Medical), Psychiatric
• Faculty of Nursing: Nursing
• Faculty of Pharmacy: Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical Analysis, Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacognosy, Pharmacy Practice

Qualification 

• For admission into a Ph.D. program candidates should have a Master's qualification with 55% marks. 
• Aspirants with 2 years M.Sc., Medicinal subjects are not qualified for entrance into Ph.D. in Medicine.
• To SC/ST/OBC (non-velvety layer)/Differently-abled and different classifications of competitors a relaxation of 5% of marks will be given. 
• Applicants with M.Phil. degree, having in any event 55% marks can also apply.

Selection Procedure 

• Admission will be founded on the marks verified in the Entrance Test and Interview, subject to the satisfaction of the qualification criteria and the standards of reservation. 
• The passing marks for admission will be notified for the Entrance test for Ph.D. 

The entrance test will be of two sections 

Section 1 

• 10.00 am – 11.30 AM 
• Written Examination for a limit of 70 marks. 
• MCQ of 70 Questions of 1 mark each. 

Section 2

• Interview/Viva-Voce-for 30 marks
• As the same time of the Entrance assessment interview will be hung around.
• No TA and DA will be given. 
• Oral presentation by the aspirant, either on paper or over the table or on board before a board of subject specialists for around 10 - 20 minutes on any theme of applicant's decision, ideally in the picked territory of research.

Submission of Thesis 

• The theory will report, in a composed and academic design, a record of unique exploration work of the examination researcher prompting the disclosure of new realities or strategies or relationship of realities definitely known (diagnostic, exploratory, equipment situated and so forth) and showing a quality as to make a distinct commitment to the progression of information on humankind and the exploration researcher's capacity to attempt continued examination and present the discoveries in a proper way with real achievements of the work doubtlessly expressed and genuinely evaluated. 
• The understudy ought to present the duplicates of the proposition in a completely bound structure (3 - Spiral Binding) for a Ph.D. at the hour of Submission for assessment. When the theory is acknowledged, it is the understudy's obligation to get it appropriately bound previously and keeping 4 duplicates (1. College duplicate 2. Establishment/Library duplicate 3.Research Supervisor duplicate 4. Exploration Scholar duplicate) at the hour of the Viva Voce Examination. The intro page of the bound duplicate ought to be equivalent to the cover sheet of the theory. The intro page ought to have imprinting as an afterthought to incorporate the creator's name, truncated theory title (discretionary), degree, division, and the year. The theory will be submitted no sooner than a quarter of a year and not later than a half year, from the endorsement of the abstract by the Doctoral Committee to the college alongside application (Annexure-VII an) and Guidelines for Thesis (Annexure-VII b) Checklist (Annexure-VII c) no duty Certificate (Annexure-VII d) alongside recommended expense. 
• The postulation will be arranged carefully following the organizations and particulars endorsed. The cover sheet ((Annexure-VII e), an announcement of up-and-comer (Annexure X1 ), the declaration by the manager (Annexure X), quality, size, numbering and titles of graphs, tables and photos, assuming any, rundown of references, numbering of pages and size of the edges and so forth will be according to designs affirmed by the college. The running issue will be composed or imprinted on one side just on A4 size white paper with 1½ line dispersing, utilizing text dimension 12 with Times New Roman textual style. 
• No applicant will commonly be allowed to present his/her theory after the most extreme period referenced in provision 6. Provided that the college may for legitimate reasons and on the proposals of his administrator, award expansion of time for not over one year altogether, to the applicant. An applicant, who can't present his/her proposal considerably after the award of augmentation of one year, will have his/her enrollment dropped.

Fee Structure for Ph.D. Programme

• Application fee: Rs. 1000/-
• Registration fee: Rs. 10,000/-
• Tuition fee Full Time: Rs. 50,000/ year
• Tuition fee Part-Time: Rs. 75, 000/ year (Fee concession of Rs. 25,000 for Internal candidates)
• Methodology exam fee: Rs. 5, 000/paper
• Synopsis submission fee: Rs. 10, 000/-
• Thesis submission fee: Rs. 15, 000/-
• Viva – Voce examination fee: Rs. 10, 000/-
• Time extension fee: Rs. 10, 000 per 6 months
• Change of guide request from the student: Rs. 5, 000(one time only)
• Other fees: Rs. 10, 000/-

How to Apply 

• An application can be downloaded from the site www.vinayakamission.com. Appropriately filled in application must be sent by the Head of the Department and the Head of the Institution, where the competitor expects to do examine. 
• Competitors are mentioned to experience the rundown of opportunities accessible and approach the Institution and the Department according to their decision. 

The application should be submitted with the application fee at

• The Registrar 
• Vinayaka Mission's Research Foundation (DU) 
• Sankari Main Road (NH-47) 
• Ariyanoor, Salem - 636 308, Tamilnadu. 
• Telephone: 0427 – 25297000,3987000 

Documents to be submitted with 3 sets of attested photocopies

• PG Degree Certificate.
• PG Degree Mark sheets.
• UG & PG (or PG Diploma) Registration Certificates
• Transfer Certificate & Migration Certificate
• No Objection Certificate
• M.Phil Degree Certificate (if applicable)
• M.Phil Degree Mark sheets (if applicable)
• Latest Photo 3 Nos (stamp size)
• Adharcard
• Community certificate

About University

Vinayaka Missions had its commencement in the year 1981 with the foundation of the Thirumuruga Kirupananda Variyar Thavathiru Sundara Swamigal (TKVTSS) Medical Educational and Charitable Trust. Not a long way from that point, in 1982, the Founder-Chairman, Dr. A Shanmugasundaram established the Vinayaka Mission's College of Pharmacy in Salem, the pioneer foundation of Vinayaka Missions. In the year 2001, the "Regarded to be University" status was presented on Vinayaka Missions by The Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India, with the proposals of the UGC Under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956 as an affirmation of its greatness, the fulfillment of the most elevated level of scholarly guidelines and best infrastructural offices gave to accomplish superiority in instruction and by the goodness of this acknowledgment, Vinayaka Missions transcended to turning out to be Vinayaka Missions Research Foundation (VMRF) as the 48th University in India. 

The favorable condition gave by the University causes each understudy to accomplish greatness in their picked field of specialization. About 15,000 understudies are concentrating in the different constituent schools, and consistently around 2000 clinical, dental, homeopathy, paramedical, designing and the board experts other than expressions and science graduates move on from the VMRF grounds effectively. The dynamic condition made by the Trust encourages each understudy to build up his/her reasonable, basic, and innovative forces, accordingly empowering the fullest conceivable scholarly and self-awareness. 

Near 5000 staff individuals including prestigious Faculty, specialized and different specialists serve our understudy network to accomplish greatness in training and to make learning at VMRF foundations an incredibly pleasurable and compensating experience. The achievement of VMRF lies in its profoundly qualified and experienced workforce who are skillful and devoted to giving brilliant training. VMRF invests wholeheartedly in being the just one of its sort in India that has built up three clinical schools, one dental school, and two building universities separated from other nursing and homeopathy universities. 

Contact Details

• Vinayaka Mission's Research Foundation
• Sankari Main Road (NH-47), Ariyanoor, Salem - 636 308
• Tamil Nadu, India.
• Email: [email protected]
• Phone : +91 427 2529700
• Website: www.vinayakamission.com