Online Applications are open

*Entrance Test on 13 June 2020

CHRIST follows University Grants Commission (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of M.Phil./Ph.D Degrees) Regulations, 2016 and the subsequent Amendments.

CHRIST (Deemed to be University) offers PhD in Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences, Commerce, Management, Engineering and Law both in full-time and part-time mode.

CHRIST grants fellowship of Rs 8000/- per month as PhD fellowship to all full-time PhD Scholars.

• Conditions for awarding the fellowship are:
• Full-time research with the physical presence in the campus or the designated research labs at least during the working hours of the university. 
• Scholar should not be a salaried employee.
• Scholar should not be an Industry or Institution sponsored candidate.
• Scholar should not be drawing any other scholarship or research funding.
• Annual Fee of the PhD research is Rs. 60000/- irrespective of the discipline.
• All the full-time research scholars shall be provided Rs. 30000/- as scholarship for each of the first three years on the annual fee.

Eligibility for PhD

The minimum eligibility of candidates intending to pursue a doctoral programme is a pass with a minimum of 55% in a postgraduate programme.

The selection process for PhD comprises of Entrance Examination, Research Skill Assessment and Personal Interview. *However, as per the UGC (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of M.Phil./Ph.D. Degrees) Regulations, 2016 (#5.1), those who qualify UGC-NET (including JRF) / UGC-CSIR NET (including JRF) / SLET / GATE / teacher fellowship holder (KSET, SET etc.) or have passed M.Phil Programme shall be exempted from the Entrance Examination and take only a Research Skill Assessment Test along with their Personal Interview.

Note

Candidates who have qualified UGC-NET (including JRF)/UGC-CSIR NET (including JRF)/SLET/GATE/ teacher fellowship holder (KSET, SET etc.) or have passed M.Phil Programme may apply for PhD programme online, and send the Research Proposal and CV to phd@christuniversity.in any time of the year.

For such candidates the Research Skill Assessment and Personal Interview will be held separately. Appliation is to be submited online using the current format.

*As per the UGC (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of M.Phil./Ph.D. Degrees) Regulations, 2016 (#5.1), those who qualify UGC-NET (including JRF) / UGC-CSIR NET (including JRF) / SLET / GATE / teacher fellowship holder (KSET, SET etc.) or have passed M.Phil Programme shall be exempted from the Entrance Examination and take only a Research Skill Assessment Test along with their Personal Interview.