In a statement dated May 6, the University of Hyderabad (UoH) announced its decision to use National Eligibility Test (NET) results for PhD course admissions.
The institution announced PhD admissions to 43 different courses for the academic year 2024–2025, with an intake of 355 seats. With the exception of eight courses, NET scores will be used for admission to all other programmes.
For PhD admissions to Applied Linguistics, Translation Studies, Optometry & Vision Sciences, Nano science & Technology, Materials Engineering, Regional Studies, English Language Studies, and Neural & Cognitive Science, the institution will conduct its own entrance exams.
The University of Hawaii’s decision coincides with the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) recent notification that the UGC-NET 2024 score may be substituted for entrance exams administered by other universities for PhD admission.
Some student groups, however, have denounced the announcement and said that the university’s autonomy and specialisations would be eliminated by such a move. The NET results are good for admission for a year after they are obtained. The AISA UoH unit stated in a post that notice requires taking the UGC-NET 2024 in order to be admitted to a PhD programme and “disregards” prior NET results.
The UGC-NET in the streams of computer science, management studies, humanities, and social science will be administered by the National Testing Agency (NTA).
May 10 is the deadline for applications. Similarly, applications for the NTA’s combined CSIR-UGC NET in the following streams must be submitted by May 21: chemical sciences, earth, atmospheric, ocean, and planetary sciences, life sciences, mathematical sciences, and physical sciences.
-Raja Aditya
