Ph.D. Research

CSIR offers Junior and Senior Research Fellowships (JRFs and SRFs) to enable students to pursue a Ph.D. degree. Students in the Science Disciplines can qualify for these fellowships via the CSIR examinations – these are national examinations held twice a year and are announced in all the major newspapers including “Employment News”.  For queries regarding these fellowships or the CSIR examination, please contact Dr. R.A. Kulkarni (Co-ordinator, CSIR - UGC SRF Exam Unit, Polymer Science and Engineering division, NCL, Pune - 411008).  For engineering students, qualification for the JRF is via GATE.  NCL scientists offer collaborative doctoral projects with faculty at ICT, Mumbai and IIT, Mumbai and selection of Engineering-JRFs is done at these centers.  Engineering students with a Bachelors degree and a valid GATE score are eligible to apply for an Engineering-JRF, while students having an M.E. or M.Tech. should apply for an SRF.  Students have to qualify for award of either a JRF or an SRF to work towards their doctoral degree at NCL.

In order to pursue research at NCL as a doctoral student, you need to 1) Qualify for fellowships/ scholarships from the CSIR, UGC, DBT or ICMR and 2) Decide a subject and find a research advisor of interest to you. For admission to the Ph.D. programme, NCL invites applications twice a year normally after the result of CSIR - UGC Net examination. Before registering for Ph.D degree the student has to undergo the rigorous course work. Click Here to download guidelines to Ph.D admission.