PhD at School of Arts and Sciences

Selection Process

The candidates will be shortlisted based on the eligibility criteria mentioned above. Applications not meeting the eligibility criteria and/or incomplete applications will be summarily rejected. Please note that all the candidates meeting the minimum eligibility criteria may NOT be shortlisted.

Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Sciences

• Based on the information submitted through the application portal, candidates will be shortlisted for a written exam. Those who are successful in the written exam will be selected for an interview.
• Shortlisted candidates who have successfully passed the UGC-NET (JRF) exam will directly appear for the interview.
• The written exam will be one hour long and will involve writing a short original reflection (800-1000 words) in response to a prompt on a general theme or issue. There is no specific syllabus or list of topics to be covered. It will be administered via Google form. All written responses will be checked for plagiarism, and anyone found to have plagiarised will be automatically disqualified from the selection process.

Mathematical and Computational Sciences

• Students will be shortlisted based on their qualifications and performance in national-level or standardised tests (such as CSIR/UGC, NBHM, DBT, DST INSPIRE, JEST, GATE, GRE Subject Test, etc.)

Life Sciences

• Shortlisted candidates will be called for a written test, and those qualifying will be requested to appear for an interview.
• Candidates with national level fellowships/certificates such as UGC-NET(JRF) /CSIR/ICMR/DBT/DST INSPIRE/ (with 90 percentile or above in GATE/JEST) will be exempted from the written test and be required to appear directly for an interview. Only shortlisted candidates will be called for an interview. No TA/DA will be provided to candidates for appearing in the interview.

Physics

• The candidates who have qualified CSIR-UGC NET (JRF)/GATE/JEST/ (with 90 percentile or above in GATE/JEST) will be exempted from the written test and will be directly called for the interview. Only shortlisted candidates based on their performance in the national level PhD entrance tests / written test will be called for an interview. No TA/DA will be provided to the candidates for appearing in the interview.

Fees and Financial Aid

Ahmedabad University awards full tuition fee waiver and financial support to full-time doctoral students. The financial support could be in the form of a University Assistantship or University Fellowship or from sponsored projects. We offer University Assistantships at INR 40,000 per month plus tuition fee waiver and University Fellowships at INR 50,000 per month plus tuition fee waiver.

Fellowship is available for five years based on satisfactory performance.

The Tuition Fee for part-time doctoral students of Physics, Mathematical and Computational Sciences, and Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Sciences is INR 24,000 per semester, and for part-time doctoral students of Biological and Life Sciences is INR 31,500 per semester.