UoH adopts NET for PhD admissions

The University of Hyderabad (UoH) has decided to adopt National Eligibility Test (NET) scores for admissions to PhD programmes offered by it and issued a notification to this effect on May 6.

With an intake of 355 seats, the university announced PhD admissions to 43 different courses for the academic year 2024-25. Except for eight programmes, the admissions in other programmes will be via the NET scores.

The university will hold its own entrance tests 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 UoH decision comes as the University Grants Commission (UGC) recently notified that the UGC-NET 2024 score can be used for PhD admission in place of



entrance tests conducted by different universities.

However, some student organisations have condemned the notification and said such a decision would kill specializations and autonomy of the university. The NET scores are valid for admission for a period of one year. In a post, the AISA UoH unit claimed that notification mandates taking up the UGC-NET 2024 for PhD admission and “disregards” previous NET scores.

The National Testing Agency (NTA) will be holding the UGC-NET in Social Science, Humanities, Management Studies and Computer Science streams.

The last date to apply is May 10. Likewise, the NTA will hold joint CSIR-UGC NET June 2024 in streams – chemical sciences, earth, atmospheric ocean and planetary sciences, life sciences, mathematical sciences and physical sciences and the deadline to submit application is May 21.