IIST Admission for Ph.D. Programme in Thiruvananthapuram
Ph.D. Programme
Job Description
Advt. No. IIST/Admn/RMT/Ph.D./05/2016
IIST Ph.D. Programme – July 2016 for Masters and Bachelors Degree holders
Areas : Aerospace Engineering, Avionics, Earth and Space Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Humanities.
1. Applicants with Master’s Degree in Engineering/Technology: Candidate must have secured first class or equivalent in the Master’s degree. They must have pursued their Master’s degree on the basis of qualified GATE score. Applicants with MS in Engineering or equivalent from leading foreign Universities with outstanding academic record (or) MS by Research with outstanding academic record can be considered without GATE. Applicants with Integrated Masters degree (or Dual Degree) in Engg/Tech from IITs and IISc with minimum CGPA 9.0/10 can be considered without GATE.
Applicants with Master’s Degree in Science: Applicants must have Master’s Degree in the relevant area with first class or equivalent in their Master’s degree. They must have qualified UGC/CSIR NET/JEST (or) GATE in the relevant disciplines.
Applicants with Master’s Degree in Humanities: Applicants must have Master’s Degree in the relevant area with first class or equivalent in their Master’s degrees. They must have qualified UGC NET -JRF in the relevant disciplines.
Applicants with Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering/Technology : Outstanding applicants with Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with an excellent academic record and aptitude for research may be considered for direct admission to the Ph.D. Programme. Such applicants must have secured CGPA of 9.0/10 or better and a valid GATE score of 675 or better. B. Tech students from IITs with CGPA better than 9.0/10 do not require GATE.
Age Limit: 28 years as on June 13, 2016
Research fellowship: Research Fellowships are as follows: For GATE and UGC/CSIR NET-JRF/JEST qualified students – Rs.25,000/- per month For UGC-NET Lectureship students – Rs.12,000/- per month
Application Fee: Application fee is to the extent of Rs. 250/- per Department code (for SC/ST/PWD and Women applicants - Rs.125/- per Department code). If the applicant is eligible and wishes to apply for more than one Department code, he/she has to submit the application and application fee for the respective Department codes separately. The application fee is nonrefundable.
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IIST is Asia’s first Space Institute and the first in the world to offer the complete range of undergraduate, post graduate, doctoral programmes with specific focus to space science, technology and applications. This unique concept took root in January 2007, when IIST was registered as a Society under the Travancore -Cochin Literary, Scientific and Charitable Societies Registration Act, 1955. IIST received the approval of the Union Cabinet on 26 April, 2007 and it was formally inaugurated on 14 September 2007 by Dr. G. Madhavan Nair. In a little less than a year of its establishment, IIST received the recognition of UGC as a Deemed University under Section 3 of UGC Act, 1956.
