Applications for PhD Admission Spring 2021 open at Tezpur University, Assam
Are you looking for admission to a PhD programme from a reputed institute in India? Tezpur University, Assam has announced official notification and called applications from eligible candidates for admission in PhD programmes for Spring 2021. Read this article to know the details of PhD programmes of TU Assam, eligibility conditions, application and selection procedure, etc.
About TU
Tezpur University in Napaam, Assam, spread over an area of 262 acres, is a residential Central University. The campus building is well-maintained, and the staff is also engaging that makes the campus lively. The vision of the TU is to inculcate leadership through hard work and creativity. Currently, the University is offering PhD (17 disciplines), Masters programmes(23 disciplines), Postgraduate Diploma(3 disciplines), B.Tech (6 disciplines), Certificate programmes (3 disciplines) and several integrated courses. The University offers some add-on courses on Yoga, Food Processing and Renewable Energy, etc.Details of PhD Programmes Available on TU
1. Department of Business Administration
Eligibility Criteria: The candidate must hold a master's degree such as MA (Economics) or MA (Psychology) or MA (Sociology) or MA (Social Work) or MA (Cultural Studies) or MBA or MCA or M.Com or M.Sc.(Economics) or Master of Tourism Management (MTM) or Masters of Tourism Administration (MTA) or FCA or FCS or FICWA.
Research Areas: The candidate can select any of the research areas from the following: Accounting, Advertising, Business Optimization, Change Management, Community Based Tourism, Consumer Behavior, Entrepreneurship Development, Financial Management, General Management, Human Resource Management, Intellectual Property Right, Organization Behavior, Operations, Quality, Operation in Tourism, Rural Development, Supply Chain Management and Taxation/Tourism Marketing.
2. Department of Civil Engineering
Eligibility Criteria: The candidates who wish to get admission in PhD (Civil Engineering) must hold a degree in ME (Civil Engineering) or M.Tech (Civil Engineering) or M.Sc.(Civil Engineering) or any allied areas. The candidates having M.Sc. must secure at least 70 per cent marks or equivalent CGPA and BE / B.Tech with 75% marks in aggregate or equivalent CGPA. They must have a valid GATE score. They must have obtained a minimum of two recommendation letters from their Institute/University.
Research Areas: Research areas available PhD in Department of Civil Engineering are Environmental Engineering and Geotechnical Engineering.
3. Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Eligibility Criteria: The candidate must have a degree in M.Tech. (Computer Science) or M.Tech. (IT) or M.Tech. (Electronics) or MCA or M.Sc. (Computer Science) or M.Sc. (IT). The candidates must have secured at least 75 per cent marks in aggregate in BE/B.Tech or equivalent CGPA. They must have a valid GATE score. They must have obtained a minimum of two recommendation letters from their Institute/University.
Research Areas: Algorithms, Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics & Network Security, Computational Biology, Cognitive Radio Networks, Data Mining, Data Science, 5G, Image Processing, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Network Security, Pattern Recognition, Remote Sensing Image, Resource Allocation in CRN, Software Define Network, Speech Processing, Trust & Reputation and Wireless Networks.
4. Department of Cultural Studies
Eligibility Criteria: The candidate must have a degree in MA (Humanities) or MA (Social Sciences) or any other relevant disciplines. They must have a uniformly good academic career. Candidates with UGC-JRF, UGC-NET or NE SET will be given preference.
Research Areas: The candidate can do a PhD in Popular Culture, Media & Culture.
5. Department of Electrical Engineering
Eligibility Criteria: The candidates who wish to get admission in PhD (Electrical Engineering) must have a degree in ME (Electrical Engineering) or ME (Electronics) or ME (Communication) or ME (Power System) or ME (Power Electronics) or ME (Instrumentation) or ME (Control System) or ME (Computer Science & Engineering) or M.Tech (Electrical Engineering) or M.Tech (Electronics) or M.Tech (Communication) or M.Tech (Power System) or M.Tech (Power Electronics) or M.Tech (Instrumentation) or M.Tech (Control System) or M.Tech (Computer Science & Engineering) or MS (Electrical Engineering) or MS (Electronics) or MS (Communication) or MS (Power System) or MS (Power Electronics) or MS (Instrumentation) or MS (Control System) or MS (Computer Science & Engineering) or MBBS with MD/MS or any other related areas. The candidates must have secured at least 75 per cent marks in aggregate in BE/B.Tech or equivalent CGPA. They must have a valid GATE score. They must have obtained a minimum of two recommendation letters from their Institute/University.
Research Areas: PhD research areas available are biomedical applications, chaos, control system, wastewater management.
6. Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering
Eligibility Criteria: The candidate must hold a degree in ME (Electronics) or ME (Communication) or ME (Electronics Design) ME (Electrical Engineering) ME (Instrumentation) or ME (Control) or ME (Microwave) or ME (Biomedical Engineering) or ME (Bioelectronics) or ME (Biotechnology) or ME (Computer Science) or ME (Information Technology) or M.Tech. (Electronics) or M.Tech. (Communication) or M.Tech. (Electronics Design) or M.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) or M.Tech. (Instrumentation) or M.Tech. (Control) or M.Tech. (Microwave) or M.Tech. (Biomedical Engineering) or M.Tech. (Bioelectronics) or M.Tech. (Biotechnology) or M.Tech. (Computer Science) or M.Tech. (Information Technology) or MS (Electronics) or MS (Communication) or MS (Electronics Design) or MS (Electrical Engineering) or MS (Instrumentation) or MS (Control) or MS (Microwave) or MS (Biomedical Engineering) or MS (Bioelectronics) or MS (Biotechnology) or MS (Computer Science) or MS (Information Technology) or M.Sc. (Engineering) or M.Sc.(Electronics) or M.Sc. (Physics) or M.Sc. (Applied Mathematics) or MCA with B.Sc. (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) degree or MBBS with MD/ MS degree. The candidates must have secured at least 75 per cent marks in aggregate in BE/B.Tech or equivalent CGPA. They must have a valid GATE score. They must have obtained a minimum of two recommendation letters from their Institute/University.
Research Areas: The candidate can select any of the research areas: Computer vision & Deep learning for signal, Image Processing, Image Analysis, Robotics.
7. Department of Energy
Eligibility Criteria: The candidate should have passed M.Sc. / M.E. / M.Tech. degree in Energy Technology or Energy Management or Energy related Engineering and Technology or Physics or Chemistry or Agriculture Allied subjects.
Research Areas: PhD research areas include Bioenergy and Biofuels, Energy –Environment interaction, Biomass Gasification, Building Energy and Thermal Comfort, Fuel Cell, Graphene, Grid Integrated System, Heat Transfer, Hybrid Energy Systems, Hydrogen Energy, Instrumentation & Control, Nanofluids, Photovoltaic Systems, RAC, Renewable Energy and Solar Photovoltaics system.
8. Department of Environmental Science
Eligibility Criteria: The candidate should have passed Masters in any Science or Applied Science or Engineering discipline from any recognised university and must obtain a minimum of 55 per cent marks or equivalent CGPA. The candidate must have attended a Science or Technology programme at Bachelor's level.
Research Areas: Research areas available in Department of Environmental Science are Air pollution, Application of RS & GIS in atmospheric, hydro-geomorphic studies, Botanicals as pesticides, Carbon Sequestration and CHG emission from agricultural and forest, Climate impact modelling, Ecology, Ecohydrology, Ecosystem, Fluvial Geomorphology, Human-environment interactions, Indoor air pollution, Insect-plant interactions-ecology, Meteorology, Noise pollution and deep learning, Nanotechnology in Environmental Research, Plant stress physiology, Riverine hazards and Water and sediment geochemistry environmental pollution.
9. Department of Mathematical Sciences
Eligibility Criteria: The candidate must possess an MA ( Mathematics) or M.Sc(Mathematics) or MA (Statistics) or M.Sc. (Statistics).
Research Areas: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Harmonic Analysis, Nonparametric Statistics.
10. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Eligibility Criteria: The candidate must hold a degree in ME (Mechanical Engineering), M.Tech (Mechanical Engineering), M.Sc. (Engineering) in Mechanical Engineering or allied areas. The candidates must have secured at least 75 per cent marks in aggregate in BE/B.Tech or equivalent CGPA. They must have a valid GATE score. They must have obtained a minimum of two recommendation letters from their Institute/University.
Research Areas: Following research areas are available for PhD: CAD-CAM, Computational Material Science, Creep and High-Temperature Deformation Behavior, Design/Optimization, Failure Analysis, Materials Engineering and Manufacturing, Mechatronics, Mechanical Metallurgy, Microalloying, Microstructural Characterization, Soft computing, System Design, Thermo-Mechanical Processing, Tribology, 3D printing Technology.
11. Department of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology
Eligibility Criteria: The candidates must have a master's degree in any branches of Life Sciences or Physical Sciences or Chemical Sciences or Mathematical Sciences or Agricultural Sciences or Veterinary Sciences or Engineering Sciences or Medical Sciences or any allied field. The candidates must have secured at least 80 per cent marks in aggregate in BE/B.Tech or equivalent CGPA. They must have a valid GATE score (> 90.00 percentile). They must have a good academic record.
Research Areas: PhD can be done in the following research areas: Biochemistry with specialization to meditation, asana and food, Biological waste management, Bioinformatics, Cancer Biology, Computational Biology, DNA structure & promoter engineering, Inflammation Bioinformatics, Microbial Biofilm, Molecular Plant-microbe interactions, Molecular Virology and Systems biology.
12. Department of Physics
Eligibility Criteria: Candidate should have passed M.Sc. (Physics) or M.Sc./M.Tech (Electronics) or M.Sc./M.Tech (Geophysics) or M.Sc./M.Tech (Material Science) or M.Sc./M.Tech (Applied Mathematics) or M.Sc./M.Tech (Nanoscience and Technology) or M.Sc./M.Tech (Biotechnology) or M.Sc./M.Tech (Environmental Science) or M.Sc./M.Tech (Chemical Science). M.Phil., M.Tech. (Solid State Material). The candidates must secured at least 80 per cent marks in aggregate in BE/B.Tech or equivalent CGPA.
Research Areas: Research areas for PhD are Applied photonics, Astroparticle Physics, Biomedical instrumentation High Energy Physics, Nanoscience, Neutrino Physics, Plasma Physics, and Soft Matter.
13. Department of Sociology
Eligibility Criteria: The candidate must hold a post-graduate degree in Sociology or Cultural Studies or Anthropology (Specialization Social Anthropology) or Economics or History or Political Science or Philosophy or Mass Communication or English or Law or Management or Social Work.
Research Areas: Available research areas for PhD are Agrarian Studies, Marginality Studies, Northeast India Studies, Social Movements, Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Science, and Tribal Studies.The Fee Structure for PhD Programme (Categories wise)
A. Total fee to be paid by the students of the Department of Chemical Sciences, MBBT, FET, Environmental Sciences at the time of admission
B. Total fee to be paid by the students of other departments at the time of admission How to Apply
The candidates who want to get admission in the PhD programme of Tezpur University must visit the official website of Tezpur University and are required to read all the instructions carefully before applying. Candidates must apply for PhD courses online through the official website. The candidates are required to pay an application fee along with the application form. Fee details are as follows:
Note: Application fee payment is to be done online through Debit /Credit card or NET-banking only. Selection Procedure
Selection for the PhD programmes will be based on the candidate's performance in the personal interview. Personal interviews will be conducted through online mode by each department separately. Seat reservation and relaxation of marks will be as per Govt. of India norms. Key Dates
Closing date of online applications submission: January 28, 2021
Date of publication of a list of eligible candidates for personal interview: February 04, 2021
Date of a personal interview in the concerned department: February 10-14, 2021
Release of the list of selected candidates: February 22, 2021
Date of provisional admission and fee submission: February 23-25, 2021Contact Information
Tezpur University
Napaam, Tezpur, Assam 784028
Phone: 03712 267 008
Email: anamikapegu@tezu.ernet.in
Official WEbsite: http://www.tezuadmissions.in
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Official Notification: http://www.tezu.ernet.in/academic/2021/January/ADVT_PhD_SP_21.pdf