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I m a student of Physics Bsc. After completing Bsc, If I continue Msc in environmental science or ma in other subjects, Can I appear UGC NET for assistant Professor?


Apurba Mullick 4th Mar, 2022
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ADITYA KUMAR Student Expert 4th Mar, 2022

Hi

Yes, with Msc environmental science or even ma in any course or any post graduation, you will be eligible for UGC NET and after clearing it, you can be an assistant professor, all you need is to have at least 55% marks in your Post graduation to be eligible for UGC NET

For your reference,

UGC NET eligibility criteria  is given below :-


---------) You need at least  55% marks in your master or equivalent degree ( 50 % marks for

OBC/ST/SC/PWD/Transgender).

---------) Those who  are currently in the final year of their Master's degree are also provisionally eligible for UGC NET provided that they must fulfil above educational requirements  within two years.


--------)Age limit :-

Post

age limit for the post

Junior Research Fellow

31 years

Assistant professor

no age limit is there


Age relaxation

Category

Age relaxation

SC/ST/OBC (non-creamy layer)/Female/Transgender/Ex Armyman/Research candidates

5 years

pursuing LLM degree

3 years

†††††† IMPORTANT NOTE

While applying for UGC NET you need to select the test for the subject which have studied in your post-graduation. In case if your post graduation  subject  is not given in the list , then you  can choose the relevant subject from the list as per your preference. The subject list is attached as Annexure-IV in the information brochure . The Annexure-IV is on the page number 34 on official information brochure, which you can download by going through the link provided below

https://ugcnet.nta.nic.in/webinfo/File/GetFile?FileId=56&LangId=P


For detailed eligibility criteria, you can visit our page the link for which is provided below:-


https://competition.careers360.com/articles/ugc-net-eligibility-criteria


Thank you

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