Ph.D Humanities and Social Sciences at NIT Patna Offline Course

Candidates with the following qualification shall be eligible for admission to the Ph. D. Programme of the Institute. 

• M.  Tech./  M.E./  M.  Arch/  M.  Planning/  M. Design or equivalent degree in a relevant and related discipline, with at least 7 .5 CGPA (in the scale of 10) or 70 percent marks in aggregate from a recognized technical institute or university. Candidates  with  M.Tech/  M.E/  M.Arch/  M.  Planning  or  equivalent  degree  from  CFIs  in relevant  discipline  are  required  to  produce  a  proof  of  having  qualified  GATE/  JAM/  JEST/ CAT or equivalent national eligibility test while taking admission in the  master degree in the relevant discipline OR has valid Score in one of the national eligibility test. 
• M.  Sc./  M.  Com./  MBA/  MA or equivalent degree in relevant and related discipline with at least  6.0  CGPA  (in the scale of 10)  or  55 percent marks or equivalent in aggregate from a recognized institute or university. Candidates  with  M.  Sc./  M.  Com./  MBA/  MA  or  equivalent  degree  from  CFIs  in  relevant discipline are required to produce a proof of having qualified GATE/ JAM/ JEST/ CAT/ NET/ SLET/ JRF or equivalent national eligibility test while  taking admission in the master degree in the relevant discipline OR has valid Score in one of the national eligibility test. 
• B. Tech/ B.E./ B. Arch or equivalent degree in relevant discipline with at least 8.5 CGPA (in the scale of  10)  or  80 percent marks in aggregate from a  recognized technical institute or university, with a valid GATE/ NET/ JAM/ JEST qualifying score, is mandatory.

a. Must have passed the qualifying examination in Single attempt without any backlog or failure in any semester from IITs/ NITs/ CFTI/ SFTI or Central/ State University

b. Has not graduated earlier than one year, and holds the rank of 1  to 10 in the university from where graduated. 

c. Candidates with Graduation Degree only as per under this section shall be admitted by default under Type -I. However may opt for Type -II candidature, if admitted in dd semester of any session as persecution 2.6.

• The minimum CGPA/ marks percentage shall be relaxed by 0.5 CGPA or 5 percent in case of candidates belonging to the SC/ST categories in all cases.