Applications open for PhD courses at IIST Thiruvananthapuram

Applications open for PhD courses at IIST Thiruvananthapuram

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New Delhi, Updated on Nov 29, 2021 13:07 IST

The institute will conduct online screening tests on December 22, 2021. Eligible candidates can apply by visiting the following link, www.iist.ac.in/admissions/phd/regular. 

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The Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) Thiruvananthapuram has invited applications for its PhD programmes for the January 2022 session. The institute will be conducting online screening tests, which are scheduled to be held on December 22, 2021. The applications are offered for PhD in aerospace engineering, avionics, chemistry, earth and space sciences, mathematics and physics. Eligible candidates can apply by visiting the following link, https://www.iist.ac.in/admissions/phd/regular. 

Those selected will receive a monthly fellowship of INR 31,000. The last date for submission of online applications for IIST Funded and IIT Palakkad IHub Foundation (IPTIF) Doctoral Fellowships is December 13, 2021. The deadline for submission of online applications (external fellowships) is December 20, 2021. 

Eligibility criteria 

Applicants with a master’s degree in engineering technology, science, humanities, management or social sciences are eligible to apply to the respective departments. They must have pursued their Master’s degree on the basis of qualified GATE score.  However there is no GATE cut off score for applicants with MTech./ME as the highest qualifying degree, who are applying for PhD in engineering discipline. Applicants with master of science in engineering or equivalent from leading foreign Universities with minimum CGPA 8/10 or 3.6 /4 or equivalent can be considered without GATE score.  For candidates with ME/MTech.as their highest qualifying degree, selection to the PhD programme will be based on online screening test followed by an interview. Interview will be conducted through video-conference mode. However, candidates with a valid CSIR/NET-JRF or lectureship post their ME/MTech, will be directly called for the interview through Video Conference mode. 

Candidates, who have been provided research fellowships by State Government Science and Technology Scheme/DST-INSPIRE etc, are eligible to apply If they have already cleared a national-level eligibility test, such as a valid UGC-CSIR-NET lectureship or JEST/GATE. A valid GATE score of minimum 500 for General Category (450 for OBC / EWS and 350 for SC/ST/PD categories) in a Science discipline or valid JEST rank within the first 300 is required.  

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