IIA conducts the following two graduate programmes leading to Ph.D. degrees:

• Ph.D., jointly with Pondicherry Central University, (M.Sc., Integrated M.Sc./M.E./M.Tech.) and
• Integrated M.Tech. - Ph.D., jointly with University of Calcutta (B.E./B.Tech).

Applications are invited from highly motivated students who expect to complete their degrees by June 2017 with a consistently good academic record.

IIA Screening Test (IIAST) for admission to Academic Programmes is normally held every year in the month of December at centres distributed over different parts of India. This year the test will be held on Saturday, 10th December 2016. The online application will open on 5th October, 2016. Candidates short listed based on their performance in the IIAST will be called for personal interview in IIA, Bangalore. Personal interviews for the Ph.D. programme will be held in the first week of January 2017, and that for the M.Tech-Ph.D. programme (conducted jointly with University of Calcutta) will be held during May 2017.

Educational qualification:

All the candidates interested in taking admission need to possess a degree in Master of Science (MSc) (Physics) / Integrated MSc (Physics) / Bachelor of Engineering (BE)/ BTech/ ME/ MTech with 55 per cent in aggregate from a recognised university / institute.

For more details, all the candidates can check the official notification available on the website, http://www.iiap.res.in/

Selection of candidates will be based on the performance in their IIA Screening Test (IIAST/JEST/GATE/UGC-CSIR-NET) conducted by the institute.

Candidates short listed based on their performance in the IIAST will be called for personal interview round.

Event	Date
Last date to apply online	October 28th, 2016, Friday
Date of IIAST	December 10th, 2016, Saturday
Declaration of result	December 20th, 2016, Tuesday
The interview for PhD will be held in	1st week of January 2017
The interview for M.Tech PhD will be held in	May 2017