Presidency University: Admission to Ph.D. Programme for the session 2025-2026 (Even)

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Presidency University

Kolkata, West Bengal

Admission to Ph.D. Programme for the session 2025-2026 (Even)

Presidency University
Kolkata, West Bengal
Admission to Ph.D. Programme for the session 2025-2026 (Even)

Online Applications are invited from UGC or UGC-CSIR NET qualified candidates for admission to the Ph.D. Programme of Presidency University in various departments/school/institute for the session 2025-2026 (Even). Only completed online applications will be considered. Applicants are required to pay Rs. 500/- (non-refundable) as application fee after submission of online form within stipulated date.
No application will be considered without payment of Application Fee.

Essential qualification

Candidates for admission to the Ph.D. program shall have a Master’s degree with at least 55% of marks in aggregate or its equivalent grade.
A relaxation of 5% of marks or an equivalent relaxation of grade may be allowed for those belonging to SC/ST Person with Disability (PwD) as per UGC guidelines.
UGC or UGC-CSIR NET qualified with valid NET certificate. The marks obtained in the NET by the candidates in Category 2 (LS & PhD) and Category 3 (PhD only) will be valid for a period of one year for admission to Ph.D.

Application Procedure

Application form will be available in http://14.139.217.88/. Interested candidates are required to fill up the online application form. Application number will be generated after completion of online application. Use the system generated application number to pay the non-refundable application fee of Rs. 500/- (and applicable bank charges) in SBI Collect Portal. Application Form will be generated after 2-3 working days from the date of payment. Send/drop the Application form along with mark-sheets/grade-cards, certificates and synopsis and copy of the Payment Receipt to the following address:
To
The Secretary, Faculty Councils,
Presidency University,
86/1, College Street, Kolkata-700073.
No application will be considered without payment of non-refundable application fee.

Important Dates

Start date for applying online	15/12/2025
Start date for online payment	15/12/2025
Last date for applying online	29/12/2025 (till 12:00 Noon)
Last date for online payment	29/12/2025 (till 12:00 Noon)
Last Date for receiving Hardcopy of the application	05/01/2026 (till 03:00 P.M.)
Interview/test schedule	Will be informed by the Department

Provisional Seat Matrix

Department wise and category wise availability of seats are given below. Reservation of seats for Person with Disability (PwD) will be as per Department of Higher Education (University branch), Government of West Bengal order no 1084(20)-Edn(U)/EH/1U-89/13 dated 7th December, 2018. PwD seats are included in the total number of seats in respective department/School/Institute.

Sl. No.	Department / School / Institute Name	Category wise vacancy list
Sl. No.	Department / School / Institute Name	UR	SC	ST	OBC-A	OBC-B	EWS	Total
1	Chemistry	10	08	03	03	0	05	29
2	Physics	22	09	03	06	03	06	49
3	Life Sciences	12	05	02	04	03	01	27
4	Mathematics	11	06	01	03	03	03	27
5	Statistics	02	02	01	01	01	01	08
6	Economics	03	02	01	01	01	01	09
7	Hindi	01	0	0	0	0	01	02
8	Philosophy	03	0	0	0	0	02	05
9	Geology	08	04	01	01	01	01	16
10	Geography	05	02	02	02	02	04	17
11	Astrophysics	01	03	01	0	0	01	06
12	Institute of Health Sciences	05	03	01	01	02	01	13
13	Bengali	01	02	0	0	01	0	04

Available Research Areas

Department / School / Institute Name	Available Research Areas **
Hindi	Open
Bengali	a) Open - 02 b) Drama - 01 c) Translation - 01
Institute of Health Sciences	a) Neurobiology and Epigenetics (1) b) Plant Molecular biology (2) c) Leukemia Biology & Epigenetics (1) d) Infectious disease and immunology (1) e) Nanomedicine & Biomedical Imaging (1) f) Molecular Endocrinology and Cancer Biology (1) g) Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry (2) h) Nanobiotechnology (1) i) Molecular biology of targeted therapy in breast cancer (1) j) Micro-RNA modulation in cervical cancer (1) k) Micro-nutrient homeostasis in crop plants (1)
Philosophy	a) Ethics b) Issues of Justice c) Logic d) Applied Ethics e) Practical ethics f) Medical Ethics g) Environmental Ethics
Chemistry	a) Organic Chemistry b) Inorganic Chemistry c) Physical Chemistry d) Energy Storage e) Environmental Chemistry f) Material Science
Statistics	Candidates must have NET in Mathematical Sciences / Statistics / Population Studies.
Astrophysics	a) Cosmic Microwave Background b) Large Scale Structure c) Galaxy Evolution d) Numerical Simulations e) Active Galaxies f) Multiwavelength Astronomy g) High Energy Astrophysics
Geology	a) Invertebrate Palaeontology and sedimentary geochemistry. b) Sedimentology c) Structural Geology and Tectonics d) Planetary Geology e) Hydrogeology f) Geophysics g) Quaternary Geology h) Geochemistry i) Environmental Geology j) Ore Geology k) Organic Biogeochemistry l) Carbon sequestration
Physics	a) Nuclear reactions b) Gravitation c) Quantum optics d) Material science
Mathematics	a) Functional Analysis and operator Algebra-3 b) Geometric and Analytic Group Theory ( desired prerequisites – an exposure to differential geometry and algebraic topology) -3 c) Optimization Techniques and Operations Research – 4 d) Mathematical Physics (applications to relativity and cosmology -- requires ODE, PDE, Classical Mechanics, Numerical Analysis, Geometry, etc)-4 e) Lie Algebra and Representation Theory - 2 f) Mathematical biology-2 g) Mathematical Analysis and Fractal Geometry-2 h) Complex Analysis & Holomorphic Dynamics-2 i) Rings of Continuous Functions-2 j) Nonlinear Dynamics -3
Economics	Open
Life Sciences	a) Impact of heavy metal exposure on pathogenesis of noncommunicable diseases (2) b) Crop improvement via Genome editing and Transgenics (1) c) Biochemical and biophysical characterization of photoswitchable transcription factors/ DNA- repair enzymes for applications in optogenetics and synthetic biology (3) d) Computational Biology, Bioinformatics (3) e) Neurophysiology (1) f) Airborne pollution related inflammation Biology (1) g) Cancer immunology, Cancer cell signalling & therapeutics (3) h) Molecular Phyto PathoGenesis : Biotechnologial Strategies for Enhancing Crop Disease Resistance, Biocontrol of Plant Pathogens (2) i) Collective cell migration, Drosophila (2) j) Molecular endocrinology and reproductive physiology and reproductive disorders (3) k) Microbiology (1) l) Eco-toxicology, ecological modelling of marine ecosystem under projected climate change scenario, Marine biotechnology (2) m) Integrative Proteogenomic and Chronobiological Mechanisms in Cancer Progression (3)
Geography	a) Geography of Tourism b) Geomorphology c) Climatology d) Pedology e) River Dynamics f) Natural Hazard g) Tectonics h) Lake/ reservoir sedimentation and sediment connectivity i) Urban Rivers j) Urban water logging and water governance k) Thunderstorms, drought and ground water stress l) Water resource management m) Sustainable development n) Environment o) Political Geography

** Note: Number and/or Category, mentioned within parenthesis against any research area, represents number of vacancy under the specified category (if any) for the specified research area.

Selection Procedure

All applicants are required to submit a research proposal within 500 words. Applicants may be shortlisted by the department/school/institute based on the research proposals/area of availability of guide in the proposed research areas and other academic criteria. All eligible candidates will have to appear at test and interview/interview, conducted by the Departmental Ph.D. Selection Committees of the University following the UGC guidelines. In interview, the candidates will be expected to discuss their research interests. Following the selection procedure, a list of qualified candidates will be published and displayed by the University through the official website. Candidates selected for the Ph.D. Programme will be attached to the respective Department/School/Institute at the time of their provisional admission and will be required to enroll on payment of a nonrefundable fee, determined by the University.

CONTACT
The Secretary, Faculty Councils,
Presidency University,
86/1, College Street,
Kolkata - 700073.
puadmission@presiuniv.ac.in

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