UGC Part-Time PhD Program for Working Professionals; Check Eligibility Here

New Delhi: UGC is considering starting part-time PhD programmes for working professionals. The program will be in tune with the system followed by the IITs. 

Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar, chairman of UGC said that these programmes are offered by the top universities in the world and are also common in IITs. The UGC draft regulations on PhD might include provisions for these part-time programmes, as per the report.

Mr Kumar has said, “In part-time PhD programmes, a University faculty member supervises a PhD student, who works on his or her subject in consultation with the supervisor, but largely independently. Such part-time PhD programmes are available in some of the best universities across the globe. Why not in our Indian universities?”

UGC Part-Time PhD Program for Working Professionals: Highlights 

As per the UGC chairman those students will have to complete coursework requirements during the first and second semester of the course. They can initially attend classes on campus if they are living in the same city as the university and resume their work without residing on campus.

UGC Part-Time PhD Program for Working Professionals: Eligibility Criteria 

The eligibility criteria for the part-time PhD programmes are likely to be similar to full-time programmes, as per the report. The report said that in order to study in these programmes, the working professionals will have to produce a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from their organizations. 

Kumar further states that “Such part-time PhD programmes are very useful to professionals who cannot take long leave for doing PhD.”

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