How to become an assistant professor in India's top reputed institutes?
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Hello Rini,
UGC NET exam is conducted for Eligibility for Assistant Professor only or Junior Research Fellowship & Eligibility for Assistant Professor both.
UGC NET 2018 december session exam will be conducted by NTA. UGC NET 2018 exam for the december session will be conducted between December 9 to 23, in onlime mode.
Candidates can apply for this exam after completing Master's degree from any recognized Institute. Also, they need to score 55% marks in the Master's degree (5% relaxation for reserved category).
You can go through the link below for detailed information about the UGC NET exam-
https://competition.careers360.com/articles/ugc-net-2018
Hope this helps.
Good Luck!
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As you want to become an Assistant Professor, you can apply for UGC NET & CSIR NET Exam. There are the most famous and toughest entrance exam for the lectureship.
UGC NET is conducted by CBSE for those students who want to make their career in research field and lectureship.
And the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) conducts the CSIR NET exam on the bi-yearly basis for science stream students only to examine the knowledge required for holding the position of Lecturers/professors/ associates/ research fellows
By qualifying these you can easily appoint as an assistant professor in India’s top reputed universities which are approved by UGC.
But to appear in these exams for lectureship, you should have masters’ degree with minimum 55% aggregate marks.
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