Ph.D Humanities and Social Sciences at IISER Pune Offline Course

1. The applicant should have a minimum of 60% aggregate marks or CGPA of 6 on of a 10-point scale (55% or equivalent CGPA in aggregate for SC, ST and PD candidates) in their master’s (MA/MSc/MPhil/BS-MS) Degree, in subjects covering Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences including but not limited to Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, History, Archaeology, Philosophy and allied disciplines and interdisciplinary areas. Applicants from Architecture, Engineering/Technology, and Medicine are eligible after a Bachelor’s degree (minimum four years).

Additionally, the candidate MUST have qualified in any ONE of the following exams with any science or humanities/social sciences subject:

• National Eligibility Test (NET) with valid* CSIR-JRF / UGC-JRF or equivalent
• CSIR-UGC NET-LS NET-PhD Eligibility or equivalent (from examination conducted during the year 2024 and 2025)
• NBHM/GATE with a valid score

OR

2. BS-MS/Masters students from any of the Institutes of National Importance with major in one of the subjects mentioned above with a CGPA 8 or above on a 10-point scale are exempted from national-level test eligibility criteria.