{"id":239287,"date":"2024-04-22T00:11:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T18:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=239287"},"modified":"2024-04-22T00:11:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T18:41:04","slug":"students-with-4-year-bachelors-degrees-75-marks-can-directly-pursue-phd-ugc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/04\/22\/students-with-4-year-bachelors-degrees-75-marks-can-directly-pursue-phd-ugc\/","title":{"rendered":"Students With 4-year Bachelor&#8217;s Degrees, 75% Marks Can Directly Pursue PhD: UGC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Delhi, 21 Apr (PTI) :Students with four-year undergraduate degrees can now directly appear for NET and pursue PhD, according to University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman Jagadesh Kumar.<br \/>\nTo pursue a PhD with or without a Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), the candidates will require a minimum of 75 per cent marks or equivalent grades in their four-year undergraduate course.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far, a candidate for the National Eligibility Test (NET) needed a master&#8217;s degree with a minimum of 55 per cent marks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The candidates with four-year undergraduate degrees can now directly pursue PhD and appear for NET. Such candidates are allowed to appear in a subject in which they want to pursue a PhD irrespective of the discipline in which they have obtained the four-year bachelor&#8217;s degree,&#8221; Kumar told PTI.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The candidates having passed a four-year or eight-semester bachelor&#8217;s degree programme should have a minimum of 75% marks in aggregate or its equivalent grade on a point scale wherever the grading system is followed,&#8221; the UGC chairman said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A relaxation of five per cent marks or its equivalent grade may be allowed for those belonging to SC, ST, OBC (non-creamy layer), differently-abled, economically weaker sections and other categories of candidates as per the decision of the UGC from time to time, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, 21 Apr (PTI) :Students with four-year undergraduate degrees can now directly appear for NET and pursue PhD, according to University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman Jagadesh Kumar. To pursue a PhD with or without a Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), the candidates will require a minimum of 75 per cent marks or equivalent grades in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-239287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}