NET UGC and JRF Difference

Please provide me information about Difference between NET UGC and Junior research fellowship examination ?

[Kiran Chandar]

Here I am giving you information about Difference between NET UGC and Junior research fellowship examination.

NET stands for National Education Testing (NET) Bureau and JRF stands for Junior Research Fellowship.
You can get admission in PHD programs after passing UGC NET examination. On other side you can apply for post of Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) after passing UGC NET exam.

For candidates who desire to pursue research, the Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) is available for five years subject to fulfillment of certain conditions.

UGC NET subjects :
Subject Code Name of the Subject

01 Economics
02 Political Science
03 Philosophy
04 Psychology
05 Sociology
06 History
07 Anthropology
08 Commerce
09 Education
10 Social Work
11 Defence and Strategic Studies
12 Home Science
14 Public Administration
15 Population Studies
16 Music
17 Management
18 Maithili
19 Bengali
20 Hindi
21 Kannada
22 Malayalam
23 Odia
24 Punjabi
25 Sanskrit
26 Tamil
27 Telugu
28 Urdu
29 Arabic
30 English
31 Linguistics
32 Chinese
33 Dogri
34 Nepali
35 Manipuri
36 Assamese
37 Gujarati
38 Marathi
39 French
40 Spanish
41 Russian
42 Persian
43 Rajasthani
44 German
45 Japanese
46 Adult Education/ Continuing Education/ Andragogy/ Non Formal Education
47 Physical Education
49 Arab Culture and Islamic Studies
50 Indian Culture
55 Labour Welfare/Personnel Management/Industrial Relations/ Labour and Social Welfare/Human Resource Management
58 Law
59 Library and Information Science
60 Buddhist, Jaina, Gandhian and Peace Studies
62 Comparative Study of Religions
63 Mass Communication and Journalism
65 Performing Arts – Dance/Drama/Theatre
66 Museology & Conservation
67 Archaeology
68 Criminology
70 Tribal and Regional Language/Literature
71 Folk Literature
72 Comparative Literature
73 Sanskrit Traditional Subjects (including Jyotisha/Sidhanta Jyotisha/ Navya Vyakarna/ Vyakarna/ Mimamsa/ Navya Nyaya/ Sankhya Yoga/ Tulanatmaka Darsana/ Shukla Yajurveda/ Madhva Vedanta/ Dharma Sastra/ Sahitya/ Purana-itihasa/Agama/Advaita Vedanta)
74 Women Studies
79 Visual Arts (including Drawing & Painting/Sculpture/ Graphics/Applied Art/History of Art)
80 Geography
81 Social Medicine & Community Health
82 Forensic Science
83 Pali
84 Kashmiri
85 Konkani
87 Computer Science and Applications
88 Electronic Science
89 Environmental Sciences
90 International and Area Studies
91 Prakrit
92 Human Rights and Duties
93 Tourism Administration and Management
94 Bodo
95 Santali

Hello sir, I am RAmandeep. I am preparing for UGC NET exam. I want you to help me by providing me the difference between NET UGC and JRF? Please provide the details?

[Kiran Chandar]

NET is known as National Education Test (NET) and JRF is known as Junior Research Fellowship.

NET is a national level entrance exam for post graduates many disciplines.

The applicants can go for PhD after clearing the entrance exam and qualifying the exam.

The applicants who want to go for research they can go for JRF which is a five year subject to fulfilment of certain condition.

The UGC NET will make eligible to join your job as lecturer while you crack for entrance exam.


JRF- Junior Research Fellowship is a fellowship (Rs. 25000/Month) offered by
both CSIR & UGC to the eligible and selected candidates through written
exams held two times a year as their stipend for doctoral studies or for their
assistance in various projects.

UGC offers a limited number of fellowships in all the disciplines viz. Arts,
Humanities, Social Sciences, Commerce, and others through its own (UGC-
NET) exam.

It also offers fellowships in 5 natural science discipline like, Physical Sciences,
Chemical Sciences, Life Sciences, Earth Sciences and Mathematical Sciences
through Joint CSIR-UGC-NET exam held by CSIR two times a year, now they
have added Engineering Sciences as one of the domain for CSIR-JRF.

Now, anybody who wants to pursue doctoral studies can have JRF if otherwise
eligible in their discipline.

Any person, who qualifies for JRF, automatically qualifies for the NET.

And, anybody who succeeds for JRF conducted by CSIR called CSIR-JRF and
NET, if qualified only for NET called UGC-NET, because eligibility for
lectureship is a right of UGC only and have nothing to do with CSIR