PhD in Economics from IIT Guwahati

Hi I am interested in having the information about the eligibility as well as admission for the PhD course offered by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT, Guwahati?

[Rajkumar Agarwal]

Applications had been welcomed for admission to the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program beginning in July 2016 in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. The offices/focuses and ranges in which this program will be offered is:

Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciences

English, Economics, Linguistics, Development Studies, Political Science,
Psychology, Sociology.

PhD in Humanities and Social Sciences

For admission to the PhD Program in the bureau of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), a competitor must fulfill one of the accompanying criteria:

i) Master's degree in Arts/Commerce/Science in a significant region with at least 55% imprints or identical.

ii) Master's degree in Engineering/Technology/Design in an applicable zone with a base CPI of 6.5 or 60%

marks.

iii) Four-year Bachelor's degree from an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in an applicable zone with a base CPI of 7.0.

iv) Four-year Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Technology/Design or equal (from other than IITs) in an important territory with a base CPI of 7.5 or 70% imprints.

Confirmation

Admissions to the PhD program are typically held twice per year, amid May/June and December. Scholastic floods of the division promote for new affirmations subject to the positions accessible. Understudies from science, expressions or business foundations with a base 55% imprints (or proportional) at the Masters level in a significant teach are qualified to apply. Understudies from innovation, building, plan foundations with certain base prerequisites can likewise apply (please allude to the PhD commercial of the organization for the pertinent session). Applications are short recorded and a confirmation test is directed. The test comprises of a composed exam, trailed by a meeting.

Classes

Hopefuls can apply under different classifications (a solitary applicant is prompted not to apply in more than one classification). A Regular full time competitor gets budgetary assistantship from the organization on the off chance that he/she has qualified the NET or GATE (hopefuls without NET/GATE capability ought not have any significant bearing in the customary full time class). A full time supported hopeful gets no assistantship. She is required to have proficient involvement in important territories for no less than one year and needs to create sponsorship letter from the association she has been working with. Low maintenance PhD understudies are likewise conceded. They should have at least one year's involvement in applicable fields. A no-protest authentication (NOC) from the business in the predetermined arrangement (see commercial) is required. In the self-financed classification an understudy can work either full time or low maintenance, and needs to have at least one year proficient involvement in a pertinent territory. She gets no assistantship from the organization. For more data please allude to the PhD notice of the foundation.

Understudies moving on from the MA Development Studies program of the division can apply for PhD in non-general classifications with the base proficient experience. Competitors who have passed MA/MSc from any of the IITs with at least 8 point CPI will be given the foundation monetary assistantship, on the off chance that they don't get assistantship from different sources. They ought to apply in standard class.