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ACADEMIC COURSES AND TRAINING PROGRAMMES |
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Doctoral programme The Institute imparts long term research training leading to a PhD degree of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Applications for the PhD programme are invited from candidates interested in pursuing scientific career in biological and related sciences. A detailed announcement describing the selection procedure for admission to the PhD programme is displayed on the Institute’s website and advertised in all national newspapers & Employment News in the month of October/November every year for the academic session that begins in July. Around thirty to thirty five scholars are admitted to the programme each year, selected on the basis of a national competitive written examination for short-listing the applicants & followed by interviews of these short-listed candidates held at the Institute sometime in June. Minimal academic qualifications required are: M. Sc. or equivalent in any branch of science, or M. Tech. or MBBS or M. V. Sc. or M. Pharm. or equivalent qualification recognized by Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, along with first division or an equivalent grade or at least 60% of aggregate scores in all major examinations from Senior Secondary Certificate (10+2) onwards. |
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Short-term training The Institute considers the requests from sister organizations for project work towards partial fulfillment of the respective postgraduate degrees (of at least SIX months’ duration; session I: Jul-Dec; session II: Jan-Jun) for a limited number of students of postgraduate courses of Indian universities for access to its research facilities under the supervision of the Institute’s scientists. The minimal eligibility criterion for consideration of the requests is first division or an equivalent grade or at least 60% of aggregate scores in all major examinations starting from secondary examination (Xth) onwards. The requests are required to be routed through the respective Head of the concerned Departments, enclosing the academic resume of the recommended student(s) and mentioning the duration and the period of proposed project work. The requests so received are considered on the basis of available vacancies. The Institute is unable to consider direct requests from the students and requests enclosing the photocopies of the general letter of recommendation. The last date for the receipt of requests for postgraduate research projects are Jan 31 (for session I) and Jul 31 (for session II). All requests are to be sent to: Manager(A&E), National Institute of Immunology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi-110067. (e-mail :academic@nii.res.in ) NOTES :
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