Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya PhD Admission 2025-26

Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya (BKCV), Nadia, West Bengal invites online application for PhD admission for the academic session 2025-26.

Eligibility Criteria

• A student can opt for admission to Doctoral Degree programme in one discipline only in which he/she has obtained M.Sc./M.Tech. Degree.
• Candidates must have passed 4-year Bachelor Degree programme followed by 2-year/ 4-Semester Master’s Degree programme in Agriculture / Horticulture /Agricultural Engineering from duly recognized University. Students under General, OBC and EWS categories must secure Overall Grade Point Average (OGPA) of at least 6.50 in 10.00 scale and the students under SC/ST/PwD categories must secure OGPA of at least 5.50 in10.00 scale in both Bachelor and Master Degree examination. In traditional system where grade points are not awarded, the General and OBC category candidates must have secured at least 60% marks whereas for SC/ST/PwD categories, the requirement is at least 50% marks.
• In the Doctoral Degree programme in Agriculture and Horticulture, candidates must have passed Higher Secondary or equivalent examination (10+2) in Science stream or vocational stream securing at least 50% marks in aggregate for General, OBC and EWS categories, whereas for SC/ST/PwD categories the said requirement is 40% marks.
• In the Doctoral Degree programme in Agricultural Engineering, candidates must have passed Higher Secondary or equivalent examination (10+2) with subjects and minimum marks of 50% for General and OBC candidates, and 40% for SC/ST/PwD candidates.
• The candidates with Masters Degree of two years’ duration in cognate branches of science/technology allied to Agriculture except Agronomy, Horticulture and Agricultural Engineering (as may be approved by the concerned board of studies and PG & UG Council of the respective Faculty), having the required percentage of marks in their degrees, shall be eligible for admission, provided they undertake at least 15 credit additional courses at their Master Degree level in their basic discipline of study during the tenure of their studentship. Such category of candidates will be considered for admission only if any vacancy remains after completion of normal admission process in Doctoral Degree courses.
• In the Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, the candidate must have passed 4-year Bachelor Degree programme (B.V.Sc. & A.H. / B.Sc. Ag), followed by 2- year Masters Degree programme in M.V.Sc. / M.Sc. (Ag.) with specialization.
• The qualifying marks of the Entrance Examination is 30% of total marks (i.e. 18 out of 60) for General, OBC, EWS and PwD category, and 25% of total marks (i.e. 15 out of 60) for SC and ST category students.
• All the candidates are required to submit self-attested photocopy of all the transcripts at the time of counseling / reporting for admission.

In-Service Candidate

• In-Service seat matrix has been mentioned in Annexure-II.
• In-service candidates, serving in a Govt. Organization/Institute/University at least for three (3) years, are eligible for admission to Doctoral Degree programme. The candidates need to apply through online portal.
• In-Service candidates are required to send a printed copy of filled-in online application form, duly forwarded by his/her employer, to the Registrar, BCKV, so as to reach the university before commencement of counseling/admission.
• For In-service candidates, the entrance test is not required. However, the candidate has to appear for one on-line/off-line interview before the interview board.
• In-Service candidates must submit a “NO OBJECTION CERTIFICATE” from his/her present employer during counselling at the time of reporting. After admission, the concerned students have to submit an approval letter of leave for a period of 3 (three) years, issued by his/her employer, within two (2) months from the date of admission /reporting, failing which his/her admission will be treated as cancelled without any further intimation.

Selection Process

Procedure of filling up of PhD Seats

Out of total seats (Department/Programme-wise):

• 70% seats will be reserved as University seats.
• 30% seats will be reserved as ICAR quota. ICAR’s nominees will be considered as per prevailing rules

All Ph.D. seats, except ICAR seats, will be filled up in the following manner:

• In URS category, all seats will be filled by domicile candidates of West Bengal only, as per merit list.
• Non-URS (Self-finance) seats will be first filled by domicile candidates, as per merit list. If any unfilled seat remains, that will be filled by non-domicile candidates, as per merit list.
• SC/ST/OBC/PwD/EWS candidates, who are domicile of West Bengal, will get the benefit of reservation as per reservation policy of the Government of West Bengal, on the basis of merit list.
• No benefit of reservation will be extended to the non-domicile candidates.
• Vacancies created under URS category at a later stage, will be filled-up by candidates already admitted under Non-URS category, as per merit list.
• Project Research Fellows are to be filled by domicile and non-domicile candidates as per merit list and also as per teacher-student ratio following ICAR accreditation norms.
• Any candidate engaged in any Project may take admission in Doctoral Degree programme, provided his/her name must appear in the Merit List. Moreover, the tenure of the project must be at least of two years. The cut-off date for considering such tenure of the project would be from the date of advertisement.
• The ICAR left over seats, if any, will be filled up by the students of BCKV only.
• Only one time up-gradation in respect of fellowship will be allowed as per merit list.
• If any vacant seat in In-Service category remains, that would be filled up from Non-URS category following the roster point of reservation policy, Govt. of West Bengal and as per merit list.
• Admission test (to be conducted by BCKV) and also academic record will be considered for preparation of merit list.

Entrance Details

• Admission test will be conducted by BCKV discipline-wise (Annexure-III);
• Admission test will be of 60 marks. The question paper will comprise of 60 MCQs of 1 marks each, and each with 4 unambiguous alternatives;
• The duration of the admission test will be 1 hour;
• There will be negative marking of 0.25 for each wrong answer;

Application Process

• Candidates have to apply online through the BCKV admission portal (www.bckvadmission.in).
• Read instruction given there carefully before filling application form.

• Opening date for submission of online application form: 25 September, 2025
• Closing date for submission of online application form: 10 October, 2025
• Closing date for correction/modification of application form: 13 October, 2025
• Download admit card for Entrance Examination: 14 October, 2025 onwards
• Date of Entrance Examination: 29 October, 2025
• Date of publication of provisional merit list: Will be notified on University Website later on.
• Date of counselling, counselling procedure and date of reporting: Will be notified on University Website later on.

• Notification
• Application Form
• BCKV Website