Dayalbagh Educational Institute PhD Admission 2025 (Sept)

Dayalbagh Educational Institute invites application for PhD Admission 2025 (Sept).

Eligibility Criteria

• A 1-year/2-semester master’s degree programme after a 4-year/8-semester bachelor’s degree programme (governed by NEP 2020) or a 2-year/4-semester master’s degree programme after a 3-year bachelors degree programme or qualifications declared equivalent to the master’s degree by the corresponding statutory regulatory body, with at least 55% marks in aggregate or its equivalent grade in a point scale wherever grading system is followed or equivalent qualification from a foreign educational institution accredited by an assessment and accreditation agency which is approved, recognized or authorized by an authority, established or incorporated under a law in its home country or any other statutory authority in that country to assess, accredit or assure quality and standards of the educational institution.
• Provided that a candidate seeking admission after a 4-year/8-semester bachelor’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.
• For candidates with Engineering discipline: B.Tech. or an equivalent Engineering degree in concerned discipline –
  • a) with at least 75% marks, or equivalent CGPA of 7.5/10; or
  • b) 90 percentile or more in G.A.T.E. (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering); or
  • c) with at least one-year relevant professional experience with one published paper in a standard journal.
• For candidates possessing an M.Tech. degree, a minimum of 55% marks in aggregate or an equivalent grade on the point scale is required
• Candidates who have completed the M.Phil. programme with at least 55% marks in aggregate or its equivalent grade in a point scale wherever grading system is followed or equivalent qualification from a foreign educational institution accredited by an assessment and accreditation agency which is approved, recognized or authorized by an authority, established or incorporated under a law in its home country or any other statutory authority in that country to assess, accredit or assure quality and standards of educational institutions, shall be eligible for admission to the Ph.D. programme.
• A relaxation of 5% marks or its equivalent grade may be allowed for those belonging to SC/ST/OBC (non-creamy layer/Differently-Abled, Economically Weaker Section (EWS) and other categories of candidates as per the decision of the University Grants Commission (Ministry of Education, Government of India) from time to time. Candidates claiming reservation in any of the said categories are required to submit a certificate issued by the Tehsildar in the prescribed format approved by the UP State or Central Government failing which their admission shall not be considered in the above categories.

Selection Process

Research Entrance Test (RET)

• Candidates possessing the minimum qualifications with the requisite percentage of marks and academic record as mentioned below shall be eligible to appear in the Ph.D. RET & Interview.
• Such candidates, who have obtained P.G. degree in some other, or a more specialized area/discipline, are required to indicate one of the above disciplines that is closest to their area of research interest, and with their P.G. degree/specialization. They are advised to indicate the discipline in their application form itself. Such candidates will be required to qualify Ph.D. RET in the said discipline only, failing which their candidature will be cancelled.
• There may be separate Ph.D. Research Entrance Test (RET) for each faculty or Groups of Departments.
• In case, a large number of applications are received by a department, only a limited number of candidates will be called for Ph.D. Research Entrance Test (RET) from the list prepared on the basis of marks (or CGPA) obtained in various pre-qualifying and/or qualifying examinations.
• Only written test qualified candidates shall be called for Interview and Innovation Test for which a list of qualified candidates along with schedule of venue shall be displayed separately on the DEl website (www.dei.ac.in). Candidates are advised to check the DEI website regularly after written test.
• All the questions will be multiple-choice in nature and there will be no negative marking.
• The Ph.D. RET written exam will be of 50 marks, and the interview will be of 18 marks. Final merit list will be made out of a total of 100 marks (Entrance Test (50 Marks) + Interview (18 Marks) + Co-curricular Activates (CCA) (12 Marks) + Innovative Test (20 Marks)]. The Candidates after qualifying the entrance test will be called for Interview and Innovation Test in 2nd round.
• For those candidates who are Ph.D. RET Exempted, the interview marks will be multiplied by 3.33 to bring all candidates on a common scale of 0 to 100.
• Timing -Written Test – 1:00 pm – 01.50 pm [Reporting Time for students at examination center at 12: 00 pm

Exemption from Ph.D. Research Entrance Test (RET)

A candidate who fulfils one of the following requirements may be considered for admission to Ph.D. without appearing in the Ph.D. RET. However, they will have to appear for the interview with marks components as defined below and obtain minim um marks (to be specified) in the interview.

• A candidate who has qualified UGC National Eligibility Test as Category-1 (NET-JRF Junior Research Fellowship eligibility), Category-2 (Assistant Professor eligibility and Ph.D. admission) and Category-3 (Ph.D. admission only). For candidates qualified under the Category-2 and Category-3, the marks obtained in the NET will have 50% weightage and 50% weightage will be based on the performance in the components other than NET weightage such as Interview (18 Marks) + Co-curricular Activates (CCA) (12 Marks) + Innovative Test (20 Marks) to be conducted by the Institute. The Ph.D. admission will be based on the combined merit of NET marks and the marks obtained in the other components as defined above. For admission to Ph.D., the marks obtained in the NET by the candidates in Category-2 and Category-3 will be valid for a period of one year from the date of declaration of the result of UGC NET. Candidates belonging to Category-1 shall be exempted from appearing in the Written Test and Innovation Test; however, they will be required to appear for the Interview
• Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering (GATE) of current session will be considered for admission to discipline under Faculty of Engineering only.
• A candidate who is a recipient of fellowships of government/semi-government organizations such as Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), University Grants Commission (UGC), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Department of Biotechnology (DBT), and similar national-level organizations, which are awarded through an All India selection procedure conducted by the agency/organization concerned. However, candidates selected in the research project funded by such organizations shall not be considered under Ph.D. RET exempted category.

Direct Admission

• Those candidates of the Institute who have
  • (A) been awarded Director’s Medal in their post graduate qualifying examination
  • (B) passed the post-graduate qualifying examination from respective departments of Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed to be University), and
  • (C) scored CGPA of 9.0/10 or above may be granted direct admission to the Ph.D. Programme.
• In the absence of an applicant with Director’s Medal, the best candidate of the discipline concerned satisfying criteria (B) and (C) may be considered, subject to availability of seats. Number of seats in such cases shall be treated as supernumerary subject to a maximum 20% of the total available seats.

Application Process

• Candidates can apply online on Institute website.
• Read instructions carefully given there before filling application form.

• Last date for receiving online application forms: 14 September, 2025
• Date of Research Entrance Test: 27 September, 2025

• Notification
• DEI Agra Website