VNIT Nagpur PhD Admission 2025 (July)

Applications are invited by Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur for PhD Programs in various departments for July 2024.

PhD Admission Categories

Full-Time (Category 1)

• Cat. 1A: Institute (MoE, GOI) – Assistantship is only for GATE/NET qualified candidates.
• Cat. 1B: Sponsored Project – Financial support from sponsored/funded projects as per the norms of the sponsoring agency and VNIT Nagpur.
• Cat. 1C: External Fellowship – Financial support from Govt. agencies such as UGC/ NET/ DST/ DBT/ ICMR/ CSIR etc. A valid research fellowship award letter from such agencies is mandatory. Financial support and duration as per the agency and VNIT Nagpur.
• Cat. 1D: Sponsored – No financial assistance from VNIT Nagpur. Fully self-sponsored OR sponsored by employers. GATE is not mandatory. NOC (as per Annexure I) is mandatory if sponsored by an organization. Expected to be released for full-time coursework and research for a minimum of three years.

Part-Time (Category 2)

• Cat. 2A: No Assistantship from VNIT Nagpur. Students admitted under this category are not eligible for financial assistance. Students with a qualifying score in a national-level examination (GATE/NET) may convert to full-time within the first two years, subject to VNIT Nagpur’s PhD norms. A NOC from the current employer (as per Annexure II) is mandatory. NOC is also required when converting from part-time to full-time upon qualifying national-level examinations.

Note: Visvesvaraya PhD scheme seats, if available, may be filled under Cat. 1A (Eligibility & Assistantship as per Visvesvaraya PhD scheme).

Research Areas

Applied Mechanics (Structural Engineering)

Core Research Areas:

Steel Structures, Concrete Structures, Precast structures, Prestressed steel and Concrete Structures, Composite structures, Earthquake Engineering, Finite Element Analysis, Nonlinear Analysis, Performance based Design, Structural Response Control, High Strength Concrete, Ultra High Performance Concrete, Self-Compacting Concrete, Durability and Concrete Corrosion, Special Structures (i.e. Bridges, Water Tanks, Steel Tower etc.), Structural Reliability, Blast Resistant Design of Structure, High Strain Rate Behavior of Materials, Crashworthiness, Seismic Vulnerability and Risk Assessment, Random Vibration, Structural Health Monitoring, Structural Rehabilitation, Forensic Structural Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Wind Engineering, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Hybrid Simulation, Structural Fire Engineering, Soil-Structure Interaction, Multi Hazard Analysis of Structures, Underground Structures.

Interdisciplinary Research Areas:

New Materials, Smart Materials, Composite Materials, Functionally Graded Materials, Digital Twin, Civionics.

Chemical Engineering

Core Research Areas:

Advanced Materials, Advanced Separation, Adsorption, Agricultural Engineering, Battery Technology, Biochemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology, Bioenergy, Biopesticides and Fertilizers, Catalysis, Colloids, Drug Delivery, Environmental Engineering, Green Engineering and Technology, Interfacial Science, Membrane Bioreactor, Membrane Separation, Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Physical Separation, Polymer Science and Engineering, Process Control, Process Intensification, Process Modeling and Simulation, Waste-to-Energy, Water Treatment, and other research areas of mutual interest between the supervisor and the scholar.

Interdisciplinary Research Areas:

Advanced Materials, Advanced Separation, Adsorption, Agricultural Engineering, Battery Technology, Biochemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology, Bioenergy, Biopesticides and Fertilizers, Catalysis, Colloids, Drug Delivery, Environmental Engineering, Green Engineering and Technology, Interfacial Science, Membrane Bioreactor, Membrane Separation, Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Physical Separation, Polymer Science and Engineering, Process Control, Process Intensification, Process Modeling and Simulation, Waste-to-Energy, Water Treatment, and other research areas of mutual interest between the supervisor and the scholar.

Civil Engineering

Core Research Areas:

Water Distribution Systems, Environmental Management, Water and Waste Water Treatment, Solid and Hazardous Waste, Traffic Engg, Pavement Design, Highway Construction Materials, Durability of concrete, High Performance Concrete, Self-Compacting Concrete, Bond Strength of Concrete with Reinforcement, Building Construction & Technology, Water Resources Engineering, Green Building, Construction Management, Remote Sensing & GIS Applications, Geotechnical Engineering, Characterization of geo-materials & Ground Improvement, Rock Engineering & Underground structures, Soil Dynamics & Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Application of Geosynthetics, Physical & Numerical modelling of Geotechnical systems, Mining Geotechnics & Pavement Geotechnics, Geo-environmental Engineering, Rock Mechanics, Transportation Geotechnics.

Interdisciplinary Research Areas:

Image and Video Processing, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, Internet of Things, Human behavior & psychology in transportation, Urban transport planning, and public transport planning, Fracture Mechanism in Pavement Engineering, Energy Harvesting, Pavement Systems, Project Management, Built Environment, Building Information Modeling, Public Private Partnership, Impact of urbanization on infrastructure, Construction Management, Project Engineering & Management, Quantity Surveying, Occupational Health Safety & Environment and Contracts Management, Water resources management, Fly ash management and fly ash technology development in an interdisciplinary section, Project management & Organizational issues, Energy, Environment & Climate Resilience.

Computer Science and Engineering

Core Research Areas:

Parallel & Distributed Computing, Data Mining & Warehousing, Pattern Recognition, Security, Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing, Mobile Computing, Knowledge Management, IT and IT enables services, Real Time systems, Image and Video processing, Data Science, Machine learning, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, Information retrieval, Natural language processing, Spatial information extraction, Data analytics and Data Science, Wireless sensor networks, Biological systems modeling.

Electrical Engineering

Core Research Areas:

Power Electronics and Drives, Power Electronics applications in Power System, Electrical Machines, design and condition monitoring, Power system and related areas, Control systems and its applications, Electric Vehicles and Charging Infrastructure, Renewable Energy Sources and Utilization, Micro-grid stability and analysis, Power Quality, Smart Grid, Energy Vectors and Management, Control system interface with system and Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Application, Non-linear Dynamics and Chaos Theory, Switchgear and protection, IOT and Industry automation, Measurement and Instrumentation, Circuit and Electromagnetic Field Theory, Bio-medical Instrumentation and Control.

Electronics and Communication Engineering

Core Research Areas:

Communication Engineering, Signal Processing, Image Processing, Video Processing, Computer Vision, Biomedical Signal and Image Processing and Analysis and its applications, Antennas / RF/ Microwave Engineering, Embedded Systems and Sensor networks, Artificial Intelligence Machine learning and its applications, Optical and Photonics, IoT Electronics & Instrumentation.

Interdisciplinary Research Areas:

Cyber-Physical systems, Earth Observation, Remote Sensing, Structural health monitoring, Smart Transportation Engineering, Avionics/ Civionics.

Mechanical Engineering

Core Research Areas:

Collaborative robots and nonlinear control, Machine vision, deep learning and artificial intelligence, Nonlinear dynamics, Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics, Vibration and Machine condition monitoring, Composite laminates and damage identification, Biomedical Engineering, Product design, Mechanism and parallel manipulators, Surface engineering, Friction and Tribology, Crashworthiness, ballistic and cellular structure, Nanomaterials, CNT reinforced composites and ceramics, Bio Tribology, Adhesion and rupture of soft solids, Renewable energy (Solar/Wind/Biomass), CFD, Compressible flow and Fluid dynamics, Combustion engineering, Supersonic and hypersonic engines, Multi phase flows, Fluid structure interaction, I.C Engines and Alternative fuels, Fuel Cell, Heat and Mass transfer, Nuclear power engineering and safety, CAD/CAM and additive manufacturing, Industrial engineering, Manufacturing system simulation, Maintenance and reliability engineering, Smart manufacturing and automation, Ergonomics and human factor.

Interdisciplinary Research Areas:

Machine vision, deep learning and artificial intelligence, Biomedical Engineering, EV technology, Aerospace engineering, Mechatronics.

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Core Research Areas:

Wear of Composite and Metallic Materials, Welding Metallurgy, Development of Polymer Blends and Composite Materials, Fatigue, Creep and Fracture Behavior of Materials, Corrosion Science and Engineering, Alloy Development, Nano-Bio Materials/ SMART Materials, Polymers Polymeric/Ceramics and Composite Materials, Processing of Materials, Waste Materials Utilization, Modelling and Simulations in Materials Engineering, Recrystallization in metals/ alloys, Texture and Micro-texture development in metals/alloys/ceramics, Crystal plasticity deformation simulations, Nanomaterials for functional applications.

Interdisciplinary Research Areas:

Biomaterials, Nano-materials, waste management, recycling, bio-corrosion, polymer-composites, materials characterization.

Mining Engineering

Core Research Areas:

Rock Engineering, Geomechanics, Slope Engineering & strata Control, Geo-environmental aspects, Dust and other Environmental Pollution, Design of Mine & excavations, Tunnel, Caverns, Underground storage, subsurface urban facilities, Blasting and Rock Fragmentation, Applicability of System Engineering and Safety Engineering, Reliability and Productivity Analysis of excavation equipment, Numerical Modeling for Rock Mechanics Applications, Mine waste management, IOT, AI/ML application in Mining & Excavation, Green Mining/ Clean Coal Technology.

VLSI & Nanotechnology

Core Research Areas:

Embedded Systems, VLSI Systems, Sensors and Systems, MEMS/NEMS, Semiconductor Devices and Modelling for applications in Quantum, RF, High Power, Micro and Nanoelectronics, Real time Image/Signal Processing, Optoelectronics / Photonics, Quantum Computing.

Architecture and Planning

Core Research Areas (Architecture):

Architecture and Urban Conservation, Building Acoustics, Building Illumination, Building Materials, Built Environment and Human Behavior, Energy Efficient Architecture, Housing, Pedagogy in Architecture, Sustainable Architecture, Universal Design, Vernacular Architecture.

Core Research Areas (Planning):

Climate and Disaster Risk resilience, Complex Systems approach for Urban Studies, Environmental Planning, Project Management, Real Estate and Development, Regional Planning, Remote Sensing and GIS applications, Rural Area Planning and development, Urban Design, Urban Form and Climate Studies, Urban Heat Island Studies, Urban Housing, Urban Infrastructure, Urban Planning and development, Urban Soundscape, Urban Sustainability, Urban Transportation.

Physics

Core Research Areas:

Solid Electrolytes, Functional Ceramics, Nanomaterials /Biomaterials, Polymers Polymeric/ Ceramics & Composite Materials, Solar Cells, Sensors, Supercapacitors, Quantum dots, Magnetic Nanoparticles, Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Thin films, Heterojunctions, Advanced Materials/SMART Materials, Simulation and Modeling, computational condensed matter physics, density functional theory based computations of novel quantum materials, Theoretical and mathematical Physics, Quantum Theory, Quantum information Theory, Quantum Computing, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Machine Learning, Many- Body Condensed Matter Theory, Numerical Linear Algebra, Photocatalysis, Photoluminescence, Ferroelectric & Dielectric materials, Quantum dots Containing Glasses, Air Purification, Theory of random matrices and Complex systems, Chaos and integrability in classical and quantum systems, Topological Materials, Collective Excitations.

Chemistry

Core Research Areas:

Polymer Chemistry, Functional Materials, Nanomaterials, Catalysis, Photocatalysis, Green Chemistry, Water splitting and Nitrogen fixation, Hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) of bio-oil, pyrolysis of lignin, Waste Biomass, Sustainable packaging, Molecular Imprinting, Solid Phase extraction & method development, Molecular Spectroscopy for Optoelectronic Materials (OLED) and Theragnostic Drug Development, Anticancer Drug Discovery, Photodynamic Therapy, Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Biophysical Chemistry, Photophysics and Photobiology, Recyclable Elastomeric Composites, Transition Metal Chemistry, Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry, Bioinorganic Catalysis, Electroanalytical chemistry, Electrochemical and impedimetric sensors, Organic synthesis, Heterocyclic chemistry, Synthetic methodologies, Asymmetric synthesis, Biocatalysis, Chemistry of Organic Photo Voltaics, Thermodynamics &Solution Chemistry, Crystal Engineering, Organic soft material, Supramolecular chemistry, Liquid crystals, Wastewater treatment, Cavitation, and Desulphurization of Transportation fuels.

Mathematics

Core Research Areas:

Relativity & Cosmology, Numerical Analysis, Singular Perturbation Problems, Fluid Mechanics, Numerical Fluid Dynamics, Operator Theory, Functional Analysis, Spectral Element Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Fixed Point Theory : Nonlinear Analysis, Singular Boundary Value Problems, Approximation Theory, Commutative Algebra, Fractal Approximation, Lie Groups, Lie Algebra, Partial Differential Equations and Integro-Differential Equations, Query Theory: Stochastic Modeling, Operation Research, Optimization under uncertainty, Fractional order differential equations, Topology, Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory, Mathematical modeling in DEs, Theoretical seismology and solid mechanics, High Resolution Schemes for Conservation Laws, Numerical Approximation for Fractional Differential Equations.

Humanities and Social Sciences

Core Research Areas:

Sociology, English Language & Literature, Open-Economy Macroeconomics, Trade and Development, Public Finance and Policy, Psychology, Human Resource Management, Sanskrit.

Interdisciplinary Board (Biomedical Engineering)

Tissue engineering, Bio Medical Engineering, Rural Health Monitoring Technology, Bio materials & implants, Image processing for cancer detection, AI applied to Health sciences, any other research area related to Health sciences.

Eligibility Criteria

Marks/CGPA Requirement

• GEN (Open) 6.5 CGPA (on the scale of 1-10) or 60 % at either UG or PG
• OBC (NC) 6.0 CGPA (on the scale of 1-10) or 55 % at either UG or PG
• SC, ST 5.5 CGPA (on the scale of 1-10) or 50 % at either UG or PG

Applied Mechanics (Structural Engineering)

Eligibility for Admission:

• ME. / B. Tech./ AMIE in Civil Engineering.
• ME / M.Tech in Structural Engineering/Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering / Structural Engineering related specialization/ Civil Engineering / Excavation Engineering, Mining Engineering, Rock Mechanics / Geotechnical Engineering / Material Engineering/ Construction Management/ Urban Planning/ Transportation Engineering / Forensic Structural Engineering / AI-ML in Structural Engineering / Civionics.

Eligibility for Interdisciplinary candidates:

• ME. / B. Tech. / AMIE in Any branch of Engineering.
• ME. / M. Tech. in Any branch of Engineering.

Chemical Engineering

Eligibility for Admission:

• MTech. / B. E. students in any disciplines.
• MTech. / M. E. students in any disciplines.
• MSc. Tech. / M.Sc. students in any disciplines.

Eligibility for Interdisciplinary candidates:

• MTech. /B. E. students in any disciplines.
• MTech. /M. E. students in any disciplines.
• MSc. Tech. /M.Sc. students in any disciplines.

Civil Engineering

Eligibility for Admission:

• ME. / B.Tech / AMIE in Civil Engg. BE/ B.Tech (Environmental Engineering) as a qualifying U.G. Degree in addition to BE/B Tech in Civil Eng,.
• ME./ M.Tech in any branch of Civil Engineering/Excavation Engineering/Mining Engineering/ Applied Geology/ Urban Planning/Urban Resource Planning/ Master’s in Planning(M Plan). M.E./M.Tech in (Energy & Environment/ Environmental Science & Engineering/Industrial Pollution control/Environmental Science & Technology/Environmental Management/Wastewater Management Health and Safety/Sanitation Science, Technology & Management/Waste Management) or equivalent as qualifying P.G. degree. M.E./ M.Tech in (Agricultural Engineering/ Soil & Water Conservation Engg/ Water resources management/Water management/ Offshore Engg/Naval Engg/Marine Engg/Ocean Engg) or equivalent as qualifying P.G. degree.

Eligibility for Interdisciplinary candidates:

• Bachelor’s degree in any branch of Engineering, Architecture, or Planning.
• ME/M.Tech in any branch of engineering/ Master of Planning (M.Plan)/ Master of Architecture (M.Arch) / Master of Design (M.Des).

Computer Science and Engineering

Eligibility for Admission:

• ME./B. Tech./AMIE or equivalent in one of the following branches:
• ME./M. Tech or equivalent in one of the following branches: Computer Science/Computer Technology/Computer Engineering/Information Technology/Information Science and allied Computer Science branches – Electronics/ Electronics and Communication /Electronics and Telecommunication/ Electronics and Instrumentation/ Microelectronics/ Nanoelectronics/ VLSI and Embedded Systems/ Digital Electronics and allied Electronics branch.

Electrical Engineering

Eligibility for Admission:

• ME./B.Tech in Electrical Engineering or Allied branches such as: Electrical & Power, Electronics & Instrumentation, Power Engineering, Energy Systems, Control& Instrumentation, Instrumentation, Electric Vehicles, Electronics and communication or Engineering Degree in any other discipline with minor degree in the Electrical Engineering.
• ME/M.Tech in Electrical Engineering or Allied Specializations Such as Power Electronics, Control systems, Power Systems, Power Electronics & Drives, Electrical Machines, Instrumentation, Condition Monitoring, Bio-medical Instrumentation & Control, Industrial Automation & Control, Automation, Process Control, Transportation Engineering, Non-linear Dynamics, Computer Science, Power Quality, Robotics, Signal Processing, Power & Control, Smart Grid, Electric Vehicles, Energy Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Electronics and Communications, Embedded Systems, Mechanical Engineering with Thermal and Heat flow.

Electronics and Communication Engineering

Eligibility for Admission:

• ME. / B. Tech. / AMIE / AMIETE / B.Sc. (Engineering.) of four years duration in one of the following branches: Electronics and allied branches, Computer Science and allied branches, Electrical and allied branches, Instrumentation and allied branches, Biomedical, IoT, Mechatronics, Robotics. B.E. / B.Tech. in any Engineering discipline.
• MTech. / M.E. / M.S. (at least two year program) in above branches.

Eligibility for Interdisciplinary candidates:

• ME. / B. Tech. /AMIE/AMIETE/B.Sc. (Engineering.) of four years duration in one of the following branches: Electronics and allied branches, Computer Science and allied branches, Electrical and allied branches, Instrumentation and allied branches, Biomedical, IoT, Mechatronics, Robotics. B.E. /B.Tech. in any Engineering discipline.
• MTech./ M.E./ M.S. (at least two-year program) in above branches.

Mechanical Engineering

Eligibility for Admission:

• ME/B.Tech. in Mechanical Engg. or equivalent.
• ME/M. Tech. in Mechanical Engg. or Equivalent.

Eligibility for Interdisciplinary candidates:

• Same as above.

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Eligibility for Admission:

• ME. / B. Tech. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering / Allied branches / Mechanical / Production / Industrial / Chemical.
• ME. / M. Tech in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering/ Mechanical/ Production / Industrial / Chemical and M.Sc (Physics or Chemistry or Materials Science or Biotechnology or allied areas).

Eligibility for Interdisciplinary candidates:

• ME / B.Tech / M.E. / M. Tech in Mechanical/ Production / Industrial / Chemical and M.Sc (Physics or Chemistry or Materials Science or Biotechnology or allied areas) or equivalent.

Mining Engineering

Eligibility for Admission:

• ME./ B.Tech in Mining/ Civil/ Construction/ Environment/ Mechanical/ Electrical/ Electronics/ Metallurgy/ Chemical/ Computer Science Engg. or Equivalent.
• ME/ M.Tech in Mining Engg. or related to Mining Engg./ Civil Engg./ Construction Engg./ Environment Engg./ Mechanical Engg./ Electrical Engg./ Electronics Engg./ Metallurgy Engg./ Chemical Engg./ Computer Science Engg./ Geo-Tech Engg/ Mine Planning/ Rock Mechanics/ Opencast Mining/Mineral Engg./ Earth Resource Engg./ Geomatics/Reliability Engg./ Safety Engg. And any other related branch. OR M.Sc./ M.Sc. Tech in Geology/ Applied Geology/ Environment.

VLSI & Nanotechnology

Eligibility for Admission:

• ME/B.Tech in Electronics Engg.or equivalent.
• ME./ M. Tech in one of the following branches: Microelectronics, Nanoelectronics, VLSI and embedded system, VLSI design, VLSI systems, Optoelectronics/Photonics, digital Electronics, Microelectronics and VLSI design, VLSI and Embedded systems related branches, Microelectronics/ Nanoelectronics related branches.

Architecture and Planning

• MArch./ BE (Civil)/ B.Tech.(Civil)/ B.Plan./ B.Tech. (Plan) or equivalent with M.C.P./ M. Arch./ M.Des./ M.Tech. (Urban Planning)/ M. Plan./ M.U.R.P./ ME (T&C.P) / other masters in relevant field.

Physics

• Master’s Degree in the concerned or an allied subject.

Chemistry

• MSc./M.Tech. or equivalent degree in Chemistry or an allied discipline, Biochemistry, Environmental Science, Biotechnology, Medical Biotechnology, Microbiology, Pharmacy, Forensic Science, Nanoscience, Polymer Technology/ Science, Electronics, Biophotonics, Material Science, Food Technology/Science.

Mathematics

• MSc./M.A./M.S. in Mathematics / Applied Mathematics.

Humanities and Social Sciences

• MA. in English/ Sociology /Economics/ Sanskrit.

Interdisciplinary Board (Biomedical Engineering)

• Biomedical: BE/B.Tech in any branch of engineering or equivalent, B.Arch, M.Sc in any discipline, ME/M.Tech in any branch of Engg, M.Arch/ M.B.A./equivalent OR MBBS/ BDS/ BAMS/ BHMS/

Application Process

The application form is available on the institute website https://vnit.ac.in/section/academics/admission/

The duly filled application form, along with photocopies of the certificates (self-attested) & photograph, and a copy of the payment receipt, should be sent by speed post or hand delivery by due date.

Applications received after the last date and incomplete applications will liable to rejection.

In addition to the above process of physical form submission, candidates need to fill Google Form (Online), link for the same is displayed along with the Brochure. Candidates are requested to fill correct information in the Google Form as per the information given in the actual form submitted. Candidate take important Note that, if they are submitting a PhD application for Multiple Branches then they need to fill out the different Google Forms for the different branches.

Selection Procedure

All candidates will be required to appear in the written examination, which will be conducted in the respective departments on the date specified in the information brochure. Further, the candidates shortlisted based on performance in the written test shall be interviewed as per schedule.

The top scorer of the written test will be normalized to 100, and the marks of other candidates will be scaled accordingly. Then, depending on the number of candidates to be called for the interview, the Department can set a cut-off normalized score. However, a normalized cut-off below 40% is not allowed.

No TA/DA will be provided.

The interview of the shortlisted candidates will be conducted in the concerned departments as per the schedule given in this brochure. The constitution of the interview committee will be as follows:

1. Head of the concerned Department – Chairman
2. Director Nominee
3. All faculty members from the concerned department/ discipline – Members

Qualified GATE/NET score (in the past) is mandatory for the PhD admission category 1(A), and for other categories, the requirement of the GATE/NET Score will be as per the norms of sponsoring agencies.

GATE/NET score, percentile GATE score, as well as qualified mark should be stated. The final list of the candidates will be prepared based on the following weightage of the written exam, interview, and GATE/NET score for all categories of Full-Time and Part-Time Ph.D.

Weightage for different parameters:

Candidates having GATE/NET score (Full-Time/Part-Time):

• Written Examination: 40%
• Interview: 20%
• GATE/NET Score: 40%

Candidates NOT having GATE/NET score (Full-Time/Part-Time):

• Written Examination: 60%
• Interview: 40%
• GATE/NET Score: NIL

Provisional list display: The provisional list of selected candidates will be displayed on the Institute’s website, and no separate intimation will be sent to the candidates. Selected candidates shall report to the Joint Registrar (Academic) for admission and payment of prescribed fees as per the schedule.

Reporting to the Department: Candidates shall report to the concerned department to get a Supervisor allotted. Candidates, in consultation with the supervisor, shall identify the area of research and prepare a synopsis. The supervisor will propose a Research Progress Committee (RPC) for the Ph.D. program. The RPC shall monitor the progress of the Ph.D. work of the candidate.

Course Selection: The Supervisor and RPC shall recommend the courses to be undertaken by a candidate as per norms.

• Date of notification: 5 May, 2025
• Last date of accepting of application form in hardcopy (by speed post/hand delivery): 11 June, 2025
• Last date of uploading Google form of application: 11 June, 2025
• Display of list of eligible candidates (in website www.vnit.ac.in): 18 June, 2025
• Written test for eligible candidates: 1 July, 2025 & 2 July, 2025
• Interview for short listed candidates*: 1 July, 2025 & 2 July, 2025
• Display of provisional list of selected candidates: 8 July, 2025
• Online Reporting and payment of fees: 9 July, 2025 to 22 July, 2025
• Joining & registration of courses (Offline): 22 July, 2025 to 28 July, 2025

• Poster
• Information Brochure
• Application Form (word/pdf)
• Schedule
• VNIT Nagpur Website