IGNOU admission: Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has announced for admission to its Ph.D. and M.Phil. programmes. Intersested people are invited to apply for the courses for July 2018 session in regular mode. The admission process will begin from January 23 on the official website of the varsity – onlineadmission.ignou.ac.in. A national-level entrance exam will be conducted on March 4 in selected examination centers across the country, Director of IGNOU Research Unit Prof, Kaustuva Barik said. The last date for submission of application form is 16th Feburary’2018. Details are as follows:
For doing M.Phil., applications are invited for the following subjects-
• Sociology
• Political Science
• Economics
• Geography
• Translation Studies
• Social Work
• Commerce
• Chemistry
• Distance education
Those applying for M. Phil. in Economics would not be required to go through the entrance exam but have to be eligible as per the criteria available on the university’s website; http://www.ignou.ac.in
Ph.D. programme is being offered in the following subjects-
• Psychology
• Anthropology
• Sociology
• Library and Information Science
• Political Science
• Public Administration
• History
• Gender and Development Studies
• Women’s Studies
• Geography
• Translation Studies
• Statistics
• Food & Nutritional Sciences
• Environmental Studies
• Geology
• Management
• Life Sciences
• Commerce
• Hindi
• Distance Education
• Nursing
• Social Work
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Biochemistry
Bio-chemistry, Physics, and Life Sciences disciplines would not have entrance exam and would be based on eligibility criteria as per the criteria available on the university’s website: http://www.ignou.ac.in.
The online portal for admission to M Phil/ PhD programmes will be operational from January 23, 2018. For eligibility criteria and submission of online forms, interested candidates are requested to go through http://onlineadmission.ignou.ac.in/entrancersunit/
Important dates for IGNOU Ph.D. and M.Phil. programmes Admission:
Application begins: January 23, 2018
Application process ends: February 16, 2018
Entrance test date: March 4, 2018
About IGNOU:
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), established by an Act of Parliament in 1985, has continuously striven to build an inclusive knowledge society through inclusive education. It has tried to increase the Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) by offering high-quality teaching through the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) mode.
The University began by offering two academic programmes in 1987, i.e., Diploma in Management and Diploma in Distance Education, with a strength of 4,528 students.
Today, it serves the educational aspirations of over 2.7 million students in India and other countries through 21 Schools of Studies and a network of 67 regional centres, around 2,667 learner support centres. The University offers about 228 certificate, diploma, degree and doctoral programmes, with a strength of nearly 283 faculty members and 256 academic staff at the headquarters and regional centres and about 33,212 academic counsellors from conventional institutions of higher learning, professional organisations, and industry among others.
