NIT Warangal Ph.D: Fees 2025, Course Duration, Dates, Eligibility

NIT Warangal offers the PhD. program in both full time and part time mode to make it easy for the working professionals. At NIT Warangal, there are seven types of research scholars in the PhD. Degree Program, five in Full Time and two in Part Time. Minimum duration of the PhD. program at NIT Warangal is 3 years while it can be extended to maximum duration of 4 years for certain specializations and research fields.Check More: NIT Warangal Courses & Fees

NIT Warangal PhD Important Dates 2023

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NIT Warangal PhD Eligibility Criteria

• Nationality: The candidate should be a citizen of India
• Age: The minimum age should be 20 Years.
• PhD in Engineering (Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, and Communication Engineering, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Biotechnology): M.Tech. with minimum 60% marks, B.Tech. with 75% marks in aggregate.
• PhD in Science (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry): M.Sc./M.Phil. /M.Tech. with a minimum of 60% marks.
• PhD in Humanities (Humanities and Social Sciences): Post Graduate in relevant stream with a minimum of 60% marks.
• PhD in Management (School of Management): MBA with 60% marks and JRF or NET score.

NIT Warangal PhD Admission Criteria 

Admission to all the PhD programs will be done on the basis of merit of the Entrance Exam conducted by the institute itself. The Entrance will proceed with a Personal Interview (PI). And candidates having a valid JRF/NET score have no need to appear for the Entrance Exam. Also, Part-Time Candidates are exempted from Entrance tests.

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How to Apply for PhD at NIT Warangal?

Online Application:

• Firstly, Open the Official Website of the Institute.
• Go to the Admissions tab under the Academics link.
• Select the PhD Course in it and download the Application form.
• Fill all the details carefully including personal and educational details.
• Submit all the necessary documents along with the application form.
• Submit the application fee which is INR.1000/- for PhD Course.
• Check all the details carefully.

Offline Application:

• The Application form will be available in the Institute.
• Fill the Application form including all personal and educational details asked in the form.
• Submit all the documents along with the Application form and the Application fees which is INR 1000/-
• Submit all these things personally to:
  • The Director
  • State Bank of Hyderabad
  • National Institute of Technology Branch
  • Warangal – 506004
  • Telangana, India

Documents Required

• 12th Marksheet
• 10th Marksheet
• DOB Certificate
• Caste Certificate (SC/ST Candidates)
• Score Card of GATE / NET.
• No Objection Certificate from Employer (If Employed)
• Passport Size Photographs

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NIT Warangal PhD Course Details

• The PhD Degree Program Structure consists of the following stages:
  • PhD. Course work and evaluation
  • Research proposal submission and assessment
  • Periodic assessment of research progress
  • Pre-synopsis seminar and synopsis submission
  • Submission of PhD thesis and adjudication
• The PhD Thesis must be submitted within Six months after the submission of the synopsis.

Student Categories: There are seven types of student categories in the PhD Degree Program, five in Full Time and two in Part Time.

Full Time:

• Full-Time student on Institute Fellowship.
• Full-Time Government/Semi-Government Fellowship awardees - QIP/FIP(UGC)/CSIR/UGC/DOE/DST/DBT/NBHM etc.
• Full-Time project fellows/JRF/SRF appointed in R&D projects being carried out in NITW.
• Full-Time Sponsored student from Industry/R&D organizations.
• Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) fellowship awardees (Foreign students).

Part Time:

• Permanent faculty and other permanent staff of NIT, Warangal
• External scholars from National Research Laboratories and PSUs which have MoU with NIT Warangal/R&D Organizations (approved by the Senate) having necessary and required research facilities.

The specialization-wise syllabus is given below:

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NIT Warangal PhD Fees 2023

NIT Warangal charges around INR 7500 per semester for its PhD program. The fee is applicable to both full-time and part-time students. Semester fee is exclusive of other fee charged by NIT Warangal. Other fee charged is INR 32,000 which is bifurcated in the table below:

Note: The selected candidates are required to pay the above mentioned fee online.

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NIT Warangal Fellowship

• All full time scholars admitted under the fellowship program are eligible for scholarship. Part-time candidates and full-time faculty members of the Institute admitted as part time scholars shall not be eligible for any kind of fellowship.
• A person who is employed in the institute temporarily under a project or a scheme or who enjoys an outside scholarship other than QIP/TF, and who has been registered for the Ph degree may be granted, the Institute Research Scholarship on the recommendation of the DSC and DAC-PG & R, subject to the conditions of the rules.

The period of the fellowship in the project/scheme together with the period of institute scholarship should not exceed 5 years.

Transfer from CSIR/UGC etc., individual fellowships and research projects, to the institute scholarship, will be guided by the following:

• One must have completed at least 2 years in a research project/ scheme.
• Individual research scholars from external funding agencies like CSIR/UGC etc. must have completed at least two years as individual fellows.
• The candidates will present their work done so far for their PhD at an open seminar with the DSC and DAC-PG & R. The DAC-PG & R must satisfy that the case is deserving.
• The candidate must be GATE/NET qualified.

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