Best Career Options After Qualifying UGC NET: How to Get a Job?
University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test 2025 ( UGC NET )
Registration - 7 Oct '25 - 7 Nov '25
The candidates search for other career options after qualifying UGC NET 2024 exam other than being an Assistant Professorship and PhD. Get the best career options after qualifying for the UGC NET exam in the article.
Career Options After UGC NET
Every year thousands of candidates qualify for the UGC NET assistant professorship and JRF and a few of them get enrolled for the PhD or appointed as Assistant professors in private and govt. colleges but the rest of them wait for the vacancies for the same or re-appear for the exam. Candidates who are searching for career options other than the PhD or get an Assistant Professors' job in a college/university must read the article to learn about the career opportunities after qualifying for UGC NET.
- What is UGC NET?
- Best Career Options After UGC NET Exam
- Creative Career Options After UGC NET
- Career Options in Academics after UGC NET
- How to Get Jobs Using the UGC NET Academic Portal?
- Career Growth After Assistant Professor
What is UGC NET?
UGC NET stands for University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test conducted to determine the eligibility to become an Assistant Professor or get JRF (Junior Research Fellowship) to pursue PhD in an Indian University. It is conducted twice a year as the June cycle and December cycle. The candidates preparing for the UGC NET must be prepared for the high competition as every year around 6 to 8 lakh candidates appear for the exam and only the top six percent are declared qualified for the exam.
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Best Career Options After UGC NET Exam
Candidates in search for other career options other than an Assistant Professorship or JRF must read the article. Public Limited Companies like THDC India Pvt. Ltd. and PGCIL release vacancy to recruit UGC NET qualified candidates. The vacancies that are released by the THDC and PGCIL to recruit candidates are given in the table.
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| Public Sector Undertakings |
Post |
Discipline |
|---|---|---|
| THDC India Limited |
Executive Trainee - Human Resource |
Labour Welfare/Personnel Management/Industrial Relations/Labour & Social Welfare/Human Resources Management |
| Executive Trainee - Public Relations |
Mass Communication & Journalism |
|
| PGCIL |
Assistant Officer Trainee (HR) |
Labour Welfare/ Personnel Management/ Industrial Relations/ Labour & Social Welfare/ Human Resources Management |
| Management Trainee (HR) |
Labour Welfare/ Personnel Management/ Industrial Relations/ Labour & Social Welfare/ Human Resources Management |
Other than these Public Limited Companies, there are other PSUs in which the candidates can search for job options. The list of these PSUs has been given below:
- Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL)
- Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)
- National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC)
- Power Grid Corporation of India Limited
- Naval Materials Research Laboratory (NMRL)
- Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)
- Bharat Electricals Limited (BEL)
- Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL)
- Oil India Limited (OIL)
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Creative Career Options After UGC NET
Sometimes candidates search for creative jobs that suit their personality and can't do jobs on a set pattern. There are jobs that the candidates who have qualified for the UGC NET exam can look up to:
- Author
- Lyricist
- Scriptwriter
- Editor
- Content Writing
- Copywriting, and More
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Career Options in Academics after UGC NET
Candidates who want to be academics but do not wish to take up jobs in colleges and universities can do the following things:
- Become an online educator
- Start Teaching Platform
- Become Guest Faculty
- UGC NET Course Designing for Coaching
How to Get Jobs Using the UGC NET Academic Portal?
Candidates can get jobs through the UGC NET academic portal. The steps to apply for the UGC NET academic portal are given below:
- Go to the UGC NET academic portal
- Register on the UGC NET academic portal
- Fill out the details asked on the application form
- The job list will appear on the screen according to the suitability of the candidate
Career Growth After Assistant Professor
The candidates who opt to become assistant professors after qualifying for the UGC NET exam can check their career growth below:
- Junior Assistant Professor
- Senior Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor (Selection Grade)
- Associate Professor
- Professor
- General Head
- Vice Chancellor
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Student Forum
Anything you would want to ask experts?Answered a week ago
The Commission is expected to soon release the UGC NET notification for the December session in the form of PDF. It will be released at ugcnet.nta.ac.in.
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Contributor-Level 6
Answered a month ago
There are several books available in the market that consist of the UGC NET practice sets. Also, some standard guidebooks include model test papers for the practicing of the UGC NET exam. Online test series are also available for the candidates who are aspiring to prepare for the UGC NET exam.
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered a month ago
Candidates can check below the important books that can be used for the preparation for UGC NET paper 2 Commerce and English.
Commerce: Some of the books are Trueman's UGC NET Commerce, CB Gupta's Business Organisation, etc.
English: Some of the books are Arihant UGC NET English Literature, History of
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Contributor-Level 6
Answered a month ago
The National Testing Agency (NTA) will conduct the December session of the UGC NET 2025 exam. The notification is not released yet. It is conducted to determine the eligibility of candidates for the post of Assistant Professor, the award of Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), and the admission to Ph.D
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Contributor-Level 6
Answered 2 months ago
After BA, you need to pursue an MA in Urdu (or a related subject).
Once you complete or are in the final year of your MA, you can apply for UGC NET in Urdu.
In short:
BA alone cannot fulfill the eligibility for UGC NET.
The eligibility for UGC NET is MA in Urdu (or related field) with 55%+ marks
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Contributor-Level 6
Answered 2 months ago
No, PhD students aren't exempt from UGC-NET or CSIR-NET. To get admission in a PhD course, UGC is requesting institutions to integrate NET scores.
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered 2 months ago
The UGC NET 2025 December session exam will be conducted online in Computer Based Test (CBT) mode at various centress across the country. The exam is administered by the National Testing Agency (NTA), and candidates must select their answers on a computer screen during the allotted time for each par
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Contributor-Level 6
UGC NET Notifications
When will the UGC NET December notification 2025 be released?