Humanities & Social Sciences

Following is general information about Ph.D. admission, with some variation between different universities. Please check for your eligibility to pursue Ph.D. from the criteria mentioned below:
You should be a graduate with minimum 50% marks
The university advertises about research openings in specific areas and you can apply for a specific field, if your qualifications match. (If you know some of the faculty in the specific field, you are better informed about supervisors, openings etc. )
Each of the registered supervisors for doctoral work will have a limited no of openings, as per the university regulations. A few universities conduct a pre-PhD exam for aspirants before admission of students, while a few others conduct the same exam after admission. The pre-PhD exam generally consists of questions on maths statistics and the specific area or field in which the student aspiers do the doctoral work. Normally, selected student works under the guidance of a supervisor for a minimum period of two years or four semesters, and they need to pay the semester/ year fees till they submit a thesis on the subject area. Regards.

The college you'll be getting into will depend upon your choice, of course, your ECA trails and interviews and best four. Say your best four is 85% (after deductions) and you decided to go for Philosophy you might get into a decent college like Mata Sundri College for Women, Gargi College, Ramanujan, Kamla Nehru College. But if you wish to get into great colleges you must go through ECA trails. Mind you the trails and interviews are pretty peculiar, you need to have at least one national certificate to stand as a considerable candidate. And if you manage to get through ECA, you might have a rise of around 3-10% in you percentage depending on you trail score (30% certificates and 70% on-the-spot-trails) and you'll get into a good college most probably.