Aspirants seeking admission to the Program should meet the following criteria as

Academic Requirement:

• must hold the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the concerned discipline of at least five year standing, awarded by this deemed-to-be university or any other university/ deemed university recognized by the UGC or a foreign university recognized by AIU; and
• must have published at least 5 research papers in standard/refereed research journals of repute (indexed in SCOPUS/WOS/ICI or included in the CARE list of UGC- approved journals, with impact factor of at least 2.0 as notified by Thomson Reuters) or
• must have been granted 5 patents. or 
• must have made 5 publications of merit in the form of book/ monographs/ chapters in the edited research-based books, published by international/ national publishers of repute in the proposed area of D.Litt./D.Sc-research or
• must possess a combination of the above, with publications during the last five years, either as the sole author or as the first author or as the corresponding author.

The Degree assigned to various faculties/ areas of studies are as detailed below:

Faculty of Science:

• Life Science
• Chemistry
• Computer Science
• Fashion & Textiles
• Home Science
• Mathematics
• Geography
• Physics
• Psychology