It is one of India’s leading universities placed in Ahmedabad (Gujarat). It was authorized in the year 2003 as a Statutory University down a main act passed by the Gujarat State Legislative Assembly. It is admit by the (UGC) under Section 2 (f) of the UGC Act. The Campus is duly recognized by National Assessment and Accreditation Council. Also it is a member of Association of Indian Universities and the Association of Commonwealth Universities.

Library

Library of this campus is cleaned and fully A/c and there are all books for students related to their education. There are seven Institutes namely, Institute of Pharmacy, Institute of Law, Institute of Science, Institute of Architecture, Planning and Institute of Commerce & Department of Design offering Under Graduate, Institute of Technology, Institute of Management, Post Graduate, managerial Diploma course and Doctoral Studies in various arms of human learning. Each convention has a full-fledged Library Resource Centre.

Libraries Established Under Nirma University:

Library Services

Nirma University Libraries with an goal to provide simple access to the correct information at the correct time to all its customers provide a package of high quality, customer aimed services to support the teaching & learning; development and research activities of faculty, candidates, and all staff members. It also offer main services like circulation, reference service, referral service, Inter library loan facility, photocopy service, library membership, reading facility, and book-bank service. We will also distribute many value-added services like, current awareness services, Selective Dissemination of Information, remote log-in facility, computerized information search, and handle few customers study programmes.

Nirma University Ph.D. Admission

In the year 2003 Nirma University started Doctoral Programmes. The Announcement in the Newspapers/Website is also published about admissions in various Ph.D. programmes which are scheduled annually. University offers Full-time and Part-Time Ph.D. programmes. The Ph.D. Programmes in the University are offered by the Faculty of Management, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Technology & Engineering and Faculty of Architecture.

Date of Entrance Test - 18/05/2019

Attendance Requirement

A research scholar is expected to have full (100%) attendance in each course who is pursuing course-work as a part of his Ph. D. Programme. By the Dean, Faculty of Doctoral Studies & Research for genuine reasons a maximum of 30% attendance may be condoned.

Eligibility

Candidate shall have a Master's degree with at least 55% marks in aggregate or its equivalent grade 'B' in the UGC 7-point scale or a professional degree declared equivalent to the Master’s degree.

Entrance Test

Qualifying marks for Entrance Test are 50%. The syllabus of the Entrance Test shall be 50% of subject-specific 50% of research methodology.
Candidates shall be exempted from appearing in the entrance test who have passed M.Phil programme and candidates who qualify the UGC-NET (Including JRF) UGC-CSIR NET (Including JRF) SLET/ GATE/GPAT.

Interview

For the proposed research the candidate possesses the competence.
At the Institution the research work can be suitably undertaken.
On the merit of interview/viva-voce, final merit shall be based.

Nirma University

Nirma University (NU) is a private university situated in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. It functions under the aegis of the Nirma Education and Research Foundation that is NERF. The Gujarat Government has granted the"Centre of Excellence" status to Nirma University.

Nirma University Ph.D. course Admission

Nirma University offers full-time as well as part-time Ph.D. study programs in the streams of Engineering, Management, Science, Law, Pharmacy and Architecture. Admission is done on the basis of an entrance exam followed by an interview round.

UGC-NET (Including JRF) UGC-CSIR NET (Including JRF) SLET / GATE / GPAT passed aspirants can also apply for admission. Teacher fellowship holders or those who have passed the M.Phil study program will be exempted from appearing in the entrance exam and deemed to be qualified for a personal interview.

Ph.D. The entrance Test will consist 50% of questions from Research Methodology and 50% from subject-specific Knowledge. Students have to secure at least 50% marks in the entrance test.

Course Name Specialization Eligibility Criteria Selection Criteria

Ph.D. (Full-Time) Catalysis and Reaction Engineering, Renewable Resources Master’s course degree OR M.Phil degree in the related discipline with at least 55% marks scored in aggregate Written Exam and Interview round conducted by the University OR CSIR-NET/ UGC-NET/ SLET/ GPAT or GATE score

Industrial Effluent Treatment, Nanotechnology

Catalysis & Reaction Engineering, Biofuels, Green Process Development

Phase equilibrium / simulations

Heterogeneous Catalysis, Automotive Emission Control Technology, Urban Pollution Control Technology, Waste Water Treatment Technology and Non-conventional Energy

Polymer Technology

Environmental Process Design, Green Engineering, Green chemistry

Structural Engineering

Application of Geomatics

Data Analytics, Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition.

Machine Learning, Image & Video Processing

Cloud computing, software Engineering, high-performance computing, software-defined networking,

Computer Networks

Data & Web Mining, Machine Learning, Soft Computing

Sensor Cloud, Communication in Smart Grid Systems, Role of Communication system in Healthcare

Image and Video Processing, Remote sensing data processing

Networking, Machine Learning Pattern recognition

Power Electronics and Power Quality

Electrical Power System / High Voltage Engineering / Electrical Machines

Power system, optimization techniques

Power Electronics applications to Power System,

Power Quality, Artificial Intelligence based Power Electronic Systems

Control Engineering, Soft Computing Applications, Industrial Automation

Process Control, Control System Engineering

Manufacturing Processes and their analysis

Renewable Energy, Biomass Gasification, Biofuels, Thermal systems & Applications

Renewable Energy Systems

Mechanical Vibrations, Dynamics of Machines & NanoMechanics

Stress Analysis, Fracture Mechanics

Alternate Fuel, Dynamics of Complex Fluid, Fluid Dynamics

Mechanics of Composite Materials, Robotics

Optimization, MEMS, Dynamics, Micro-Mechanics

Thermal & Fluid Systems

Ph.D. (Part-Time) Digital Signal Processing, Image Processing, Microprocessors/Microcontrollers, Soft Computing Master’s degree OR M.Phil in the related discipline with at least 55% marks in aggregate Written Test and Interview conducted by the University OR CSIR-NET/ UGC-NET/ SLET/ GPAT or GATE score

Antennas and RF Communications

VLSI & Embedded System Design

VLSI Design & Test

Wireless Communication / Mobile Communication

Image and Video Processing, Remote sensing data processing

Internet of Things, Wireless Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

VLSI Design

Optical Communication & Wireless Networks

Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Pharmaceutical Analysis

Pharmacology

Pharmaceutics