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

Constitutional Law

Environmental Law and Allied areas

Criminal Law

Constitutional Law

Microbiology / Biotechnology/ Immunology /

Parasitology

Analytical Chemistry

Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics

Biochemistry

International Business

Marketing

Economics & Finance

Housing, Urban Design, Environmental Desig