Applications are invited for admission in the Ph.D. program for the session 2024 in its North Orissa University. Candidates who want to take admission can apply on the official website of the university. An application can be downloaded from the site www.nou.nic.in. Appropriately filled in application must be sent by the Head of the Department and the Head of the Institution, where the competitor expects to do examine. 

Subjects offered in Doctor of Philosophy

• Ph.D. in English
• Ph.D. in Biotechnology
• Ph.D. in Botany
• Ph.D. in Chemistry
• Ph.D. in Computer Science and IT
• Ph.D. in Economics
• Ph.D. in Life Science
• Ph.D. in Law
• Ph.D. in Physics
• Ph.D. in Odia
• Ph.D. in Sanskrit
• Ph.D. in Santali
• Ph.D. in Zoology

Methods of Ph.D. Program 

• Full-Time Ph.D. Program: Applicants under full-time mode are relied upon to accomplish research work in the Campus and ought to be accessible during the working hours for curricular, co-curricular, and related exercises. Competitors who are working and need to seek after examination in full-time mode ought to be supported by their manager and should benefit leave during the exploration time frame or ought to get officially assuaged from their obligation to join the exploration program. 
• Part-Time (Internal) Ph.D. Program: Any employee of University having the base recommended capabilities and two years' understanding or as might be chosen by the Board every once in a while can apply in the endorsed structure to take a shot at Part-Time reason for the Ph.D. degree. Competitors with essential capabilities working in research ventures in Campus and chose by a determination board of trustees comprised/endorsed by Vel Tech are qualified to enroll for Ph.D. in the wake of placing in, at any rate, a half year of administration in the undertaking and the venture ought to have a legitimate residency of at any rate two years from the date of accommodation of use by the applicant. 
• Part-Time (Extramural) Ph.D. Program: Applicants functioning as instructors in other PG and expert universities in stable situations and supported by their manager's competitors supported by R&D associations of following classifications are qualified to apply to take a shot at Part-Time reason for the Ph.D. degree and will be called Part-time extramural applicants. Competitors working in modern units/R&D Departments/National Laboratories/Units of Government/Quasi-Government or some other exploration labs which are perceived by Vel Tech to do community research with Vel Tech and supported by the individual business. 

Qualification 

• For admission into a Ph.D. program candidates should have a Master's qualification with 55% marks. 
• To SC/ST/OBC (non-velvety layer)/Differently-abled and different classifications of competitors a relaxation of 5% of marks will be given. 
• Applicants with M.Phil. degree, having in any event 55% marks can also apply.

Admission Procedure

• A candidate who wants to take admission to Ph.D. is required to write the entrance examination.
• The syllabus for entrance examination is available in the website.
• The entrance examination consists of 50% subject-specific questions and 50% of the research methodology.
• Candidates will be exempted from writing the entrance examinations who have cleared Teacher-Fellowships/MPhil/NET/SLET/UGC/CSIR(JRF)/other National level eligibility test.
• To qualify for the personal interview candidate should secure 50% marks in the entrance examination.
• A candidate who has cleared the entrance examination shall be called for the personal interview. In the interview, candidates are required to discuss their research interest/ area before a duly constituted Departmental Research Committee through a PowerPoint presentation.
• After verification of original certificates and payment of prescribed fee structure for Ph.D. selected candidates shall be provisionally admitted for the Ph.D. program.

Application Process

• Candidates can apply online at the university’s website www.veltechuniv.edu.in
• Step 1: New User Registration
• Step 2: Sign In for Registered Users
• Step 3: Filling Online application form
• Step 4: Upload the Photo, Signature & required Documents
• Step 5: Mode of payment
• Step 6: Download filled-in application form

About University

The North Orissa University (NOU) was set up by the Government of Orissa on thirteenth July 1998. The primary University grounds at Baripada is named Sriram Chandra Vihar after Sriram Chandra BhanjaDeo (1871-1912) who was the illuminated Maharaja of Mayurbhanj from 1892 to 1912. He is recollected even now for his capable organization. Sriram Chandra Vihar is situated at the edges of Baripada town and one km away from NH 18. It is 250 km from Kolkata and 260 km from the State capital Bhubaneswar. It is likewise all around associated with all spots of the State. The establishment stone at Baripada was laid by Honorable Sj. Giridhar Gamango, Chief Minister, Odisha on thirteenth July 1999, and the current grounds was introduced by His Excellency Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, President of India on fifteenth May 2003. The second Campus of NOU came to present at Suleikhamar (in Keonjhar) covering 13.05 sections of land since sixth November 2015 and turned out to be scholastically utilitarian with impact from the 2017-18 scholarly meeting. 

At present, the University gives Post-Graduate training in eight subjects at Baripada grounds and five subjects at Keonjhar grounds through particular ordinary divisions. Also, self-financing courses in 15 subjects are bestowed at its Baripada Campus. Moreover, the University offers M.Phil. also, Ph.D. programs in the ordinary divisions. In the interim, managerial endorsement has been gotten for opening eight all the more new ordinary courses at its Baripada grounds. Four of the ordinary P.G. Offices have been conceded departmental exploration uphold from UGC and DST under Special Assistance Program (SAP) and FIST programs, separately. A few individual activities have been supported by UGC, DST, DAE, CSIR, ICSSR, and different organizations. The University likewise offers 17 general and expert courses at various levels through the Directorate of Distance and Continuing Education (DDCE) of University. The University has embraced the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) with semester design assessments and grade point assessment framework in all courses. The method of instructing in all courses in English aside from Language courses.

The vision of the University

• North Orissa University is devoted to giving a top-notch instructing learning atmosphere in advanced education so as to prep the understudies to be mentally responsive, socially mindful, morally delicate and expertly equipped, empowered to seek after essential and applied examination in boondocks regions of language and writing, science and innovation, law and the executives. It is imagined that the University develops as an amazing operator of dispersing and propelling information, greatness, and value and cultivating network linkage exercises in this manner contributing towards an illuminated and reasonable common society. As country building relies essentially on human capital, North Orissa University targets going about as a signal to this district to pull up the oppressed youth to the public standard of craftsmanship, culture, science, and innovation. 

The mission of the University

• Giving a sheltered and useful space helpful for picking up, working, and leading examination by prudence of polished methodology, greatness, collaboration, and natural stewardship. 
• Giving a spotless, proficient, and straightforward arrangement of organization, an affirmation of understudies, leading assessments, assessment and distribution of results. 
• Empowering the University to embody the most elevated standards of social value, sexual orientation equity, and empathy for the powerless and distraught 
• Advancing vocation movement of University/College instructors by kept refreshing of information in bleeding-edge zones of between disciplinary examination, current patterns in curricular movements, strategy standards, and related contemporary issues and difficulties