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About Course
NCRA-TIFR conducts a regular doctoral research programme for students interested in pursuing a career in research in astronomy or radio instrumentation; the Ph.D. degree is conferred by the TIFR Deemed University. Students are selected for the doctoral programme via three main avenues, the Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST), the IUCAA-NCRA Admission Test (INAT), and the TIFR entrance test (conducted by TIFR-Mumbai). All three selection methods are based on a written test and two interviews. The three exams are typically conducted every year in early December (TIFR test), early January (INAT) and mid-February (JEST), with the interviews in March of the following year (TIFR), early January (INAT) and late June (JEST). Besides these, NCRA also pre-selects Research Scholars from our Visiting Student Research Programme, conducted every summer in Pune.
