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Do scientific research

Working on questions nobody has answered yet, at an institution built around laboratories. A separate track from engineering and medicine, entered through its own examinations.

What the work actually is

  • Long projects, most of which do not work, which is the normal state of research
  • Reading published work closely enough to find what it did not settle
  • A degree that leads on to a doctorate more often than to a job at twenty-one

Subjects that keep this open

  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Biology
  • Mathematics

Guidance, not a rule. Each route publishes its own subject requirements, and those are what count.

3 recorded routes

Every way in that we have mapped

Ordered alphabetically. None of these is presented as better than another; which one fits depends on things this page does not know about you.

  1. After Class 12Selective, with more places than the best-known routes

    CUET-UG, then a B.Sc and a master’s

    1. Step 1. Sit CUET-UG in the relevant science subjects.
    2. Step 2. Take a three-year B.Sc at a central or participating university, then a master’s, then a doctorate.

    The longer and much more common route into research. It arrives at the same doctorate; it simply does not begin at an institution with "research" in its name.

    Where to check this

  2. After Class 12Many more applicants than places

    IISER Aptitude Test, then a five-year integrated master’s

    1. Step 1. Sit the IISER Aptitude Test.
    2. Step 2. Admission is to the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research, on a five-year integrated BS-MS.

    A research track from the first year, not a science degree with research bolted on at the end.

    Where to check this

  3. After Class 12Many more applicants than places

    NEST, for NISER and CEBS

    1. Step 1. Sit the National Entrance Screening Test.
    2. Step 2. Admission is to NISER Bhubaneswar and the UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mumbai.

    A separate examination from the IISER one, for a comparable integrated master’s. Sitting both is normal.

    Where to check this

Before you plan around any of these

Every route above links to the body that runs it. Eligibility, age limits, medical standards, subject requirements and dates are set by those bodies and change between cycles — we record what the route is and where to check it, and we do not track its dates. Read the official page before you decide anything.

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