UGC NET Eligibility Criteria For General Candidates:

• You must have scored a minimum of 55% marks in post-graduation (master’s degree) in the concerned subject or any equivalent exam from UGC recognized institute or university.

UGC NET Eligibility Criteria For Other Category Candidates:

• A Candidate belongs to:
  (a) Non-creamy layer, or,
  (b) Scheduled Caste (SC), or,
  (c) Scheduled Tribe (ST), or,
  (d) Persons with disability (PwD)
  and who have scored a minimum of 50% marks in post-graduation (master’s degree) in the concerned subject or any equivalent exam from UGC recognized institute or university can appear for this exam.

UGC NET Eligibility Criteria For Final Year Students:

• Candidates who are pursuing their post-graduation course or who have appeared for the exam of their qualifying PG course & are awaiting the result are eligible to apply for this exam.
• However, only provisional allotment will be granted to such candidates and eligibility for Assistant Professor or the JRF will be granted to such candidates only when they have completed their post-graduation course with the required eligibility criteria.
• The course must be completed within a time duration of 2 years from the NET result date.

UGC NET Eligibility Criteria For the Transgender category:

• Candidates would be eligible to draw the same relaxation in fee, age, and qualifying criteria for NET (for both Junior Research Fellowship and Assistant Professor) as available to SC/ST/PwD categories.
• The subject-wise cut-offs for this category should be the lowest among SC/ST/PwD/OBC–NCL categories in their relevant subject.

UGC NET Eligibility Criteria For Ph.D. Degree holders:

• Ph.D. degree holders whose Master’s level examination has been completed by 19th September 1991 (irrespective of the date of declaration of result) are eligible for a relaxation of 5% in aggregate marks (i.e. from 55% to 50% for General Candidates).