FAQs

Ph.D. in Physics through CSIR or GATE

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Cracking CSIR is always advantageous if you want to go for research in any basic science and applied science subjects. GATE qualified candidates can also pursue Ph. D but the condition is the rank should be very high. Not only Ph. D , top rankers in GATE are eligible for competing for Shyam Prasad Mukherjee (SPM) fellowship also. Its better if you have a fellowship from CSIR or UGC. It helps to enter in Ph.D. course of any university or research organisation easily. Once you are qualified in CSIR it is your choice to select the institute and guide as well.

If you are not able to get any fellowship then the only option lies in joining in a project with some scientist or Professor in any University in your field. Further you can pursue your doctoral degree if concerned professor has a project in which there is a JRF position. Following premier educational institutions offer courses in Physics:

1. Indian Institutes of Technology (There are Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. Courses in IIT Kharagpur for which admission will be through IIT JAM.
2. Central Universities. Most of the central universities along with University of Hyderabad, Delhi University, Pune University offering Physics course.
3. There are centrally funded laboratories to offer research courses in the basic discipline such as Physics.
4. State level universities like Osmania University, Bharatiar University, Calicut University also offer M.Sc. and Ph.D in Physics.
5. Anna University, Chennai, Tamilnadu offers good programme.

Admission to all of these institutes will be through entrance examinations by respective universities and boards. Most of universities conduct objective type entrance tests for M.Sc. Courses and Objective / Descriptive tests for Research Courses. You can get more details of admissions through concerned university website.

MBA Correspondence after IT experience

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An aspiring manager asked, ‘I did B.Tech (ECE) and I am having 9 years experience in Software industry. Please suggest good Institute for MBA (Finance) correspondence course. Is it good for my career? Here I am mentioning few Institutions which I know.. 1.IGNOU 2. Symbiosis 3.Osmania University. Please suggest few good Institutes from your side.

Answer: Your thought processes is very good and wish you a great time ahead. All the Institutes you mentioned have a good course curriculum and I have seen people benefited from all these done finance with lot of experience in software industry. The courses pursued seriously by each of the member benefited in working effectively in their jobs back. However, for better exposure and interaction with the external world, explore a part-time course (after office hours) offered by few of the Business Institutes in AP (VJIM and IPE to name few). However in the case of distance more, if you have people around who can help you in understanding the Finance perspective in Business in your current organisation or experts.

Job or MBA after B.Com: Taking positive of not able to do MBA, please do focus on securing a job with your qualification right away so that you get hands on working experience. May be couple of years of work experience you would be able to assess yourself better and based on which decide on doing MBA program with a specialization you have interest.

Where to apply for HR and Finance Jobs: You need to be sure on what is the area that you are interested in and want to focus on. Most of the HR / Finance jobs are filled especially at entry level by Reference. There are a few other jobs related to the Recruiter, Credit Officer etc., are published where you can check through any of the job sites and news paper advertisements. List and spot the companies who have in Hyderabad (other location if you are interested) and review their websites and identify if you know or can get a contact in that company and approach the concerned HR department for a job. Alternatively review the Industry associations like NASSCOM, CII, FAPCI and FICCI etc to understand the industry.

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