UGC NET Eligibility Criteria 2025 - Age limit, Qualification, Marks, Reservation

UGC NET Eligibility Criteria 2025 - National Testing Agency provides the UGC NET eligibility criteria 2025 for the June session on the official website. The UGC NET 2025 eligibility criteria is elaborated in the official NET notification at ugcnet.nta.ac.in. The UGC NET eligibility criteria comprises of the age limit, academic qualifications and other such conditions that candidates need to fulfill to be considered eligible for UGC NET exam. Candidates who meet the eligibility criteria can fill out the UGC NET 2025 application form.

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1. UGC NET Eligibility Criteria 2025
2. UGC NET Eligibility Criteria 2025 - Reservations
3. UGC NET Eligibility Criteria - Application Form

The minimum academic qualification for the NTA UGC NET 2025 eligibility is a post-graduation degree, and those who are awaiting the result of their master's degree can also apply for UGC NET. The age limit for JRF is not more than 30 years. However, according to the UGC NET eligibility criteria 2025, there is no upper age limit for Assistant Professors/Lecturers. To know more about the UGC NET eligibility criteria, read the full article below.

UGC NET Eligibility Criteria 2025

Candidates must go through the UGC NET 2025 eligibility criteria before applying. UGC NET is conducted twice every year to determine the qualifying status for candidates aspiring to be JRF and Assistant Professors. Below is the age limit for different posts under UGC NET 2025:

UGC NET Age Limit 2025

Note: The JRF age limit for general category is not more than 30 years.

Read More: UGC NET 2025 Exam Pattern

UGC NET Age Relaxation 2025

The UGC NET 2025 age relaxation details is given in the table below:

Age Relaxation For UGC NET 2025

UGC NET Eligibility Criteria 2025 - Educational Qualifications

As per the UGC NET qualification, candidates have to fulfill certain educational qualifications to be eligible for UGC NET exam 2025. The UGC NET 2025 educational qualifications have been specified below:

• General/ unreserved/ General-EWS candidates must have a score of at least 55% in their Master's degree/ equivalent examination (MA, M.Sc, M.Com, M.Tech, MBA, etc.). The OBC/ SC/ ST/ PwD/ other gender categories must have a score of at least 50% in their Master's degree / equivalent examination to write this test.

• Candidates who are pursuing their Master's degree or candidates who have appeared for their qualifying masters degree or candidates whose qualifying examination has been delayed are also eligible for this exam. Such candidates must complete their Master’s degree within 2 years from the date of the NET results.

• Candidates who are from the third gender category will have the lowest subject-wise cut off compared to the other lower categories.

• Candidates are advised to appear in the subject of their Post- Graduation only.

• The candidates who have passed the 4 year bachelor's degree program must have a percentage of 75%. A relaxation of 5% marks or its equivalent may be allowed for backward castes ( SC/ST/OBC).

• Candidates who are still pursuing their 4 year bachelor's degree may also apply for the exam. However, the candidates will be awarded the JRF/ admission to Ph.D only after fulfilling certain requirements.

• Candidates who are doing their Bachelors degree can choose the subject of their choice in the NET exam in the discipline they want to pursue their Ph.D.

UGC NET 2025 Eligibility Criteria - Subject Relevance (Masters)

Candidates while applying for UGC NET 2025 must make sure that they select the test for the subject they have studied in their post-graduation. In case the subject of the candidate is not given in the list given by NTA, candidates can choose the relevant subject from the list as per their preference.

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• UGC NET Admit Card
• UGC NET Result

UGC NET 2025 Eligibility for JRF

Candidates who are appearing for UGC NET JRF are eligible for both Assistant Professors and fellowships programs. A candidate who qualifies for JRF will also be deemed qualified for a Lectureship. However, if any candidate qualifies for Lectureship won’t be considered qualified for JRF. In such a case, candidates will be considered for Lectureship only.

UGC NET Eligibility Criteria 2025 - Exemption (Eligibility for Assistant Professor)

• Candidates must have qualified `NET/SET/SLAT to be appointed as Assistant Professors. In this case, the exemption (from appearing in NET/SET/SLET) will be governed by UGC regulations and amendments notified in the Gazette of India from time to time.

• Candidates who have qualified for the UGC/CSIR JRF exam before the year 1990 are exempted from appearing for the UGC NET 2025 exam.

• Those candidates who have qualified for the State Eligibility Tests (SETs) before the year 2002 are also exempted from appearing for UGC NET 2025. However, such candidates will have to apply for Assistant Professors in the Universities/Colleges of the state of which they have qualified the SET.

Eligibility criteria of other TET exams

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• OTET Eligibility Criteria
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UGC NET Eligibility Criteria 2025 - Reservations

In UGC NET the reservation policy of the Government of India is applicable as per which in central universities and Institutions the reservation of seats shall be as follows:

• 15% seats for Scheduled Castes (SC) candidates.
• 7.5% seats for Scheduled Tribes (ST) candidates.
• 27% seats for Other Backward Classes (OBC) Non-Creamy Layer (NCL) candidates.
• 10% for General - Economically Weaker Sections candidates.
• 5% seats in the above-mentioned categories for Persons with Disability (PwD) with 40% or more disability.

For detailed information on the UGC NET eligibility criteria 2025 aspirants are advised to download the UGC NET information brochure.

UGC NET Eligibility Criteria - Application Form

The National Testing Agency will open the UGC NET application correction window on may 14, 15, 2025 on the official website at ugcnet.nta.nic.in. The last date to submit the UCG NET application form was May 12, 2025 (extended date). NTA released the UGC NET June 2025 application form in online mode on April 16, 2025. The UGC NET exam 2025 application form will be available in online mode only. Candidates need to upload scanned copies of their photograph and signature along with the payment of the application fee to successfully complete the UGC NET 2025 application process.