National Eligibility Test (NET) is conducted in 77 subjects at 66 selected university centres around the country. It is conducted in Humanities (including languages), Social Sciences, Forensic Science, Environmental Sciences, Computer Science and Applications and Electronic Science.

Every year 150 candidates are awarded Junior Research Fellowship depending upon their perforamnce in the written examination.

Among this, 120 will be for Bio-medical science with emphasis on Life Science for subject’s microbiology, molecular biology, genetics, physiology, bio informatics, bio technology, immunology, human biology, Envrl. science and the like.

30 will be for Social science subjects like Psychology, sociology, home science, statistics, and anthropology and health economics.

Apart from this, another 100 will be selected on various subjects and scheme.