UGC NET December 2024 exam from January 3; subject-wise schedule out at ugcnet.nta.ac.in
NTA UGC NET December 2024 Exam: The notification for intimation of the exam city centre will be issued eight days before the exam on the official website, ugcnet.nta.ac.in.

Vikas Kumar Pandit | December 20, 2024 | 07:52 AM IST
NEW DELHI: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has revised the University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (UGC NET) December 2024 exam dates. As per the notification, the UGC NET December 2024 exam will now be held from January 3 to January 16, 2025. The testing agency has also issued the subject-wise exam schedule for UGC NET December 2024.
“The National Testing Agency (NTA) will conduct UGC – NET December 2024 for (i) ‘award of Junior Research Fellowship and appointment as Assistant Professor’, (ii) ‘appointment as Assistant Professor and admission to Ph.D.’ and (iii) ‘admission to Ph.D. only’ for 85 subjects in CBT, mode from 03rd January 2025 to 16th January 2025,” the official notification read.
The UGC NET December 2024 exam will be conducted for 85 subjects in Computer Based Test (CBT) mode. The exam will be conducted in two shifts: shift 1 will run from 9 am to 12 pm, and shift 2 will be held from 3 pm to 6 pm. NTA will issue the notification for intimation of the exam city centre eight days before the exam on its official website ugcnet.nta.ac.in.
As per the initial notification, the UGC NET December 2024 exam was scheduled to be conducted from January 1 to January 19, 2025. The application submission window for the December session closed on December 11, 2024, following a one-day extension.
Also read CSIR UGC NET 2024 December registration begins today; exam from February 16 to 28
UGC NET December 2024: Exam schedule
The UGC NET December 2024 exam schedule along with the subject name, exam date and time is given in the table below.
Date of Exam |
Subject Name (Shift 1) |
Subject Name (Shift 2) |
January 3, 2025 |
Public Administration |
Economics / Rural Economics /Co- operation / Demography / Development Planning/Development Studies / Econometrics/ Applied Economics / Development Economics / Business Economics |
Education |
Museology & Conservation |
|
January 6, 2025 |
Computer Science and Applications |
Political Science |
Persian |
Comparative Literature |
|
Russian |
|
|
Bengali |
|
|
Chinese |
|
|
Rajasthani |
|
|
Arab Culture and Islamic Studies |
|
|
January 7. 2025 |
Commerce |
English |
|
Yoga |
|
January 8, 2025 |
Hindi |
Assamese |
Manipuri |
Santali |
|
Kannada |
Social Work |
|
|
Home Science |
|
Music |
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Adult Education/ Continuing |
||
Education/ Andragogy/ Non-Formal Education. |
||
Indian Culture |
||
Buddhist, Jaina, Gandhian and Peace |
||
Studies |
||
Archaeology |
||
January 9, 2025 |
Punjabi |
Maithili |
Tamil |
Arabic |
|
Geography |
Gujarati |
|
Marathi |
Management (including Business Admn. Mgt./Marketing / Marketing Mgt. / Industrial Relations and Personnel Mgt. / Personnel Mgt. / Financial Mgt. /Co-operative Management) |
|
|
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Oriya |
Telugu |
|
Physical Education |
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Sanskrit traditional subjects (including Jyotisha/Sidhanta Jyotish/ Navya Vyakarna/ Vyakarna/ Mimansa/ Navya Nyaya/ Sankhya Yoga/ Tulanatmaka Darsan/ Shukla Yajurveda/ Madhav Vedant/ Dharmasasta/ Sahitya/ Puranotihasa/Agama) |
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Ayurveda Biology |
||
Disaster Management |
||
January 10, 2025 |
History |
Defence and Strategic Studies |
Pali |
Population Studies |
|
Prakrit |
Linguistics |
|
Bodo |
Psychology |
|
Anthropology |
||
Visual Art (including Drawing & Painting/Sculpture Graphics/Applied Art/History of Art) |
||
Social Medicine & Community Health |
||
Forensic Science |
||
Tourism Administration and Management. |
||
January 15, 2025 |
Sanskrit |
Indian Knowledge System |
Mass Communication and Journalism |
Malayalam |
|
Japanese |
Urdu |
|
Performing Art - Dance/Drama/Theatre |
Labour Welfare / Personnel Management / Industrial Relations/ Labour and Social Welfare / Human Resource Management |
|
Electronic Science |
Criminology |
|
Women Studies |
Tribal and Regional Language/Literature |
|
Law |
Folk Literature |
|
Nepali |
Konkani |
|
Environmental Sciences |
||
January 16, 2025 |
Sociology |
Library and Information Science |
German |
Politics including International Relations/International Studies including Defence / Strategic Studies, West Asian Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, African Studies, South Asian Studies, Soviet Studies, American Studies. |
|
Sindhi |
Human Rights and Duties |
|
French (French Version) |
Hindu Studies |
|
Dogri |
||
Spanish |
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Comparative Study of Religions |
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Philosophy |
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Kashmiri |
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