UGC NET 2025 December exam schedule announced for assistant professor, JRF, PhD; subject-wise dates

Sundararajan | December 18, 2025 | 01:27 PM IST | 2 mins read

UGC NET Admit Card 2025: The NTA will issue the NET exam city intimation slip 10 days before the exam date, ie, by December 21, on the official website, ugcnet.nta.ac.in.

UGC NET 2025 December exam schedule announced for assistant professor, JRF, PhD (Image: freepick)
UGC NET 2025 December exam schedule announced for assistant professor, JRF, PhD (Image: freepick)

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has announced the exam schedule for the University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (UGC NET 2025) December session. As per the UGC NET 2025 exam dates, the NTA will conduct the exam from December 31 to January 7.

As per the schedule, the NTA will issue the computer-based UGC NET 2025 city intimation slip at least 10 days before the exam. Accordingly, candidates can expect the UGC NET 2025 exam city slip download link around December 21.

Candidates can check their allotted exam city through the city intimation slip, and the UGC NET 2025 admit card will be issued afterwards. The UGC NET December 2025 exam will be held to assess candidates’ eligibility for assistant professor posts, Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), and PhD admissions.

Also read CSIR UGC NET December 2025 exam today in two shifts; subject-wise question count, marking scheme

UGC NET December 2025: Exam schedule, timing

The UGC NET 2025 exam schedule for the December session is provided below, listed by subject. The morning shift will run from 9 am to 12 noon, while the afternoon shift will be held from 3 pm to 6 pm.

UGC NET exam date

Morning shift

Afternoon shift

December 31

Law


Social work

Telugu

Tourism administration and management

Spanish

Prakrit

Kashmiri

Konkani

January 2

Computer Science and Applications

Sociology

Library and Information Science

Psychology

Urdu

Philosophy

Forensic Science

Oriya

Bengali

Yoga

Arabic

Punjabi

Bodo

Social Medicine & Community Health

Human Rights and Duties

Women Studies

January 3

Commercе

Geography

Sanskrit

Education

Santali

Folk Literature

Criminology

Maithili

Politics, including International Relations/International Studies, including Defence/Strategic Studies: West Asian Studies; South East Asian Studies; African Asian Studies: South East Asian Studies: African Studies: South Asian Studies; South Asian Studies; Soviet Studies; American Studies

Indian Culture

Disaster Management

Persian

Museology and Conservation

Comparative Study of Religions

January 5

English

History

Sanskrit traditional subjects (including) Jyotisha/Sidhanta Jyotish/ Navya Vyakarna/ Vyakarna/ Mimansa/ Navya Nyaya/ Sankhya Yoga/ Tulanatmaka Darsan/ Shukla Yajurveda/ Nadhav Vedant/ Dharmasasta/ Sahitya/ Puranotihasa /Agama).

Visual Art (including Drawing and Painting/Sculpture Graphies/Applied Art/History of Art)

Anthropology

Assamese

Adult Education/ Continuing Education/ Andragogy' Non-Formal Education.

Tribal and Regional Language/Literature

French (French Version)

Archaeology

Dogri

Gujarati

Russian

Rajasthani

Chinese

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January 6

Political Science

Hindi

Defence and Strategic Studies

Tamil

Arab Culture and Islamic Studies

Mass Communication and Journalism

Hindu Studies

Kannada

Nepali

Malayalam

Comparative Literature

Manipuri

Japanese

Indian Knowledge Systems

Sindhi

German

January 7

Economics/ Rural Economics/ Co-operation/ Demography/ Development Planning/ Development Studies / Econometrics/ Applied Economics/ Development Eco./ Business Economics

Environmental Sciences

Management (including Business Admn. Ngt./ Marketing/ Marketing Ngt./ lndustrial Relations and Personnel Ngt./ Personnel Mgt./ Financial Ngt./, Co-operative Management)

Home Science

Public Administration

Physical Education

Population Studies

Labour Welfare/Personnel Management/Industrial Relations/ Labour and Social Welfare/Human Resource Management

Linguistics

Electronic Science

Buddhist; Jaina; Gandhian and Peace Studies

Music

Ayurveda Biology

Marathi

Pali

Performing Arts - Dance/ Drama/ Theatre

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