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Admission & Application: Admission to the integrated M.Phil.+Ph.D. Programme is made once every academic year (in June/July), and direct admission to the Ph.D. Programme will be made twice a year (in June/July and January/February).

Application for admission must be made in the prescribed form supplied with the Prospectus or downloaded from the Institute's website (http://www.tiss.edu/mphilphd.pdf). Applications must be complete in all respects, and attested copies of certificates must be enclosed. Incomplete applications will be rejected.

An Application Fee of Rs. 750/- must be remitted along with the application by Demand Draft drawn in favour of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, payable at Mumbai. The fee may also be paid in cash at the cash counter of the Institute. The Application Fee is not refundable.

Eligible applicants will be required to appear for an interview on a pre-notified date. Outstation SC and ST applicants called for the interview will be reimbursed ordinary Second Class return railway fare between the place of their residence and Mumbai by the shortest route on production of valid railway receipt/ticket. No TA/DA is, however, admissible for joining the programme.

The applicant is encouraged to contact a prospective guide at the Institute, either personally or through correspondence, for preparing the research proposal that is to be submitted along with the application form. However, scholars will be assigned guides after they are admitted to the M.Phil. programme or at the time of admission to the Ph.D. programme, as the case may be.

For M.Phil. / Ph.D. in Social Sciences or Social Work: The School of Rural Development is situated in the rural campus of the Institute in Tuljapur in Osmanabad District of Maharashtra (approximately 450 Km. from Mumbai). Scholars who would be registering for M.Phil. / Ph.D. in Social Sciences or Social Work and interested in working in the area of rural development are encouraged to register with the guides in the School of Rural Development. The scholars have to be in the Mumbai Campus for clearing the research methodology courses and move to the rural campus. The School provides residential and library facilities for the scholars. The scholars will have good access to computers and internet services in the rural campus.

The research proposal (about 1,000 words) to be submitted by the applicant may focus on: -