Marks Requirement

You are eligible for UGC NET in HRM if you have passed a 2-year Master’s degree program with a minimum of 55% marks (requirement is lowered at 50% if you belong to SC or ST or OBC or PwD or Third Gender category).

Which subject can you choose

You can write UGC NET in that subject only in which you have done your post-graduation (master degree).

For example, if you have done M.Com, you are not eligible to write UGC NET in HRM. You can appear for UGC NET in Commerce (Code 08) only.

Since you are planning to write UGC NET in HRM and Labour Welfare (Code 55), therefore you should have masters degree in HRM, Industrial Relations, labour Laws, Personnel Management etc. If you have MBA degree, you are eligible for Code 55 HRM, even if you have specialization in Operations Management or Financial Management. Just having MBA degree makes you eligible.

Part Time or Full Time

It does not matter, if you have MBA degree through part time or correspondence. You are eligible for UGC NET, irrespective of mode of degree.

Diploma and Certificate Courses

If you have post-graduate Diploma (and not post-graduate degree), then you are eligible only if your Diploma has been granted status equivalent to Post-Graduate Degree. The equivalence status is granted by the Association of Indian Universities (AIU website). To check, if your Diploma is equivalent, check it on website of AIU ( Go to Home Page >> Evaluation, click this Link ). If your diploma is there in this list, then you are eligible, otherwise not. You may also reach out principal or director of your college and ask, if your diploma has equivalence certificate of AIU (they always know it).

For instance, IIM provides 2-year diploma and not 2-year degree. Hence they should be not eligible for UGC NET. But PG Diploma of IIMs has been granted equivalence certificate by the AIU and this makes them eligible for UGC NET in HRM.

Foreign University Degrees

Similarly, if you have done MBA from a foreign institute or university, you are not eligible for UGC NET exam, unless your program has been given equivalence certificate by the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) (www.aiu.ac.in).

Pursuing PG Degree or having failed in few subjects

However if you are still pursuing a two-year Master’s degree program, you are eligible to write UGC NET exam. Till 2024, you were eligible to write only when in second year of study. But after June 2024, there has been relaxation in this.

Now you can write UGC NET exam anytime (even in first year) while pursuing your PG Degree. But you must complete your masters within 2 years from the date of declaration of result of UGC NET (for Category 1 and Category 2).

If you qualify for the “Admission to Ph.D. only”(Category 3), then you do not get 2 years. You must complete your masters within 1 year from the date of declaration of result of UGC NET.