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The School of Physical, Chemical and Applied Sciences consists of the following three departments.

1. Department of Physics
2. Department of Chemistry
3. Department of Earth Sciences.
   

The Department of Physics offers 2-year M.Sc, 5-year integrated M.Sc, M.Phil and Ph.D programs. The Department has distinguished faculty members with excellent laboratory and computational facilities. The faculty members of the Department have received major research project grants for more than Rs. 4 crores from various funding agencies like DST, AICTE, UGC, DRDO, DAE, INSA, CSIR, INCPAR and also received many national and international awards. The faculty members have published more than 400 research papers in internationally reputed journals.

A significant number of students of this Department have qualified in the CSIR-UGC NET / GATE examinations and pursue research or got placements in leading scientific and software companies / institutions.

FACILITIES IN PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY

• The University central library has over 1.12 lakhs of books, over 7,100 journals and excellent on-line journal referring facilities. Internet access is provided by 2 MBPS radio link. 
• The University is linked with UGC-INFONET through VSAT and provides on-line access to about 5000 e-journals.
  
• The Central Instrumentation Facility has electronics shop, mechanical shop and glass blowing shop to undertake any type of repair, and maintenance of scientific instruments, in addition to the latest sophisticated analytical instruments in spectroscopy, microscopy, magnetism and virtual instrumentation systems.
  
• Excellent hostel facilities are available for both men and women. 
• A health center functions for the benefit of students and staff. 
• An ambulance is also available. 
• Two canteens, a post office and Indian bank operates within the campus.
  

UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF EDUCATION

• The Pondicherry University follows CBCS (choice-based credit system). Under this system, the students have a good deal of freedom in designing their own curriculum to suit their needs. Each program will have a set of courses that a student must complete to get the degree. These are called hardcore courses. The students can take any soft-core course offered in any department as long as they fulfill the certain prerequisites. The students can also take as many courses as they can handle subject to a maximum of 30 credits in any semester.
  

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE to STUDENTS

• All candidates who pass the entrance examination of the Pondicherry University and admitted to Ph.D (Physics) are eligible to receive a scholarship of Rs. 5,000/- per month and contingency grant of Rs. 10,000/- per annum. 
• All candidates who pass the entrance examination of the Pondicherry University and admitted to M.Phil (Physics) are eligible to receive a scholarship of Rs. 3,000/- per month.
  
• The UGC-CSIR NET qualified candidates are eligible to receive fellowships as per the UGC-CSIR rules.
  

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

• Nonlinear Optics and Dynamics
• Quantum Electronics / Lasers & Photonics
• Condensed Matter Physics
• Geophysics & Geomagnetism
• Computational Physics & Biophysics
• Physics of Nanomaterials
  

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

• M.Sc (Physics) - 2 years

• M.Phil (Physics) and Ph.D (Physics) 

SELECTION PROCEDURE

• There will be a separate admission test for M.Sc, M.Phil and Ph.D. 
• All candidates seeking admission to M.Sc (Physics), M.Phil (Physics) and Ph.D (Physics) in Pondicherry University campus should appear and qualify in the entrance examination. 
• The GATE and UGC-CSIR qualified candidates need not write the University entrance examination for M.Phil / Ph.D. However, they should apply for admission with their GATE / CSIR certificate.