Ph.D. (Spatial Informatics) From IIIT Hyderabad, Hyderabad

Aspirants seeking admission to 3 years Full-time Ph.D Program should meet the following criteria as specified by the institute.

Academic Requirement:

• The candidate should have completed or completing a Master’s program (Master of Science/M.E/M.Tech/MSc/MCA/MA).
• While a student with a Masters Degree in Geospatial/Spatial sciences or Geoinformatics is eligible to the PhD program, students with Master’s in other related areas like Geogrpahy, Forestry, Urban Planning, Computer science, etc are also eligible if they have done or have sufficient experience in working or handling Geospatial data and a good understanding of its concepts. Applicants will have to write and clear the common General Aptitude paper.  The Spatial science subjective paper may be tested/evaluated during or just before the interviews.

* Note Students with background in Computer Sceince can also apply for the regular PhD program in CSE offered here at IIIT-H and do research in Spatial Informatics area. It be noted that such students will be governed by the PhD in CSE program guidelines.

Entrance Exam:

Candidates must qualify one of the following entrance test - IIITH PGEE

Note: Financial assistance is provided as stipend to all full time research (PhD/Master of Science by Research) students during the first semester and it will be continued based on satisfactory academic and research performance for the duration of the programme. Normally, full financial assistance requires the student to put in 20 hours of work per week.

A regular student has to pay for hostel charges (approx INR 3000/- per month) and mess charges (approx INR 4500/- per month). These have to be paid semester-wise, before start of the semester.