The UGC NET 2024 exam will cover 83 subjects. The candidates must choose a subject while filling out the UGC NET 2024 application form. The UGC-NET exam will be conducted on June 18, 2024.
The National Test Agency (NTA) has released the list of UGC-NET subjects 2024 on its official website. Candidates are expected to pay the registration fee by May 20, 2024. The UGC-NET application editing window closed on May 23, 2024, and the exam was postponed to June 18, 2024.
The University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) is conducted to assess the eligibility for the positions of Assistant Professor and Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) in Indian Universities and Colleges. The students can check out the list of 83 UGC-NET subjects that they can choose from while filling out the application form from the table given below.
UGC NET Subject List 2024
The UGC NET 2024 has 83 subjects, which candidates can choose while filling out the application form. The candidates are expected to select the subject based on their undergraduate degree so that there is some relevance while pursuing a postgraduate degree. The table below lists the 83 subjects along with their subject codes.
| UGC NET Subjects | UGC NET Code |
| Adult Education/Continuing Education/Andragogy/Non-Formal Education | 46 |
| Anthropology | 7 |
| Arab Culture and Islamic Studies | 49 |
| Arabic | 29 |
| Archaeology | 67 |
| Assamese | 36 |
| Bengali | 19 |
| Bodo | 94 |
| Buddhist, Jaina, Gandhian, and Peace Studies | 60 |
| Chinese | 32 |
| Commerce | 8 |
| Comparative Literature | 72 |
| Comparative Study of Religions | 62 |
| Computer Science and Applications | 87 |
| Criminology | 68 |
| Defence and Strategic Studies | 11 |
| Dogri | 33 |
| Economics/Rural Economics/Co-operation/Demography/Development Planning/Development Studies/Econometrics/Applied Economics/Development Economics/Business Economics | 1 |
| Education | 9 |
| Electronic Science | 88 |
| English | 30 |
| Environmental Sciences | 89 |
| Folk Literature | 71 |
| Forensic Science | 82 |
| French (French Version) | 39 |
| Geography | 80 |
| German | 44 |
| Gujarati | 37 |
| Hindi | 20 |
| Hindu Studies | 102 |
| History | 6 |
| Home Science | 12 |
| Human Rights and Duties | 92 |
| Indian Culture | 50 |
| Japanese | 45 |
| Kannada | 21 |
| Kashmiri | 84 |
| Konkani | 85 |
| Labour Welfare/Personnel Management/Industrial Relations/Labour and Social Welfare/Human Resource Management | 55 |
| Law | 58 |
| Library and Information Science | 59 |
| Linguistics | 31 |
| Maithili | 18 |
| Malayalam | 22 |
| Management (including Business Admin. Management./Marketing/Marketing Mgt./Industrial Relations and Personnel Mgt./ Personnel Mgt./Financial Mgt./Co-operative Management) | 17 |
| Manipuri | 35 |
| Marathi | 38 |
| Mass Communication and Journalism | 63 |
| Museology & Conservation | 66 |
| Music | 16 |
| Nepali | 34 |
| Oriya | 23 |
| Pali | 83 |
| Performing Art - Dance/Drama/Theatre | 65 |
| Persian | 42 |
| Philosophy | 3 |
| Physical Education | 47 |
| Political Science | 2 |
| Politics including International Relations/International Studies including Defence/Strategic Studies, West Asian Studies, South East Asian Studies, African Studies, South Asian Studies, Soviet Studies, American Studies | 90 |
| Population Studies | 15 |
| Prakrit | 91 |
| Psychology | 4 |
| Public Administration | 14 |
| Punjabi | 24 |
| Rajasthani | 43 |
| Russian | 41 |
| Sanskrit | 25 |
| Sanskrit traditional subjects (including Jyotisha/Sidhanta Jyotish/Navya Vyakarna/Vyakarna/Mimansa/Navya Nyaya/Sankhya Yoga/Tulanatmaka Darsan/Shukla Yajurveda/Madhav Vedant/Dharmasasta/Sahitya/Puranotihasa/Agama) | 73 |
| Santali | 95 |
| Sindhi | 101 |
| Social Medicine & Community Health | 82 |
| Social Work | 10 |
| Sociology | 5 |
| Spanish | 40 |
| Tamil | 26 |
| Telugu | 27 |
| Tourism Administration and Management. | 93 |
| Tribal and Regional Language/Literature | 70 |
| Urdu | 28 |
| Visual Art (including Drawing & Painting/Sculpture Graphics/Applied Art/History of Art) | 79 |
| Women Studies | 74 |
| Yoga | 100 |
Note: The table data is sourced from the official website of UGC NET 2024.
How to choose the UGC NET Subject 2024?
The candidates must choose the UGC-NET subject based on the subject they pursued during their Master’s degree. If the candidate is not able to find the exact subject in the list of UGC-NET subjects, then they can choose a related subject.
For example:
- A candidate can choose Women’s Studies if they have specialized in Humanities and Social Sciences in their Master’s degree.
- A candidate can choose Population Studies if they have specialized in subjects like Mathematics, Statistics, or Geography as their Master’s Degree.
Also Read: UGC-NET Exam Centres
UGC NET 2024: Exam Pattern
The candidates must check the UGC NET 2024 exam pattern before proceeding with the preparation of the exam. Both papers consist of objective-type multiple-choice questions (MCQs), which have 50 questions in Paper 1 and 100 questions in Paper 2.
Knowing the exam patterns will help the students with time management, and agility while answering the questions.
| Particulars | Paper 1 | Paper 2 |
| Mode | Online | |
| Duration | 3 hours | |
| Language of the papers | English and Hindi | |
| UGC NET 2024 Exam Date | June 10 to 21, 2024 | |
| Type of paper | Common for all candidates | Subject-wise questions (83 subjects) |
| Total Number of Questions | 50 | 100 |
| Total Marks | 100 | 200 |
| Marking scheme | 2 marks for a correct answer, 0 for the wrong answer | |
Also Read: UGC-NET Syllabus 2024
