UGC NET Subject List 2024: Check All 83 Subjects Name with Code

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 Subject List 2024

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. 

UGC NET 2024: Exam Pattern

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