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The institute will have advanced instrumental as well as experimental facilities for plant scientists to pursue excellence in all branches of plant science and is expected to contribute to the talent pool of researchers and specialized technicians in plant-based technologies. Technologies to be focused in the programme include those for plant medicines, nutraceuticals, sustainable agriculture, Phytoremediation and all kinds of bio- fuels. In addition to advanced research laboratories for the above-mentioned technologies, the institute will have a medicinal garden, field experimental station, regional herbarium and museum of plant resources of the Western Ghats.

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• International Seminar On “NEW HORIZONS ON INDIAN AGROSYSTEMS”

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• Bangalore Central Campus
• Open From : 21-Mar-2024
• Open Until : 04-Jun-2024

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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Botany is an advanced research-based program exploring the plant kingdom's diverse and intricate aspects. This academic pursuit delves into the study of plants, structure, function, evolution, classification, and ecological relationships, aiming to contribute original knowledge to the field. The program typically spans several years and involves intensive research, coursework, and collaboration with experienced faculty members. Students pursuing a PhD in Botany engage in various research topics, from plant physiology, plant ecology, plant taxonomy, plant genetics, molecular biology, and ethnobotany. The program often emphasizes critical thinking, problem-solving, and experimental design, fostering a deep understanding of 

scientific methodologies. Aspiring botanists may specialize in medicinal botany, phycology, bryology, mycology, and plant genetics, tailoring their research to address current environmental challenges and contribute to species preservation. Successful completion of a PhD in Botany requires the submission and defense of a doctoral thesis, showcasing the student's original research findings and their contribution to the scientific community. Graduates of this program are well-equipped for careers in academia, research institutions, conservation organizations, and government agencies, where they can apply their expertise to address pressing issues in plant biology and contribute to advancing botanical knowledge.

Why choose this course?

Opportunity to deeply explore & contribute to  understanding of  plant kingdom.

Provides a platform for groundbreaking research.

Fostering expertise in areas like plant physiology and ecology

Opens doors to impactful academic and research  careers.

Involves in the study of medicinal plants and formulation drugs.

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• Students delve into a comprehensive understanding of the plant kingdom through rigorous coursework and advanced research
• Students explore the intricate molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying physiological processes in various species
• Individuals engage in advanced fieldwork, laboratory experiments, and data analysis, honing their skills in scientific inquiry and research methodologies.
• They often specialize in specific branches of botany, such as plant anatomy, phycology, mycology, bryology, horticulture, etc, tailoring their studies to align with their research interests and career goals
• Students learn to design and execute independent research projects, contributing original insights to the scientific community.
• Students will have the chance to support teachers in hands-on academic teaching experiences.
• Coursework and literature review
• Identify a specific research topic
• Exploration of  scientific literature to understand the current state of knowledge in their chosen field.

• Formulate and refine research questions, hypotheses, and experimental approaches
• Preparing work plans and designing protocols for the selected research project
• Establishing a solid theoretical framework and research plan that will guide the subsequent years of the doctoral program.
• Building a solid academic and research foundation in the research progress. 
• Conduct research work according to the timeline
• Prepare progress reports.
• Attend seminars, workshops, and conferences to enhance their understanding of current developments in their research area and related fields.
• Contribute to research publications based on the PhD research
• Additionally, students are required to finish RAC meetings.
• Publication of research in peer-reviewed journals
• Contributing to the broader scientific community
• Finalizing the research and compiling all obtained data
• Participate in pre-synopsis, thesis submission, and thesis defense proceedings.
• Present scholars work at conferences, showcasing findings and gaining valuable feedback from experts in the field
• Presenting and defending scholars work before a committee of faculty members, demonstrating a deep understanding of the subject matter and the significance of their contributions to the field.

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Below is a list of best universities in India ranked based on their research performance in Botany. A graph of 3.57M citations received by 267K academic papers made by 419 universities in India was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.

We don't distinguish between undergraduate and graduate programs nor do we adjust for current majors offered. You can find information about granted degrees on a university page but always double-check with the university website.

1. Banaras Hindu University

2. Indian Agricultural Research Institute

3. University of Delhi

4. Aligarh Muslim University

5. Punjab Agricultural University

6. Annamalai University

7. Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

8. Tamil Nadu Agricultural University

9. All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi

10. Indian Institute of Science

11. University of Calcutta

12. Panjab University

13. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

14. Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University

15. Jawaharlal Nehru University

16. University of Madras

17. VIT University

18. Guru Nanak Dev University

19. Bharathiar University

20. University of Hyderabad

21. Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research

22. Jamia Hamdard University

23. Jadavpur University

24. Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

25. Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology

26. Indian Institute of Technology Madras

27. University of Mysore

28. Savitribai Phule Pune University

29. Manipal Academy of Higher Education

30. Amity University

31. Institute of Chemical Technology

32. University of Allahabad

33. Bharathidasan University

34. University of Lucknow

35. Anna University

36. Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

37. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

38. Pondicherry University

39. University of Kashmir

40. Andhra University

41. Osmania University

42. Punjabi University Patiala

43. University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

44. University of Burdwan

45. University of Kerala

46. Indian Veterinary Research Institute

47. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

48. University of Rajasthan

49. Shivaji University

50. Sri Venkateswara University

51. Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University

52. University of Calicut

53. Karnatak University

54. National Islamic University

55. Dr. Hari Singh Gour University

56. Dr. Y.S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry

57. Kumaun University

58. Lovely Professional University

59. Forest Research Institute

60. university of mumbai.

61. Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

62. North Eastern Hill University

63. Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University

64. Bidhan Chandra Agricultural University

65. SRM Institute of Science and Technology

66. Madurai Kamaraj University

67. Indian Statistical Institute

68. University of Kalyani

69. Visva-Bharati University

70. CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University

71. Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir

72. Devi Ahilya University / Indore University

73. Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology

74. Alagappa University

75. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

76. Kerala Agricultural University

77. National Dairy Research Institute

78. Maharishi Dayanand University

79. Sardar Patel University

80. Tezpur University

81. Kurukshetra University

82. Amrita University

83. University of Jammu

84. National Institute of Technology, Rourkela

85. Vidyasagar University

86. Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences

87. Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology

88. Mahatma Gandhi University

89. Periyar University

90. Bangalore University

91. Assam University

92. Siksha O Anusandhan University

93. Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu

94. University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad

95. Birla Institute of Technology and Science

96. Birla Institute of Technology

97. Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University

98. Saveetha University

99. SASTRA University

100. Mangalore University

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Top Colleges for MSc or Integrated PhD in Biotechnology or Life Sciences in India

Following are the top colleges for pursuing M.Sc. or Integrated PhD Degree in Biotechnology or Life Sciences in India. This list contains name of institutes based on serial number but not the rank.

MSc or Integrated PhD in Biotechnology

Biotechnology is a branch of science that applies Biology for the purpose of research and development. Biotechnology involves a wide range of subjects such as Engineering, Genetics, Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Chemistry. Along with Biotechnology Zoology, Life Sciences, Biological Sciences, Botany and Chemistry are the core subjects for completing M. Sc.. Specific courses such as Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Microbiology, Neuroscience etc. have also gained attention in past years.

M.Sc. is a 2-year course divided into 4 semesters. The minimum eligibility criteria needed to be fulfilled for pursuing the course is graduation in any science discipline, mainly, Biology, Math, and Chemistry. Most of the college for biotechnology are scholarship based funded or assisted by DBT.

Admission in MSc in Biotechnology

Admission to the course is based on the candidate’s performance in a relevant entrance exams such as JAM, GATE, JNU-CEEB, or TIFR. Biotechnology is a research-oriented subject which combines the disciplines of Technology and Biology. M.Sc. Biotechnology syllabus is designed in such a way that it enhances candidate’s knowledge about Biotechnology and its related disciplines such as Genetics, Animal Biotechnology, Plant Biotechnology, or Food Technology. Syllabus and eligibility criteria differs slightly from institute to institute.

Admission in Integrated PhD in Biotechnology

Integrated PhD courses are offered by many universities in India. An integrated PhD course curriculum comprises of content jointly designed by two or more higher education disciplines and regulated by a specific set of guidelines. Students who opt for integrated PhD have advantage that they don't have to take entrance exam for PhD second time and it takes less time as compared to individual courses. As well as fellowship is awarded during MS degree also.

Colleges/Institutions Providing Biotechnology or other Biological Sciences Courses 

Following are the top colleges for pursuing M.Sc. in any biological sciences discipline. This list contains name of institutes based on serial number but not the rank. Entrance Exam details can be checked by respective given link. Entrance exam form start filling from September on wards for most of the subjects.

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Some Vanderbilt students will have $100,000 in total expenses for the 2024-25 school year. The school doesn’t really want to talk about it.

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Reporting from Vanderbilt University in Nashville

It was only a matter of time before a college would have the nerve to quote its cost of attendance at nearly $100,000 a year. This spring, we’re catching our first glimpse of it.

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One letter to a newly admitted Vanderbilt University engineering student showed an all-in price — room, board, personal expenses, a high-octane laptop — of $98,426. A student making three trips home to Los Angeles or London from the Nashville campus during the year could hit six figures.

This eye-popping sum is an anomaly. Only a tiny fraction of college-going students will pay anything close to this anytime soon, and about 35 percent of Vanderbilt students — those who get neither need-based nor merit aid — pay the full list price.

But a few dozen other colleges and universities that reject the vast majority of applicants will probably arrive at this threshold within a few years. Their willingness to cross it raises two questions for anyone shopping for college: How did this happen, and can it possibly be worth it?

Who Pays What

According to the College Board, the average 2023-24 list price for tuition, fees, housing and food was $56,190 at private, nonprofit four-year schools. At four-year public colleges, in-state students saw an average $24,030 sticker price.

That’s not what many people pay, though, not even close. As of the 2019-20 school year, according to federal data that the College Board used in a 2023 report , 39 percent of in-state students attending two-year colleges full time received enough grant aid to cover all of their tuition and fees (though not their living expenses, which can make getting through school enormously difficult). At four-year public schools, 31 percent paid nothing for tuition and fees while 18 percent of students at private colleges and universities qualified for the same deal.

Those private colleges continue to provide hefty discounts for people of all sorts of incomes. A National Association of College and University Business Officers study showed private nonprofit colleges and universities lowering their tuition prices by 56 percent from the rack rate during the 2022-23 school year.

Vanderbilt provides discounts, too, and its financial aid is extraordinarily generous. This year, it announced that families with income of $150,000 or less would pay no tuition in most instances .

Still, over 2,000 students there who get no need-based or merit aid will soon pay $100,000 or more. Why does Vanderbilt need all of that money?

Where the Money Goes

At a few small liberal arts colleges with enormous endowments, even $100,000 would not cover the average cost of educating a student, according to the schools. Williams College says it spends roughly $50,000 more per student than its list price, for instance.

In other words, everyone is getting a subsidy. Perhaps its list price should be over $100,000, too, so that its endowment is not offering unneeded help to wealthy families. Or, perhaps, a price that high would scare away low-income applicants who do not realize that they might get a free ride there.

According to Vanderbilt, its spending per undergraduate is $119,000. “The gap between the price and cost of attendance is funded by our endowment and the generous philanthropy of donors and alumni,” Brett Sweet, vice chancellor for finance, said in an emailed statement.

No one at the school would meet with me to break this figure down or get on the phone to talk about it. But Vanderbilt’s financial statements offer clues to how it spends money. In the 2023 fiscal year, 52 percent of its operating expenses went to faculty, staff and student salaries and wages, plus fringe benefits.

Robert B. Archibald and David H. Feldman, two academics who wrote “ Why Does College Cost So Much? ,” explained in their book why labor costs were so tricky at these institutions.

“The critical factors are that higher education is a personal service, that it has not experienced much labor-saving productivity growth, and that the wages of the highly educated workers so important at colleges and universities have soared,” they said. “These are economywide factors. They have little to do with any pathology in higher education.”

Critics of the industry still believe that a kind of administrative bloat has set in, driving up tuition with outsize salaries. But what is bloat, really?

Administrators oversee compliance, like the laws that have made it possible for disabled people to get to and through college and keep schools from discriminating against women. If we don’t like regulation, we can vote for different legislators.

Similarly, families in a free market can make alternative choices if they want fewer mental health practitioners and their bosses, computer network administrators, academic advisers or career counselors. And yet the first (prescreened) question that Vanderbilt’s chancellor, Daniel Diermeier, answered on family weekend this past fall was about whether Vanderbilt should invest even more in career advising in the wake of the school’s five-spot decline in the annual U.S. News rankings .

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If many families are not exactly lining up for a cut-rate residential undergraduate education, they’re still asking plenty of good questions about value. So is a $400,000 college education ever worth it?

It depends, and you knew that answer was coming, right?

Most college shoppers wonder about income outcomes, and it’s possible to search by undergraduate major on the federal government’s College Scorecard website . This program-level data exists for alumni who are four years out from graduation, though only for those who received any federal financial aid.

Vanderbilt’s biomedical/medical engineering majors have median earnings of $94,340 four years out. English language and literature majors are earning $53,767.

Those are fine results, but are they exclusive to Vanderbilt? “You could get an engineering degree at a state flagship university that’s just as valuable as something you’d get at Vanderbilt,” said Julian Treves , a financial adviser and college specialist whose newsletter tipped me off to the goings-on there.

I spent a few days trying to get Vanderbilt’s vice provost for university enrollment affairs, Douglas L. Christiansen , to talk to me and answer these questions squarely and more expansively, but I did not succeed. A university spokeswoman sent me some generalities in his name. “We are committed to excellence at all levels, from the quality of our faculty, programming, facilities and research labs to the services we provide to support the academic, emotional and social well-being of our students,” went the statement.

In anticipation of the absence of a substantive reply, I attended a group information session for 125 or so prospective students and asked there, too. The senior admissions officer who took the question refused to answer. I’d never seen that before, and I’ve been to these sessions at dozens of schools over the years.

But really, why should an actor in a competitive marketplace answer that question if the person doesn’t absolutely have to? Without publicly available, industrywide quantitative data on quality — happiness scores, customer satisfaction, measures of learning, return on friendship, the strength of career networks — the list price alone serves as a signal of excellence, to some shoppers at least.

And thousands of applicants respond to the signal each year by volunteering to pay the list price, even as the school rejects the vast majority of applicants. Or maybe they volunteer precisely because Vanderbilt and schools like it reject the vast majority of applicants.

So a $100,000 list price is not our highest-priority outrage. The spectacle of wealthy people freely purchasing luxury services is nothing new, even if it is a totally worthy object of scrutiny (and an understudied phenomenon by academics themselves, ahem).

What is a problem, then? Brent Joseph Evans , an associate professor of public policy and higher education at Vanderbilt’s college of education and human development, started his career as an admissions officer at the University of Virginia. There, he sold the institution to boarding school students in New England and teenagers in the Appalachian foothills.

The former group might pay $100,000 per year, though many of them won’t get into the Vanderbilts of the world in the first place. They will surely find their way somewhere.

But that latter group? Professor Evans is worried about their access to any school at all.

“We should care about whether they get into a state university system at a low cost and find a well-paying career that can keep them in the middle class,” he said. “I do think that sometimes any tension over what elite colleges are doing moves us away from what we should be caring about as a society.”

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An earlier version of this article misstated the surname of Vanderbilt’s vice provost for university enrollment affairs. He is Douglas L. Christiansen, not Christensen.

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