Ph.D. in Chemistry is a 3-year doctorate course in chemistry Subject. The candidates who are willing to take up this course must have the minimum eligibility by completing their master’s degree is the prerequisite for this course.

Full-time Ph. D. Programme shall be for a minimum duration of three years, including course work and a maximum of five years.

The admission shall be based on the criteria notified by the Saurashtra University and University Grants Commission (UGC) guidelines. 

The admission process for Ph.D. program is carried over by considering the merit score in CSIR-NET conducting by UGC-CSIR . Admission merit is prepared by candidate Merit score in CSIR-UGC-NET. All candidates must attain personal interview/viva in DRC-(Departmental Research Committee). DRC will Prepare Final merit for Ph.D. admission. On the successful completion of all process laid down by Saurashtra University Candidate will be registered for Ph.D. Program.

The Department of Chemistry has successfully completed DST-FIST program and UGC-DSA-SAP programmes. The research thrust areas include Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry, Pharma Analytical Chemistry, Thermodynamics, and Physicochemical properties of solutions. Material Science, Physical Chemistry, Catalysis, Inorganic Chemistry, Liquid Crystal, Nanoscience, etc.

Various eminent scientists, professors, industrialists, experts from different non-government organizations have visited the department for lectures and research advice.

Department has successfully completed various research projects funded by various government agencies such as UGC, DST, CSIR, BARC, BRNS, GUJCOST etc.

Further, some projects were also done with private industries like Du Pont, Agro Chemical (USA), Merck Inc., (USA), Spechem (Czech Republic), Spec Biospec (Netherland), R. J. W. Pharma (USA), Zydus, Cadilla Healthcare, Ranbaxy, Dabur Foundation, Nicholas-Piramal, Synergia Life Sciences, Sam Fine-o-chem, Shukla Ashar, Almelo, Astra Zeneca, Claries, Alembic Ltd., , Mackson Pharma etc.

There are collaborations with various national and foregin institutes, some of worth-mentioning being the New Jersey Medical School, Vienna Institue of Technology, Austria; Josai University, Japan; the Southern Research Institute, Alabama, USA; National Institute of Health, USA; National Cancer Institute, USA, Meiji Pharmaceutical University, Japan; DIPAS, New Delhi; Mysore University, Mysore; IIT, Chennai; CDRI, Lucknow  etc.

Presently, 25 scholars are pursuing their doctoral work in the department and more than 450 students have been awarded their Ph.DS till date. At present, department has Five regular and four self-financed faculties.

Many students pursued higher studies in following institute Abroad:

Premier Oilfied Group, Houston, USA.

Wacker/SILMIX-CA-Anaheim, California, USA.

Oxford University, UK.  

KatholiekeUniversiteit Leuven, Belgium

Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Academia Sinica,Taipei, Taiwan

Program Duration: 3 Years