National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM)
NBHM Master's and Doctoral Scholarship Schemes: Selection Procedures and Information

Important Announcement (made on Thursday 10th October 2024): The (combined) Written Test for the NBHM Doctoral and Master's Scholarship Schemes 2025 is (tentatively) scheduled to be held on Saturday 25th January 2025. (This date is arrived at by applying the following formula which we intend to use in the coming years as well: the unique Saturday in the date range 19--25 January.) The (online) application portal is scheduled to open sometime in November. The detailed advertisement will be published on this website around the same time that the portal is thrown open. The selection procedures and other details about the Scholarship Schemes for 2025 shall for the most part be the same as those for 2024, although there might be important changes. The nature and scope of these changes will be known only when the advertisement is published. The links below carry all the publicly available information about the 2024 schemes.

The selection process for the NBHM Master's and Doctoral Scholarships 2024 was completed by 15th March 2024.

• The online application portal closed on 15th December 2023.
• Detailed Advertisement: Since the publication of the advertisement, the monthly stipend amounts for the Doctoral Scholarship have been enhanced to ₹ 37,000 (for the first two years) and ₹ 42,000 (for subsequent years) with effect from 01 January 2023. (The corresponding amounts ₹ 31,000 and ₹ 35,000 mentioned in the advertisement stand revised.) HRA is payable in addition as per GoI norms, as mentioned in the advertisement.
• Official FAQ (last updated 16 Nov 2023)
• NBHM Policy Statement

As in the previous round of selection (2023), the same test served towards selection for both scholarships in the present round too. At the time of application, applicants had the option to be considered for only one of the scholarships (either one) or for both. Separate interview shortlists were drawn up for the two scholarships, based on the test scores. For further details, please refer to the detailed advertisement (linked above).

Final selection results are announced (Friday the 15th March):     Doctoral Scholarship Selected List     Master's Scholarship Selected List

• The test question paper and key are uploaded to the repository (linked below).
• D-cutoff: 54; M-cutoff: 38
• The interview shortlists:   Doctoral Interview Shortlist (DIS),   Master's Interview Shortlist (MIS)
• The interviews were held online and during the period 24th Feb to 02nd March.
• New features (introduced for the first time in 2024):
  • Candidates could know their own question-wise performance in addition to their M-score and D-score by logging into the Online Application Portal with the credentials they created at the time of application.
  • Candidates were allowed a short window of time (about 60 hours after the test results were declared) to file for re-evaulation.
• NBHM does not issue certificates to candidates validating the test scores or selection for the interview phase or anything else. Candidates who are finally selected for the grant of either scholarship shall receive an offer letter.

Important Dates:

For information about admission to the PhD / Integrated PhD programmes at various institutions (HRI, IISER Berhampur, IISER Mohali, IISER Pune, IISER Thiruvananthapuram, IMSc, KSoM, NISER) based upon the test scores, refer to the web pages of the respective institutions.

Question papers (from October 2005 onward) along with answer keys for all written tests (master's, doctoral, and combined) are available in this repository.