Overview

The current research focus of the Life Science department at National Institute of Technology, Rourkela includes cancer biology, epigenetics, apoptosis and autophagy in cancer, functional genomics, stem cell biology encompassing cancer and pluripotent stem cells and regulatory RNA biology for deciphering biomolecular regulation at systems level.

Key Features

Life Science is the scientific study associated with living organisms including microorganisms, plants, animals and human beings.

It encompass both basic and advanced fields of science such as zoology, botany, cell biology, genetics, biochemistry, microbiology, molecular biology, immunology, environmental sciences, biophysics, bioinformatics, systems biology, biomedical technologies etc.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Organic Chemistry: Structure and Reactivity

Cell and Molecular Biology

Animal Science

Plant Science

Life Science Laboratory

Basic Electrical Engineering Laboratory

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-07-23 00:00:00

Application deadline not specified.

Language

English

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Nagar, India

Disciplines

Biology Microbiology Biochemistry View 21 other Masters in Microbiology in India

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

Candidates having valid GATE card will get more preference.

To be eligible for admission to the M. Sc courses a student must have passed B.Sc. with the proposed specialization as relevant subject.
The M.Tech/M.Plan admission is through Centralised Counselling for M.Tech/M.Plan (CCMT).

For MBA the admission is through any of the National Entrance Tests like CAT, MAT, CMAT, XAT etc.
Msc To be eligible for admission to the 2 year M.Sc. programmes of NIT, Rourkela, a student must have passed B.Sc. degree from a recognized university in the appropriate discipline with 50% marks or 5.5/10 CGPA in aggregate covering all subjects (not in major subject(s) only). The above mentioned CGPA/percentage should be the aggregate CGPA/percentage based on all semesters/years. Conversion from CGPA to percentage or vice-versa given by individual Institute/University will not be considered.

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Tuition Fees

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15000 INR / year

≈ 15000 INR / year

Funding

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