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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

4.4.6.3. Pharmacy Discipline:
1. Assistant Professor

i. Essential:
1. A basic degree in pharmacy (B.Pharm.).
2. Registration as a pharmacist under the Pharmacy Act, 1948, as amended
from time to time, including any succeeding enactments.
3. First Class Master’s Degree in appropriate branch of specialization in
Pharmacy.
ii. Desirable:
1. Teaching, research industrial and / or professional experience in a reputed
organization; and
2. Papers presented at Conferences and / or in refereed journals.
2. Associate Professor:

i. Essential:
1. A basic degree in pharmacy (B. Pharm.).
2. Registration as a pharmacist under the Pharmacy Act, 1948, as amended
from time to time, including any succeeding enactments.
3. A Ph.D. Degree with First Class at Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in the
appropriate branch of specialization in Pharmacy, and experience of eight
years in teaching, research, industry and / or profession at the level of
Lecturer or equivalent grade; excluding period spent on obtaining the
research degree.
OR
ii. In the event the candidate is from industry and the profession, the following
shall constitute as essential:
1. First Class Master’s Degree in the appropriate branch of specialization in
Pharmacy;
2. Significant professional work which can be recognized as equivalent to
a Ph.D. Degree in appropriate branch of specialization in Pharmacy and
industrial / professional experience of eight years in a position equivalent
to the level of Lecturer,
Provided that the recognition for significant professional shall be valid
only if the same is recommended unanimously by a 3-Member Committee
of Experts appointed by the Vice-Chancellor of the University.
iii. Desirable:
1. Teaching, research industrial and / or professional experience in a reputed
organization;
2. Published work, such as research papers, patents filed / obtained, books
and / or technical reports; and
3. Experience of guiding the project work, dissertation of post graduate or
research students or supervising R&D projects in industry.
3. Professor:
i. Essential:
1. A basic degree in pharmacy (B. Pharm.).
2. Registration as a pharmacist under the Pharmacy Act, 1948, as amended
from time to time, including any succeeding enactments.

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