UGC NET December 2025 Exam Dates Released: Check Out the Full Subject-Wise Exam Schedule

NTA has released the subject-wise schedule for the UGC NET exam commencing in December 2025. It will start from December 31, 2025 and continue till January 7, 2026.

UGC-NET is conducted to determine the eligibility of candidates for the Award of Junior Research Fellowship, appointment as Assistant Professor and admission to PhD, appointment as Assistant Professor and admission to PhD only in Indian universities and colleges, according to the reports.

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The UGC NET December 2025 test will be administered in two daily shifts, as stated in the announcement made on December 17. The first shift will take place between 9 am to 12 pm and the second shift will occur between 3 pm to 6 pm. The test will be administered online for over 80 topics.

UGC NET December 2025 Exam Timetable, According to the Release: 

December 31, 2025

1) Law
2) Social Work
3) Telugu
4) Tourism Administration and Management
5) Spanish
6) Prakrit
7) Kashmiri
8) Konkani

January 2, 2026

1st Shift

1) Computer Science and Applications
2) Library and Information Science
3) Urdu
4) Forensic Science
5) Bengali
6) Arabic
7) Bodo
8) Human Rights and Duties

2nd Shift

1) Sociology
2) Psychology
3) Philosophy
4) Oriya
5) Yoga
6) Punjab
7) Social Medicine and Community Health
8) Women Studies

January 3, 2026

1st Shift

1) Commerce
2) Sanskrit
3) Santali
4) Criminology
5) Politics including International Relations/International Studies including Defence/Strategic Studies; West Asian Studies; South East Asian Studies; African Studies; South Asian Studies; Soviet Studies; American Studies
6) Disaster Management
7) Museology and Conservation

2nd Shift

1) Geography
2) Education
3) Fork Literature
4) Maithli
5) Indian Culture
6) Persian
7) Comparative Study of Religious

UGC-NET December 2025
Subject-wise Examination Schedule has been released.
Candidates are advised to check the schedule on the official NTA website.
https://t.co/x60amB0aWL
🗓 Exam Dates: 31 Dec 2025 – 07 Jan 2026#UGCNET #UGCNET2025 #NTA #ExamUpdate #NTAExam pic.twitter.com/FRpUmj3wSR — National Testing Agency (@NTA_Exams) December 18, 2025

January 5, 2026

1st Shift

1) English
2) Sanskrit traditional subjects (including) Jyotisha/Sidhanta Jyotish/ Navya Vyakarna/Vyakarna/Mimansa/Navya Navya/Sankhya Yoga/Tulanatmaka Darsan/Shuk;a Yajurveda/Madhav Vedant/ Dharmasasta/Sahitya/ Puranotihasa/Agama)
Anthropology
3) Adult Education/ Continuing Education/ Andragogy/Non Formal Education
4) French
5) Dogri
6) Russian
7) Chinese

2nd Shift

1) History
2) Visual Art (including Drawing and Painting/ Sculpture/Applied Art/History of Art)
3) Assamese
4) Tribal and Regional Language/Literature
5) Archaeology
6) Gujarati
7) Rajasthani

January 6, 2026

1st Shift

1) Political Science
2) Defence and Strategic Studies
3) Arab Culture and Islamic Studies
4) Hindu Studies
5) Nepali
6) Comparative Literature
7) Japanese
8) Sindhi

2nd Shift

1) Hindi
2) Tamil
3) Mass Communication and Journalism
4) Kannada
5) Malayalam
6) Manipuri
7) Indian Knowledge systems
8) German

January 7, 2026

1st Shift

1) Economics/Rural Economics/Co-operation/Demography/Development Planning/ Development Studies/ Econometrics/Applies Economics/Development Eco/Business Economics
2) Management (including Business Admn Mgt/Marketing Marketing Mgt/ Industrial Relations and Personnel Mgt/ Personnel Mgt/ Financial Mgt/Co-operative Management)
3) Public Administration
4) Population Studies
5) Linguistics
6) Buddhist, Jaina; Gandhian and Peace Studies
7) Ayurveda Biology
8) Pali

2nd Shift

1) Environmental Sciences
2) Home Sciences
3) Physical Education
4) Labour Welfare/Personnel Management/Industrial Relations/Labour and Social Welfare/Human Resource Management
5) Electronic Science
6) Music
7) Marathi
8) Performing Art- Dance/Drama/Theatre