The course is being offered by Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences at IIT Gandhinagar. Application submission for MSc Cognitive and Brain Sciences began on 1 December 2023.

Those who pass the written test in connection with admission into MSc Cognitive and Brain Sciences have to appear for interviews which will be held online from 15 to 16 March 2024.

Who can apply for MSc Cognitive and Brain Sciences?

Candidates who have passed any degree from a recognized educational institution can apply for this MSc Cognitive and Brain Sciences course.

The qualifying exam has to be passed with a minimum pass percentage of 55% or 5.5 CGPA if applicants are from General category. The same for those from SC, ST and PD category candidates is 50% or 5.0 CGPA.

1. The URL mentioned above must be typed into the browser and submitted to allow it to download.

2. Once the webpage is available, candidates can click <Register> button.

3. Clicking the above button will open another webpage with URL ‘https://admissions.iitgn.ac.in/pgadmission/register’

4. After the webpage with above URL opens, candidates can register and create an account with username and password.

5. They can come back to the webpage with URL ‘https://admissions.iitgn.ac.in/pgadmission/’ and login with the credentials obtained during the registration and start applying for MSc Cognitive and Brain Sciences.

Link to apply for MSc Cognitive and Brain Sciences is available here

Career opportunities

The key careers opportunities and research options available to students of MSc Cognitive and Brain Sciences include:

Ø Industry roles such as Educators, User Experience (UX), Linguistic analysts, Data analysts, Product developers/designers, AI engineers, Cognitive rehabilitation, Robotics, consumer behavior etc.

Ø Academic roles such as Teaching or Research in Human-Computer Interface, Neuroscience, Decision Making, etc. and International Ph.D. opportunities

Ø Establishing a start-up

Students

The students of MSc Cognitive and Brain Sciences come from a variety of disciplines ranging from psychology, physics, engineering, life sciences, and philosophy, among others, creating an atmosphere of curiosity and collaboration throughout the course.

Alumni from this MSc Cognitive and Brain Sciences are currently enrolled in top universities across Europe, North America and Asia that are renowned for high standards of academic excellence and research output.

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They are at institutions like the University of California, (Los Angeles, Berkeley, San Diego), Oxford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Max-Planck Germany, MIT, Yale, Rutgers and MCGill, Indiana, Northwestern among others.

The MSc Cognitive and Brain Sciences program at IIT Gandhinagar has produced a total of 120 alumni, including 103 MSc and 17 PhD graduates.

Around half of PhD graduates have taken up academic positions as Assistant Professors in various institutions across India, including IIT Delhi, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Roorkee, and Ahmedabad University, and FLAME University.

The program alumni are also working in private industry and non-profit organizations such as TCS R&D, Cognizant, Nielsen Neuro, Teach For India, and J-PAL South Asia.

It is also done abroad with competitive fellowships such as the Shastri Indo-Canadian Fellowship, DAAD Exchange Fellowship, Computation and Cognition Tübingen Summer Internship, Radboud Gateway Fellowship, Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship, etc.

Applications can be submitted and preparation for the further process can be taken up by applicants.

The application submission started on 17 December 2024. The exam will be conducted on 23 March 2024.

Students have to pass GUJCET with required qualifying marks to be eligible for next phase of admission.

The answer key release and challenge and final result declaration are expected to take place in March 2025. The exact schedule will likely be made known at the appropriate time.

The test

GUJCET is also known as Gujarat Common Entrance Test (GUJCET) and is conducted by Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB).

It is a state level exam conducted once every year and GUJCET 2025 is meant to be conducted for 2025.

The registration has opened and a notification is also released informing about the start of schedule for GUJCET 2025 registration.

Candidates keen on joining engineering or pharmacy courses at graduation in colleges across Gujarat can take up GUJCET 2025 registration. Details about GUJCET 2025 registration are available on the official website.

The subjects in plus-two must be maths, physics, and chemistry if applying for engineering through GUJCET 2025 registration.

Individuals focused on pharmacy must have biology, physics, and chemistry as subjects in plus-two.

Those willing to take up GUJCET 2025 registration must be passing their qualifying exam with 45% pass marks if they are from other categories.

Applicants from SC/ST/SEBC/EWS have to pass their qualifying exam with 40% pass marks.

How to take up GUJCET 2025 registration?

The process to apply for the test is online, candidates have to visit the official website with the help of the URL ‘https://gujcet.gseb.org/’ The procedure is mentioned below:

1. Candidates can type the earlier mentioned URL in the browsers of their computers and the webpage can be allowed to download.
2. Post-download, students have to click Click Here For New Candidate Registration
3. Clicking the above button will open webpage with URL ‘https://gujcet.gseb.org/’ showing the registration form.
4. Candidates must fill the form and create an account with username and password.
5. After creating an account, candidates can visit the website ‘https://gujcet.gseb.org/’
6. After the page is available, candidates can login with account credentials and start GUJCET 2025 registration.

Direct Link to take up GUJCET 2025 registration is here

Registration fee

The GUJCET 2025 registration fee has to be paid and the form can be submitted. Post submission, applicants have to wait for the message indicating successful submission. Once the message is obtained, candidates can download it and take a printout of it.

The fee is Rs 350 can be paid online through SBIePay system using Credit Card, Debit Card or Net Banking.

Fee can also be paid using ONLINE SBIePay “SBI Branch Payment” Option in any SBI Branch of the Country.

To pay inSBI Branch Log in to gujcet.gseb.org and in payment option SBIePay, Select SBI Branch payment option and take print out of payment slip.

Option for filling form will be shown only after successful payment. In case of failed payment status, application cannot be filled.

1. The URL mentioned above must be typed into the browser and submitted to allow the website to download.
2. Once the website is ready, candidates have to click the link for hall ticket.
3. Clicking the link for hall ticket will open another webpage.
4. When another webpage opens, they can enter the details like their application number and submit them to obtain admit card.
5. The hall ticket will be available likely on another webpage, once available candidates can download and take a printout.

Post application submission

Students who have completed GUJCET 2025 registration can wait for the hall ticket download which will be informed at the appropriate time on the official website.

The test will have questions related to 12th-standard maths/biology, physics, and chemistry lessons.

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GUJCET exam has to be passed with required cutoff marks or qualifying scores to become eligible to take part in the next process of admission which involves counseling or interview and document verification.