UGC-NET June 2026 Schedule Released: Exams to run June 22–30 in CBT mode

The schedule, released through a public notice, covers over 80 subjects spread across five examination days in two daily shifts.

UGC-NET June 2026 Schedule Out: NTA to conduct exam from June 22 to 30 in CBT mode

The exam will be held in two shifts each day — Shift one from 9 am to 12 noon, and Shift two from 3 pm to 6 pm.(Image via NTA/Improved with AI)

By: Education Desk

4 min readNew DelhiJun 8, 2026 10:43 AM IST First published on: Jun 6, 2026 at 03:21 PM IST

The National Testing Agency released the subject-wise schedule for the UGC-NET June 2026 examination, announcing that the test will be conducted in Computer-Based Test mode from June 22 to June 30, 2026. The schedule, released through a public notice, covers over 80 subjects spread across five examination days in two daily shifts. The exam will be held in two shifts each day — Shift one from 9 am to 12 noon, and Shift two from 3 pm to 6 pm.

NTA has said that the notification regarding exam city centre intimation will be displayed on its official website eight to ten days before the examination — meaning candidates appearing on June 22 can expect city allotment details by around June 12-14.

Candidates are advised to download their admit cards as soon as they are released and verify all details, including exam centre city, shift timings and subject code, before their scheduled examination date.

UGC NET 2026: Schedule

The examination opens on June 22 with subjects including Visual Art, Museology and Conservation, Geography, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Labour Welfare and Personnel Management in Shift I, and Computer Science and Applications, Persian, Russian, Bengali, Home Science, Music and Population Studies in Shift II.

Date	Shift I Subject Code	Shift I Subject Name (09:00 AM to 12:00 PM)	Shift II Subject Code	Shift II Subject Name (03:00 PM to 06:00 PM)
22 June 2026	79	Visual Art (including Drawing & Painting/Sculpture Graphics/Applied Art/History of Art)	87	Computer Science and Applications
	66	Museology & Conservation	42	Persian
	24	Punjabi	41	Russian
	26	Tamil	19	Bengali
	80	Geography	12	Home Science
	38	Marathi	16	Music
	55	Labour Welfare/Personnel Management/Industrial Relations/Labour and Social Welfare/Human Resource Management	15	Population Studies
	95	Santali
23 June 2026	14	Public Administration	63	Mass Communication and Journalism
	9	Education	88	Electronic Science
	10	Social Work	74	Women Studies
	22	Malayalam	58	Law
	28	Urdu	27	Telugu
	68	Criminology	82	Forensic Science
	65	Performing Art-Dance/Drama/Theatre	34	Nepali
	70	Tribal and Regional Language/Literature	59	Library and Information Science
	71	Folk Literature	3	Philosophy
24 June 2026	2	Political Science	8	Commerce
	62	Comparative Study of Religions	11	Defence and Strategic Studies
	45	Japanese	50	Indian Culture
	33	Dogri	60	Buddhist; Jaina; Gandhian and Peace Studies
			43	Rajasthani
			31	Linguistics
25 June 2026	30	English	6	History
	32	Chinese	83	Pali
	85	Konkani	91	Prakrit
	40	Spanish	72	Comparative Literature
	84	Kashmiri
29 June 2026	20	Hindi	4	Psychology
	49	Arab Culture and Islamic Studies	18	Maithili
	103	Indian Knowledge Systems	29	Arabic
	35	Manipuri	17	Management (including Business Admn. Mgt./Marketing/Marketing Mgt./Industrial Relations and Personnel Mgt./ Personnel Mgt./Financial Mgt./Co-operative Management)
	21	Kannada	47	Physical Education
	44	German	73	Sanskrit traditional subjects (including Jyotisha/Sidhanta Jyotish/ Navya Vyakarna/ Vyakarna/ Mimansa/ Navya Nyaya/ Sankhya Yoga/ Tulanatmaka Darsan/ Shukla Yajurveda/ Madhav Vedant/ Dharmasasta/ Sahitya/ Puranotihasa /Agama).
	101	Sindhi	105	Ayurveda Biology
	39	French (French Version)	104	Disaster Management
30 June 2026	1	Economics/Rural Economics/Co-operation/ Demography/Development Planning/Development Studies/Econometrics/ Applied Economics/Development Eco./Business Economics	36	Assamese
	89	Environmental Sciences	5	Sociology
	102	Hindu Studies	100	Yoga
	7	Anthropology	93	Tourism Administration and Management.
	94	Bodo	46	Adult Education/Continuing Education/ Andragogy/ Non Formal Education.
	37	Gujarati	67	Archaeology
	25	Sanskrit	23	Oriya
	90	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.	81	Social Medicine & Community Health
	92	Human Rights and Duties	107	Statistics
			106	Forestry

The final day, June 30, covers Economics and its allied disciplines, Environmental Sciences, Hindu Studies, Anthropology, Bodo, Gujarati, Sanskrit, Politics Including International Relations, and Human Rights and Duties in Shift I, and Assamese, Sociology, Yoga, Tourism Administration and Management, Adult Education, Archaeology, Oriya, Social Medicine and Community Health, Statistics and Forestry in Shift II.

Candidates have been advised to regularly check the official UGC-NET portal at ugcnet.nta.nic.in/ for updates, instructions and notices. For queries, NTA can be reached at 011-40759000 or via email at ugcnet@nta.ac.in.