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NTA UGC NET Exam - Top Picked Courses by Aspirants

National Eligibility Test – An exam which tests the ability of an aspirant to become a lecturer or researcher.

The UGC NET Exam is conducted for 81 different subjects in all over India. The exam is conducted twice a year by NTA.

Approximately 9,50,000 candidates appear in UGC NET every year. The choice of candidates of the subject to appear in UGC NET differs according to their postgraduation.

But there are few UGC NET Subjects which are favorite of many aspirants.

Here we are sharing a complete list of mostly applied UGC NET Subject.

Scroll down to get the list.

UGC NET Top Picked Courses by Candidates

There are a few subjects for which aspirants mostly and commonly apply for NET Exam.

Below you can check the list of top-picked subjects for UGC NET 2019 Session –

S.No. Subject Applicants (Approx.)

1 Commerce 1,15,000

2 History 68500

3 Geography 46606

4 Economics 47500

5 Electronic Science 50700

6 Computer Science and Application 60000

7 Management 40500

8 Hindi 69500

9 English 77200

10 Environment Sciences 59000

11 Sociology 29300

12 Sanskrit 21400

13 Law 18200

14 Social Work 13200

15 Home Science 16100

According to this list, the topmost UGC NET Subject for which most of the candidates apply is Commerce which is followed by History, Hindi & English and by other subjects.

The least number of candidates were found in Prakrit and Kashmiri languages.

Official Says that the maximum number of candidates who register for UGC NET Exam were from Kolkata and the minimum number of candidates registered were from Tripura.

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