NIT Rourkela offers Ph.D. in various technical specializations. In NIT Rourkela all different departments and centers offer Ph. D. program.
Biotechnology and Medical
Engineering: - Medical Electronics & Instrumentation, Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering, Cell & Molecular Engineering, Bioprocess Engineering, Agriculture & Environmental Biotechnology, Biomechanics & Bio transport.
Civil Engineering: - Geotechnical, Water Resources, Environmental, Transportation & Structural Engineering.
Chemical Engineering: - Energy, Environment, Nano-Technology, Reaction Engineering & Catalysis, Mass Transfer, Heat Transfer, Control System, Modeling & Simulation, Allied Chemical Engineering.
Ceramic Engineering: - Structural Ceramic, Industrial Ceramic, Electro-Ceramics, Nano-Bio Ceramics.
Computer Science & Engineering: - All specializations of Computer Science &Engineering
Chemistry: - Inorganic, Organic, Physical, Materials, Bioinorganic, Organometallic, Biophysical Chemistry, Nano Science, Environmental, Computational, Theoretical Chemistry, Solid State, Biochemistry
Electronics & Communication Engineering: - VLSI, Signal & Image Processing, Communication & Networks, Instrumentation, Microwaves & Antenna
Electrical Engineering: - Power System, Power Electronics, Signal Processing, Control System,
Image Processing, Communication, Nano Electronic Devices, Renewable Energy Systems, Robotics, Microwave & Antenna
Earth and Atmospheric Science: - Geology, Geophysics, Atmospheric & Ocean Sciences
Food Process Engineering: - Food & Bio-Process Engineering
Humanities & Social Sciences: - Economics, English, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Sanskrit, Developmental Studies
Industrial Design: - Product Design, Ergonomics Design, etc.
Life Science: - All areas of Biological Science
Mathematics: - Mathematical Statistics, Statistics, Numerical Analysis, Algebra, Number Theory, Fluid Dynamics, ODE, PDE, Analysis, Group Theory, Fuzzy Set Theory, Functional Analysis, Convex Analysis.
Mechanical Engineering: - Mechanical, Machine Design, Production/ Thermal, Cryogenic, Mechatronics, Robotics, Mechanical Vibrations, Automobile, Manufacturing, Industrial Management, Aerospace, Aeronautical Engineering, Composites, Tribology, Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer
Metallurgical & Materials Engineering: - Physical Metallurgy, Mechanical Metallurgy, Composite Materials, Advanced Materials, Process Metallurgy, Computational Metallurgy
Mining Engineering: - All specialization of Mining Engineering
Planning and Architecture: - Urban & Regional Planning, Housing
Physics and Astronomy: - Experimental & Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Theoretical High Energy Physics, Quantum Optics, Theoretical BioPhysics & Non-Linear Dynamics
School of Management: - School of Management