More than 54,000 students on Saturday appeared at the National Eligibility Screening Test (NEST) for admission into the Jatni-based National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER).
The entrance was conducted between 10 am and 1 pm at 102 centres across the country. In Odisha, the tests were held at 14 centres in eight towns, including Bhubaneswar. Successful students will be enrolled into the five-year integrated MSc programme of the institute in four disciplines, Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics. There are 132 seats on offer. The results of the test would be out on June 17.
The NISER is an autonomous institution, which operates under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). The primary objective of the institute is to train and nurture human resources in the sciences for the knowledge economies of the future.