All colleges offer part time PhD. But no one offers a online or hybrid mode, that's against the UGC rules. A part time PhD does not mean online, it means you pursue a PhD along with a job. So if you have a job, you get an NOC and do a partime phd. If not, you do a full time phd.

Stop treating the highest academic degree like an online course from satyam. If you want to pursue it, do it earnestly. Stop fooling around.

Show me the exact ruling, regulations or notification of UGC to back your "hybrid" claim.

No Phd program is allowed to provide online coursework ! Physical classes are only for coursework, it's examination and subsequently a final presentation to RAC for proposal acceptance. After this you don't even need to attend the university unless you're a RA, TA or personally want to use the resources of the university. You may leave once coursework is done, and stay in touch with your advisor.

Stop spreading misinformation. We are not living in COVID times. Every university that provides a PhD requires physical presence for coursework. It's upto the university whether that coursework is one week, one month, one semester or one year.

Maybe you're not aware, even "part-time" PhD students have to attend the mandatory coursework in PHYSICAL mode. They're no concept of any "online" coursework, even for them.

Also, there is no DISTANCE -MODE PhD. The moment you enroll in so called distance mode PhD, your degree is void and cancelled. There's already a clear cut judgement on "distance mode" PhDs.

Hell, even IGNOU, the most popular distance mode university conducts its PhD physically in their campus at Maidan Garhi.

Which 3rd grade private university at a remote local area are you talking about ? No decent university is providing "online" coursework, or "hybrid" or so called "distance" PhD.

I am currently at a Tier-1 NLU and we were required to physically attend coursework and examinations, this included part-timers. After which we didnt go to the university at all.

Most of my seniors or batchmates are in NLUs, JNU, DU, BHU, IITs, IIMs and none of them did their coursework online. Everyone attended the classes physically and then fkd off to their respective fieldwork or teaching duties.

If you're planning to do a PhD, I would suggest first read the UGC guidelines on PhD. Don't make a mockery out of yourself.

I think your high ideals will be very difficult to achieve, because the number of people asking about PhD on LI and the quality of many of those questions is so bad (like this one) that I am beginning to suspect that at least some people view it as another chance to put off the inevitable - finding a job within the legal field itself, or making the big decision that law really isn't for them.

Difficult to achieve? How? What I am asking is already offered by UGC, for many years now! May be your understanding is a bit obsolete as to how things are working these days. You should at max be questioning the standard set by UGC, as I am asking for options related to that only.

Please provide the exact document where this is available. Stop spreading misinformation. UGC does NOT allow hybrid, distance or online PhD programs. Only part-time is allowed, provided you submit an NOC. If you're getting a PhD degree in so called hybrid mode, your degree is liable to be cancelled.

I am commenting in this thread only to inform people that JGLS will represent that they don't need UGC permission to do any of these things because they are an IOE, but if you ask them whether the rest of the Indian institutions which are not JGLS will recognise these practices, then you won't be getting a straight answer from them. That's why they had to change their online LLM certificate unethically, which created opposition from even their own regular LLM students.