Indian Institute of Science

An undergraduate program was conceived, for students who had completed Class XII, during the Centenary Celebrations in 2009. The first batch of students was admitted in 2011. The program offers a four-year Bachelor of Science (Research) course in six disciplines: Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Materials, Mathematics, and Physics. The course aims at exposing the students to the inter-disciplinary nature in which scientific research is done in many upcoming fields, and comes at a time when the importance of science education at the undergraduate level is emphasized and several incentives are provided by the Government to promote the same.

The program reduces the 5-year course-work (of three years' bachelor's degree and 2 years' master's degree) to 4 years; it also makes the graduates eligible to apply to graduate schools which require 16 years of education as a prerequisite. In India, Bachelor of Science (Research) graduates are eligible to apply for national examinations such as CSIR-NET and GATE, for securing admission into PhD programs in universities including IISc.