JMI cuts assistant professor, guest faculty vacancies, updates eligibility criteria

Anu Parthiban | July 10, 2025 | 03:00 PM IST | 3 mins read

JMI Recruitment 2025: Jamia Millia Islamia will accept applications for the contractual assistant professor and guest faculty positions till July 14.

JMI opens applications for contractual assistant professor and guest teachers vacancies. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) has reduced and revised the number of posts, specialisations required, and eligibility criteria for contractual assistant professor and guest faculty positions across various departments. The clarification comes within a week after notifying about the recruitment process.

Jamia has announced recruitment for contractual and guest faculty posts across departments, including engineering and technology, humanities and languages, social sciences, management, science, fine arts.

Eligible candidates will be able to check and apply for various posts on the official website, jmi.ac.in.

JMI Recruitment 2025: Major changes

Jamia Millia Islamia has reduced the vacancies for some departments and split some between contractual assistant professors and guest faculty.

The composition of vacancies for the Department of Social Work has been changed. Of the four guest faculty vacancies, three have been allotted for MA Social Work and teaching Multidisciplinary Course (MDC) and Value added Course(VAC) to UG students, and one for additional guest for teaching financial management for MA Human Resource Management (HRM) students.

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Salary for guest teachers

For the Department of Persian, the university announced two guest faculty posts. However, it has been reduced to only one for either Persian or Pashto.

JMI will accept applications for the posts till July 14. Those selected for contractual assistant professor positions will receive a monthly salary of Rs 89,435, which includes basic pay in academic pay level-10 and applicable DA. Guest teachers under the regular courses and self finance programmes will receive an honorarium of Rs 1,500 per lecture, subject to a maximum of Rs 50,000 per month.

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JMI Recruitment 2025: Eligibility, details

The revised eligibility criteria and number of vacancies for the six departments are as follows.

JMI Assistant Professor (Contractual), Guest Faculty

Revised details

Department of Social Work

One Assistant Professor for BA (Hons) Social Work and MA (Social Work).

Three Guest Faculty for MA Social Work and teaching Multidisciplinary Course (MDC) and Value added Course (VAC) to UG students.

One Guest Faculty for teaching Financial Management to the students of MA (HRM)

Department of Persian

Only one guest faculty for Persian OR Pashto

(Part time course)

AJK-MCRC

Two guest faculty for MA Convergent Journalism (SFS) programme for teaching:

i) Print Media Software -01

ii)Television and Video Journalism-01

Department of Economics

Three guest faculty (SFS) for MSc in Banking and Financial Analytics under self-finance programme:

i) MSc Banking and Financial Analytics (BFA)-02.

Specialization for Guest Faculty MCA/ MTech Computer Sciences / MSc Mathematics.

ii)MSc Banking and Financial Analytics (BFA) - 01

Specialization for Guest Faculty-MBA Finance/ Management (Finance) or Management (Finance) or MBA, MSc Banking and Financial Analytics, МА Economics with UGC NET or PhD

Department of Hospital Management and Hospice Studies

Two assistant professor (contractual)

i) MBA Pharmaceutical Management - 1 for assistant professor-contractual and 1 guest faculty.


MBA in Healthcare in Hospital Management/ Administration with at least 55% marks (or an equivalent grade in a point-scale, wherever the grading system is followed) from any reputed University of Institution recognized by UGC.

Department of Applied Arts

One Assistant Professor Contractual

Specialized in Computer Software applications, UI/UX design, web-based design and digital interface communication, essential for today's graphic design landscape

Two Guest Faculty:

Specialized in illustration and product, packaging design, both central to advertising, product marketing and visual storytelling

Specialized in craft communication, typography, stop motion animation and design education.

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