National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), established in 2007, is a centre of excellence in science education and research in all areas of basic sciences that includes Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Sciences, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Humanities and Social Sciences. NISER, an aided institute of the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, conducts the following programmes in science education with the degrees being awarded by the Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai. (a) An integrated 5‐year M. Sc. Programme in the core and emerging branches of Basic Sciences to students after their 10+2 Higher Secondary Schooling or equivalent. (b) Integrated M.Sc‐Ph.Dprogramme after B.Sc. (or equivalent degree) from other recognized Universities/Institutes. (c) Ph.D Programmes after M.Sc. (or equivalent degree) from recognized Universities/Institutions. (d) Two-year M.Sc in Medical and Radiological Physics after B.Sc (Physics) from recognized Universities/Institutes. NISER carries out both theoretical and experimental research in frontier areas in all branches of science.