Ph.D.
IndSearch Research Center is one of the oldest Research Center permanently recognized by the Savitribai Phule Pune University. It conducts PhD Program of the S.P.Pune University in various functional areas of management including Financial Management, Marketing Management, Information Technology Management, Human Resources Management and Operations Management.
The selection process for PhD Program is as per the rules notified by the S.P.Pune University from time to time. Research Students admitted to the PhD Program are required to complete the required training course in ‘Research Methodology’. At present, 64 students are pursuing their PhD Program from the IndSearch Research Center in various functional areas of management.
Yearwise List Of Students Awarded Ph.d. Under Various Research Guides Associated With Indsearch Institute/Research Centre
| Year | Name Of The Research Guide | Name Of The Student | Date | |
| 1987 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Karandikar Anand Govind | 19-02-1987 | |
| 1989 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Deshmukh Amita Laxmikant | Feb. 1989 | |
| 1991 | Dr. M. D. Apte | Palsodkar Suresh G. | 15-03-1991 | |
| 1992 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Sathye Milind Mahadeo | 28-04-1992 | |
| 1993 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Khan Ahmad Umar | 09-10-1993 | |
| 1995 | Dr. K. M. Gavaskar | Khatter Ramchandra C. | 21-06-1995 | |
| 1995 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Chitale Chandrashekhar | 21-06-1995 | |
| 1995 | Dr. Anand Karandikar | Sinha Dhirendraji | 26-07-1995 | |
| 1995 | Dr. K.M.Gavaskar | Gad E. M. A. | 30-11-1995 | |
| 1995 | Dr. Mukund Mahajan | Shirude Gangadhar Kashinath | 29-12-1995 | |
| 1996 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Fulay Pravin Prabhakar | 08-01-1996 | |
| 1996 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Gunjal Sukhadeo Shivram | 31-01-1996 | |
| 1996 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Pillai A. Sivathanu | 18-05-1996 | |
| 1996 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Joshi Sharadchandra Laxman | 30-05-1996 | |
| 1996 | Dr. M. D. Apte | Sahasrabuddhe Malavika | June 1996 | |
| 1996 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Keskar Anil Rajaram | 24-08-1996 | |
| 1997 | Dr. P. G. Gadgil | Shaheen Mortaji | Mar. 1997 | |
| 1997 | Dr. P. G. Gadgil | Keskar Anagha Anil | Mar. 1997 | |
| 1998 | Dr. Mukund Mahajan | Joshi Seema Pradip | 13-05-1998 | |
| 1999 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Kale Anandkumar Dattatraya | 02-02-1999 | |
| 1999 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Parkhi Waman Gajanan | 04-10-1999 | |
| 1999 | Dr. A. V. Raman | Daffar Azida | Nov. 1999 | |
| 2000 | Dr. A. V. Raman | Md. Hussain Mozzam | Nov. 2000 | |
| 2000 | Dr. A. V. Raman | Dr. B.N.F. Warna Kulsooriya | Dec. 2000 | |
| 2000 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Lakshminarayanana Ramakrishnan | 18-12-2000 | |
| 2001 | Dr. Mukund Mahajan | Wadikar Ashok Laxman | 14-05-2001 | |
| 2001 | Dr. Mukund Mahajan | Bhong G. L. | June 2001 | |
| 2001 | Dr. A. V. Raman | Dr. Hossain Afjal | Dec. 2001 | |
| 2002 | Dr. Mukund Mahajan | Dr. Eton Jeremain | April 2002 | |
| 2002 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Venkataramani Bhama | 30-11-2002 | |
| 2003 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Apte Netra Shashikant | 10-03-2003 | |
| 2003 | Dr. A. V. Raman | T. Sahay | 21-04-2003 | |
| 2003 | Dr. Anand Karandikar | Phadtare Milind Trivikram | 13-06-2003 | |
| 2003 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Date Sadanand Vasant | 02-12-2003 | |
| 2004 | Dr. S.U.Gawade | Zaware Ram S. | 16-06-2004 | |
| 2005 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Vechalekar Nachiket Madhav | 31-03-2005 | |
| 2005 | Dr. S. D. Tupe | Nawale Vijaya Sukhadeo | 05-04-2005 | |
| 2005 | Dr. Anil Keskar | Pachpande Sandeep Raghunath | 11-02-2006 | |
| 2005 | Dr. Anil Keskar | Mehdi Karim-Zandi | 12-07-2008 | |
| 2006 | Dr. Anand Karandikar | Kulkarni Smita Santosh | 12-04-2006 | |
| 2006 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Kulkarni Pradeep Ganesh | 02-08-2006 | |
| 2006 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Inamdar Satish Mahadeo | 23-09-2006 | |
| 2007 | Dr. S. U. Gawade | Kulkarni Prasad Vishnu | 03-03-2007 | |
| 2007 | Dr. S. U. Gawade | Nawale Sunanda Maruti | 07-03-2007 | |
| 2007 | Dr. Anil Keskar | Wankhede Shirish Purushottam | 20-06-2007 | |
| 2007 | Dr. S. U. Gawade | Najafi Shariatzadeh Iraj | 05-07-2007 | |
| 2007 | Dr. Sharad Joshi | Damle Pramod Pandurang | 16-11-2007 | |
| 2007 | Dr. S. U. Gawade | Nandavadekar Vilas Dattu | 12-12-2007 | |
| 2008 | Dr. Sharad Joshi | Khatavkar Waman Narayan | 04-10-2008 | |
| 2008 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Devere Jaideep | 06-10-2008 | |
| 2009 | Dr. K. B. Deo | Kinkar Ravindra Yashwant | 27-01-2009 | |
| 2009 | Dr. S. U. Gawade | Shanoy Sunil Umakant | 03-02-2009 | |
| 2009 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Ranade Rajeev Balwant | 14-03-2009 | |
| 2009 | Dr. Mukund Mahajan | Shaikh Naseem Muzzafar | 18-03-2009 | |
| 2009 | Dr. Sharad Joshi | Sardesai Swati Prakash | 17-04-2009 | |
| 2009 | Dr. Anand Karandikar | Joshi Sunita Ashok | 18-04-2009 | |
| 2009 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Pathak Anand Kamleshwar | 20-04-2009 | |
| 2009 | Dr. Prasanna Deshmukh | Bagul Dhananjay Bhaskarrao | 02-06-2009 | |
| 2009 | Dr. S. U. Gawade | Chavan Smita Ravindra | 26-09-2009 | |
| 2009 | Dr. Anand Karandikar | Patil Ajit Vilas | 09-10-2009 | |
| 2009 | Dr. K. B. Deo | Chitre Rajesh Janardan | 26-10-2009 | |
| 2010 | Dr. Sharad Joshi | Markale Aditi Amod | 19-06-2010 | |
| 2010 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Date Manisha Sadanand | 11-10-2010 | |
| 2010 | Dr. S. U. Gawade | Jadhav Rajani Anil | 16-10-2010 | |
| 2011 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Chatterjee Indra Nath | 19-03-2011 | |
| 2011 | Dr. Anand Jumle | Saraf Chandrakant Umakant | 12-07-2011 | |
| 2011 | Dr. Prasanna Deshmukh | Deshpande Mahesh Ramesh | 08-09-2011 | |
| 2011 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Mandal Baishali Baidyanath | 21-09-2011 | |
| 2011 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Chopde Manisha Bapusaheb | 29-09-2011 | |
| 2011 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Gokhale Sandeep Nishikant | 04-11-2011 | |
| 2011 | Dr. R. M. Kharche | Gholampoor Mahdieh | 04-11-2011 | |
| 2011 | Dr. Sharad Joshi | Halale Mahesh Shankarrao | 07-12-2011 | |
| 2012 | Dr. Sharad Joshi | Renavikar Ashwini Atul | 04-01-2012 | |
| 2012 | Dr. Sharad Joshi | Parastoo Sedaghat | 04-01-2012 | |
| 2012 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Maslekar Suwarna Shrihari | 07-02-2012 | |
| 2013 | Dr. S. D. Tupe | Chaudhari Rajendra Daulat | 18-01-2013 | |
| 2013 | Dr. Sharad Joshi | Sarkar Anuradha Satyaranjan | 07-08-2013 | |
| 2013 | Dr. Prasanna Deshmukh | Shikhare Rachana Rajendra | 29-11-2013 | |
| 2014 | Dr. N.M.Vechalekar | Chiplunkar Yogini Vidyadhar | 18-02-2014 | |
| 2014 | Dr. Sharad Joshi | Panse Chetan Padmakar | 11-04-2014 | |
| 2014 | Dr. Ajay Kumar | Pisal Dnyaneshwar Tukaram | 26-07-2014 | |
| 2014 | Dr. Anand Jumle | Mahamuni Pravin Narayan | 28-07-2014 | |
| 2014 | Dr. S. G. Palsodkar | Ekbote Nandini Vivek | 08-08-2014 | |
| 2014 | Dr. N.M.Vechalekar | Bhargave Sanjay Ramchandra | 14-08-2014 | |
| 2014 | Dr. N.M.Vechalekar | Joshi Dhananjay Vishnu | 17-10-2014 | |
| 2014 | Dr. Milind Phadtare | Benyada Krajangjaeng | 08-11-2014 | |
| 2014 | Dr. Prasanna Deshmukh | Bhate Manasi Sameer | 08-11-2014 | |
| 2014 | Dr. Shailesh Kasande | Gholizadeh Meidani Iman Reza | 19-11-2014 | |
| 2014 | Dr. Ajay Kumar | Wakhare Gorakh Laxman | 24-11-2014 | |
| 2015 | Dr. Shailesh Kasande | Patwardhan Umesh Bhaskar | 19-01-2015 | |
| 2015 | Dr. N.M.Vechalekar | Prabhu Gauri Vijay | 20-04-2015 | |
| 2015 | Dr. Sharad Joshi | Bhide Shilpa Vasant | 03-06-2015 | |
| 2015 | Dr. Anand Karandikar | Gadekar Mahesh Balkrishna | 24-06-2015 | |
| 2015 | Dr. Anand Karandikar | Kale Kalindi Avinash | 03-07-2015 | |
| 2015 | Dr. R.M.Kharche | Kansara Surendra Ramakant | 14-07-2015 | |
| 2015 | Dr. Milind Phadtare | Bhandari Jitendra Basappa | 25-07-2015 | |
| 2015 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Wagh Vasant Kondiba | 11-08-2015 | |
| 2015 | Dr. R.M.Kharche | Telang Girish Prabhakarrao | 25-08-2015 | |
| 2015 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Thatte Ashish Prakash | Oct. 2015 | |
| 2015 | Dr. Milind Phadtare | Dandekakr-Humnekar Trupti Nishant | 30-12-2015 | |
| 2016 | Dr. Sharad Joshi | Mulay Pravin Gajanan | 08-03-2016 | |
| 2016 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Tembulkar Aparna Anand | 30-07-2016 | |
| 2016 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Peshve Vikas Digambar | 20-08-2016 | |
| 2016 | Dr. Anand Karandikar | Sundrani Deepak Murlidhar | 08-10-2016 | |
| 2016 | Dr. Milind Phadtare | Owhal Shrawan Bhikaji | 08-10-2016 | |
| 2016 | Dr. Shailesh Kasande | Vispute Jayashree Nitin | 10-10-2016 | |
| 2016 | Dr. Shailesh Kasande | Dewasthale Giribala Sameer | 25-10-2016 | |
| 2016 | Dr. R.M.Kharche | Kakade Shubhangi Sudhir | 18-11-2016 | |
| 2016 | Dr. Ajay Kumar | Wakhare Goraksh Laxman | 24-11-2016 | |
| 2016 | Dr. Shailesh Kasande | Koshti Machhindranath Raghunath | 26-12-2016 | |
| 2017 | Dr. N.M. Vechalekar | Kurundwadkar Dattatraya Govindrao | 28-06-2017 | |
| 2017 | Dr. N.M. Vechalekar | Shridhar Jayaraman | 07-07-2017 | |
| 2017 | Dr. Sanhita Athawale | Chandrachud Mugdha Vijay | 20-07-2017 | |
| 2017 | Dr. Sanhita Athawale | Gaikwad Mahesh Bhanudas | 18-08-2017 | |
| 2017 | Dr. Ashok Joshi | Pillai Biju Gopinathan | 29-12-2017 | |
| 2018 | Dr. Shailesh Kasande | Purandare Avinash Shrinivas | 12-03-2018 | |
| 2018 | Dr. Anand Karandikar | Fegade Atul Narayan | 28-03-2018 | |
| 2018 | Dr. Anand G. Jumle | Suryawanshi Pravin Balasaheb | 06-04-2018 | |
| 2018 | Dr. Anand Karandikar | Patil Nilesh Vasantrao | 09-04-2018 | |
| 2018 | Dr. Anand Karandikar | Kadam Rajashr iRamchandra | 02-05-2018 | |
| 2018 | Dr. Anand G. Jumle | Ali Sanee Scoyi Rahim | 14-05-2018 | |
| 2018 | Dr. Netra S. Apte | Jadhav Amita Dayanand | 04-08-2018 | |
| 2018 | Dr. Anand Karandikar | Athavale Shubhada Anant | 27-08-2018 | |
| 2018 | Dr. P.G. Deshmukh | Waghmare Rajesh Prabhakar | 17-11-2018 | |
| 2018 | Dr. Anand G. Jumle | Gore Santosh Ramchandra | 27-11-2018 | |
| 2019 | Dr. Prasanna Deshmukh | Swami Shalini Maruti | 04-01-2019 | |
| 2019 | Dr. L. Ramakrishnan | Ajay Kumar | 08-04-2019 | |
| 2019 | Dr. Netra S. Apte | Mahesh Keshavrao Bendre | 11-12-2019 | |
| 2020 | Dr. Shailesh Kasande | Lande Manisha Dhiren | 13-01-2020 |
Candidates currently pursuing Ph.D.
| Year | Name Of The Research Guide | Name Of The Student | Expected Date |
| 2014 | Dr. Mrs. Charusheela Birajdar | Shinde Gauri Madhukar | October 2020 |
| 2014 | Dr. L. Ramakrishnan | Patil Priti Dighambar | October 2020 |
| 2015 | Dr. Vishwanath Lele | Agashe Sameer Kishor | October 2020 |
| 2015 | Dr. Vishwanath Lele | Desai Supriya Pavan | October 2020 |
| 2015 | Dr. Vishwanath Lele | Bhatia Dhrupa Basant | October 2020 |
| 2015 | Dr. Vishwanath Lele | Yadav Manjushri Janardan | October 2020 |
| 2015 | Dr. Vishwanath Lele | Phadke Rahul Yeshwant | October 2020 |
| 2015 | Dr. Mrs. Netra Apte | Satav Savita Shashikant | Discontinued |
| 2016 | Dr. Vishwanath Lele | Jadhav Sadhana Vijay | October 2020 |
| 2018 | Dr. Mrs. Charusheela Birajdar | Bhandarkar Kaustubh Kamalesh | October 2023 |
| 2019 | Dr. L. Ramakrishnan | Kale Shivraj Laxmanrao | October 2020 |