Fully Funded Scholarships in India (Study India Scholarships)

The Study in India program has designed a framework to award scholarships and tuition fee waivers for meritorious students applying to the program. The Study in India team has collaborated with the Indian government wings – MHRD, MEA, and MIC, to draw out this scheme. The program offers scholarships called the Study in India Scholarships on an annual basis, while its partner institutes provide tuition fee waivers.

The Study in India Scholarship scheme covers the admission fees, tuition fees, accommodation (room and boring) costs, and food costs. Any costs and expenses outside the above mentioned are not considered under this scheme. The scheme is further divided into two sub-schemes, based on a merit list and the Ind-SAT examination. A set of scholarships are offered based on a merit-list, which is evaluated and verified by the Study in India team during the document verification process. The team also reviews and awards scholarships to exemplary students who appear for the online-proctored, 90-minute Ind-SAT examination conducted by the Study in India team and the National Testing Agency.

More than 30,000 tuition fee waivers are given to deserving students by our partner institutes in the ranges of 100%, 50%, and 25%. The number of fee waivers available, vary from institute to institute across the mentioned ranges. The costs covered under this scheme only waives off tuition fee for one academic year.

Scholarship

Study in India, with the help of the following Indian ministries – the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, is offering 2000 scholarships worth INR 250,000 each for the academic year 2020-21.

Every meritorious student that has been offered this scholarship by the Study in India team shall receive it for a maximum period:

• of 5 years for undergraduate integrated courses;
• of 3 or 4 years for undergraduate courses, according to the course duration;
• of 2 years for postgraduate courses;
• or, till the completion of this course, whichever is lesser.

Please note, scholarships are only available for the above-listed categories, and not for Ph.D., M.Phil and Doctoral level courses.

To apply for this scholarship, students should have registered with SII, completed an application on our website www.studyinindia.gov.in and SII-partnered institution. The scholarships are awarded on the following basis:

• Students should have had a meritorious academic history in his / her secondary school, higher secondary school, and/or the latest educational qualification.
• Students may appear for the Ind-SAT exam conducted by the SII team across the given list of countries. A merit list would be generated for the second-wave of shortlisting.
• According to the country-wise allocated quota and other criteria, the final shortlisted will be contacted by the SII team.

A few important clauses about the scholarship for the students applying for the SII scholarship:

• Each scholarship is valued at INR 250,000 per student per year.
• Each scholarship under the SII scheme will only cover tuition, accommodation, food, and admission fees. No other expense listed outside this set will be provided for under this scholarship.
• If the total fees of the course for each year, which includes tuition, accommodation, food, and admission, is lesser than the proposed value of INR 250,000, the lesser amount will be awarded as a scholarship.
• All scholarships are electronically transferred to the institutes.
• The scholarship amount will be transferred to institutes after verifying the student’s attendance for the first month.
• All scholarships are renewable on a year-on-year basis until the day of graduation.

Before releasing the final offer letter to students, each online application will be verified by the institute and the SII team. For further information, read through the clauses given below carefully before applying for the Study in India (SII) scholarship.