Scholarships for Indian Students

Dated - July 24, 2024

Going abroad is a dream for any Indian and going abroad for undergraduate degree or post graduation is a delightful feeling. Students do choose going abroad to get opportunities to boost their career and gaining wide exposure. But studying abroad comes with a lot of challenges and one of which Is having a budget to study overseas. As the fees to study overseas can be huge for Indian students.

However to deal with this challenge several international scholarships for Indian students are available, with these scholarships for Indian students, it becomes easy for students to survive internationally. These scholarships help students with their tuition fees, travelling expenses,rents,medical expenses and others.

This blog covers all the essential aspects you should know about these scholarships, which includes all the types of overseas scholarships available for Indian students from undergraduate degree to post graduation programs. You will also get insight about top scholarship programs available, some tips for exam preparation, with common mistakes done by students.

This will be your guide for scholarships and help you get admission in any government or private institution.

Let's us begin

Types of Foreign Scholarships for Indian Students -

Government funded Scholarships:

Even after being in merit students are unable to bear their expenses for international study, thus the government of India provides a 100 percent scholarship to study abroad for Indian students. The aim of the government is to boost study overseas.

Some government scholarships are listed below:

Full Bright scholarship program:

This scholarship is for students desiring for admission in the universities of the United States. This is a fully funded Scholarships which provide funds for all your expenses while living in the US throughout the course duration.

Benefits:

Covers transportation expenses
Support for students available 24/7
Covers accidental and medical benefits.

Eligibility:

Students must be a US citizen before applying for this scholarship
Applicants must have an undergraduate degree
Must be good in language skills

National overseas scholarship:

A scholarship program that aims to help financially weak students from groups like scheduled castes,artisan, agricultural workers, and others to pursue their post graduate degree or doctorate degree internationally. Each year 125 students are awarded with this scholarship.

Benefits:

Covers visa charges
Covers medical expenses
Provides contingent allowances upto $1500

Eligibility:

Students with an offer letter from any of the top 500 QS Ranking institutions are eligible to apply
At least 60% required in undergraduate degree programs
Not be more than 35 years in age
Income of the student's entire family should be below 8 lakhs

Country based scholarships:

Scholarships which are provided by the welcoming countries to the students based on merit and financial background and courses. Scholarships like -

Australian awards scholarship:

This scholarship is provided by the department of foreign affairs and trade administration of Australia. It is offered for the entire duration of course. Students of more than 100+ counties can apply for this scholarship and it covers vocational courses, undergraduate programs, post graduation programs and doctorate degrees.

Benefits:

This scholarship pays students entire tuition fees with one side travel expenses, rents, medical expenses,and other living expenses.

Eligibility:

Candidates must be above 18 years of age
Is a resident of an eligible country
Should not have any criminal background
Should not be a part of any other long term scholarship before
Must have a score of minimum 6.5 band in IELTS, 84 in TOEFL or in PTE academic 58

University based scholarships:

Scholarships given by Universities itself to the students applying their. This scholarships can be either fully paid or partially paid based on the university you are applying for.

Here are some name for University based scholarships program:

Concordia Presidential Scholarship:

If you are planning to apply to Concordia University,then you should apply for this prestigious scholarship if you fulfil all the eligibility criteria. Students have two chances to apply for this scholarship in a span of a year.

You could get paid for your tuition fees, living expenses which also includes food expenses and books in this scholarship.

Benefits:

Students will get the benefits to study for free in the university and have free meals too.

Eligibility:

Applicant in first year of undergraduate degree program and applying for the first time
Enrolled in a full-time UG degree program
Will be applying for Concordia Presidential Scholarship of this year
The student must have taken the admission in university and has the student ID of Concordia University

Chevening scholarship:

A scholarship funded by the government of the UK, It's offered to the students from all over the world for pursuing post graduation program in any subject field. This also gives allowance for all the expenditure of a student.

Eligibility:

Must be a citizen of any participating country
A fully funded scholarship for Indian postgraduate students
Work experience of 2 years
Have an offer letter from at least a university

Private scholarships:

When a scholarship is funded by a private institutional group or NGO it is known as a private scholarship.

Some fully paid private scholarships are:

Tata group scholarships:

Only provided to Indian students wanting to pursue undergraduate degree from Cornell University.

It is Tata's educational and development trust scholarship. Aims to give financial aid to the students.

Some more private scholarships are named below:

Microsoft scholarships
K.C. Mahindra scholarships
Sussex india scholarships

Benefits:

Students can select the college of their choice
Students can use the money for any purpose related to their study
It doesn't always depend on students' academic performance

Eligibility:

Students must be enrolled in any foreign University
Must have cleared the required exams like SAT, IELTS
Have family income below 8 lakhs

And fulfil all the criterias required as per the scholarship program.