🎓 IIT Bombay Scholarships 2025 – Complete Guide

IIT Bombay offers a diverse array of scholarships and financial assistance programs to support students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. These initiatives aim to promote academic excellence, equity, and inclusivity.

🎖️ Undergraduate Scholarships

🏅 Merit-Cum-Means (MCM) Scholarship

• Eligibility: B.Tech and Dual Degree (B.Tech + M.Tech) students with family income ≤ ₹1 lakh/year.

• Benefits:

  • Full tuition fee waiver.

  • Annual scholarship of ₹40,000.

  • Women Merit Scholarship of ₹10,000/year.

• Application: Awarded to a maximum of 25% of the sanctioned intake based on academic merit and means criteria.

• Renewability: Renewable annually based on academic performance.

🏅 Free Messing Facilities (SC/ST Students)

• Eligibility: SC/ST students whose parental income ≤ ₹5 lakh/year.

• Benefits:

  • Exemption from tuition fees.

  • Free messing facilities (basic menu).

  • Pocket allowance of ₹500/month.

  • Exemption from hostel room rent.

• Application: Automatically awarded based on eligibility.

🏅 Named Scholarships (IIT Bombay Alumni Association)

• Eligibility: Varies; typically awarded to students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

• Benefits: Covers annual tuition and mess expenses.

• Application: Managed by the IIT Bombay Alumni Association; students are nominated based on need and merit.

🏅 OPJEMS Scholarship

• Eligibility: Top 2 students from each batch in Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, and Metallurgical Engineering streams; top 12 students from other streams.

• Benefits: ₹65,000 per year.

• Application: Selection based on an online test and interview.

🏅 INSPIRE Scholarship

• Eligibility: Students in the top 1% of their class in Natural & Basic Sciences; top 10,000 ranks in JEE Advanced.

• Benefits: ₹80,000 per year.

• Application: Application process details available from IIT Bombay.

🎓 Postgraduate Scholarships

🎓 Teaching Assistantship (TA)

• Eligibility: Full-time M.Tech, M.Des, M.S. by Research, and Ph.D. students.

• Benefits:

  • ₹37,000/month for the first 2 years.

  • ₹42,000/month for the remaining period.

  • Exemption from tuition fees.

• Application: Automatically awarded upon admission.

🎓 Research Assistantship (RA)

• Eligibility: Full-time M.Tech, M.S. by Research, and Ph.D. students.

• Benefits: ₹37,000/month; continuation subject to satisfactory academic performance.

• Application: Offered by individual departments based on research projects.

🎓 Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF)

• Eligibility: Top-performing M.Tech and Ph.D. students with exceptional academic credentials.

• Benefits:

  • ₹70,000/month.

  • Contingency grant of ₹2 lakh/year.

• Application: Nomination by IIT Bombay; application through the PMRF portal.

🎓 UGC/CSIR Research Fellowship

• Eligibility: Ph.D. students with valid CSIR-UGC NET-JRF qualification.

• Benefits: ₹31,000–₹35,000/month plus HRA and contingency grants.

• Application: Apply through CSIR/UGC channels and inform IIT Bombay.

🎓 Financial Aid Programme (FAP)

• Eligibility: All undergraduate and postgraduate students at IIT Bombay.

• Benefits: Merit and need-based scholarships; career preparedness initiatives.

• Application: Managed by the IIT Bombay Alumni Association; students can apply through the official portal.

🏢 Government & Private Sector Scholarships

National Scholarship Portal (NSP)

• Eligibility: Access to various central government scholarships like Post-Matric, Pre-Matric, and Merit-cum-Means schemes.

• Application: Apply via the National Scholarship Portal.

State-Specific Scholarships

• Eligibility: Students belonging to states like Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, etc., are eligible under their respective state government schemes.

• Application: Apply through individual state scholarship portals.

Private Sector Scholarships

• Examples:

  • Aditya Birla Scholarship

  • Tata Trusts Scholarships

  • Reliance Foundation Scholarships

• Application: Apply through respective scholarship providers' portals.

📌 Final Notes

• Renewability: Most scholarships are renewable annually based on CGPA (typically ≥ 6.5–7.0) and academic progress.

• Application Process: Students are advised to track notices on the IIT Bombay website, student portals, and academic office announcements for deadlines.

• Scholarship Cell: IIT Bombay has a dedicated scholarship and financial aid cell to guide and support students throughout the application process.