🎓 IIT Goa Scholarships 2025 – Complete Guide

IIT Goa provides a comprehensive range of scholarships and financial assistance programs designed to help students from diverse backgrounds achieve academic success and support their financial needs. These scholarships promote academic excellence, merit, and equity at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

🎖️ Undergraduate Scholarships

🏅 Central Sector Scholarship for Top Class Education for SC/ST Students

• Eligibility: SC/ST category students with annual family income ≤ ₹8 lakh.

• Benefits: Full tuition fee waiver, monthly stipend, cost of books, living expenses, and computer funding.

• Application: Apply through the National Scholarship Portal (NSP). Early application recommended.

🏅 Merit-Cum-Means (MCM) Scholarship

• Eligibility: B.Tech students with family income ≤ ₹4.5 lakh/year, minimum required academic performance.

• Benefits: ₹1,000 per month for 10 months and full tuition fee waiver.

• Application: Apply through IIT Goa’s internal scholarship portal.

🏅 Institute Merit Scholarships (IMS)

• Eligibility: Top-performing undergraduate students based on academic merit.

• Benefits: Semester-wise partial tuition fee reimbursement.

• Application: Automatically awarded based on performance, no separate application required.

🏅 Foundation for Excellence (FFE) Scholarship

• Eligibility: High-achieving B.Tech students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds (family income ≤ ₹3 lakh/year).

• Benefits: Financial support towards tuition fees and academic expenses.

• Application: Apply via the FFE portal and validate through IIT Goa administration.

🎓 Postgraduate Scholarships

🎓 MHRD/AICTE Scholarship for M.Tech Students

• Eligibility: Full-time M.Tech students admitted via GATE with valid scores.

• Benefits: ₹12,400 per month stipend for 24 months (2 years).

• Application: Automatically awarded upon admission and verification.

🎓 Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF)

• Eligibility: Direct Ph.D. or M.Tech-to-Ph.D. applicants with high academic credentials.

• Benefits: Fellowship up to ₹70,000/month plus contingency grants of ₹2 lakh/year.

• Application: Apply via the PMRF portal and nomination by IIT Goa.

🎓 UGC/CSIR Research Fellowship

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

• Benefits: ₹31,000–₹35,000 monthly stipend plus HRA and contingency grants.

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

🏢 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 Goa, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Uttar Pradesh are eligible under their respective state government schemes.

• Application: Apply through individual state scholarship portals.

Private Sector Scholarships

• Examples:

  • Tata Trusts Scholarships

  • Aditya Birla Scholarship

  • Indian Oil Academic 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 should keep track of notices on the IIT Goa website, student portals, and academic office announcements for deadlines.

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