Applications Invited for All Young India Fellows Scholarship Programme

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About the Organization

Ashoka University is named after Emperor Ashoka (c. 304 – 232 BC) who represents India’s highest values and ideals. Emperor Ashoka’s dhamma revolved around liberal thought and education. Having personally undergone a self-transformation, Emperor Ashoka went on to spread his ideas far and wide across Asia.

Drawing from Emperor Ashoka’s life of learning and transformation, Ashoka University provides a holistic education that is liberal, multidisciplinary, and interdisciplinary, offering a diverse and inclusive space for its students to think deeply and critically, learn across disciplinary boundaries, express themselves creatively, and communicate with meaning to cause impact and change. Students are encouraged to explore ideas, engage in research, and focus on values and ideals of the highest order to experience self-transformation within the duration of their education and henceforth.

About the Scholarship

Ashoka University announced today that all Fellows will receive scholarships – partial or full – for the upcoming 2025-26 cohort of the Young India Fellowship, its flagship postgraduate programme. Scholarships will start from a 25% waiver on tuition and go up to a 100% waiver on tuition, residence, and meals along with a stipend for financial assistance. The Chancellor’s Merit Scholarship will continue to be awarded in the Class of 2026.

81% of the current cohort (2024-25) of Young India Fellows is on partial or full scholarships, with 60% of the cohort on a full tuition waiver or more. Roughly 1/3rd of the current Fellows identify as first-generation college goers.

Eligibility

The Class of 2026 will comprise around 100 Fellows. Candidates of all age groups and nationalities, across diverse academic, professional, geographical and socioeconomic backgrounds, who have a recognised undergraduate degree in any discipline by July 2025 or earlier (can be a final-year student at the time of application) are eligible to apply for the YIF

How to Apply

The admissions process opens on October 15, 2024 and is split into two rounds, with the first application deadline being January 5, 2025. Candidates are encouraged to apply early, even within a round, to partake in the rolling personal interviews process.

To apply, aspirants should visit apply.ashoka.edu.in to register their account and complete the online application. Following holistic assessment of applications, a few candidates will be shortlisted for personal interviews. Some shortlisted candidates will receive another invitation to appear for the Chancellor’s Merit Scholarship interview.

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