Scholarships & Financial Assitance

Dear Students

Fill in your application through https://dost.iitm.ac.in/iitmdost/login (Sign in using LDAP credentials and view details under Awards & Scholarship).   The online application portal will be accessible from 13th March, 2025.

The last date for the submission of nominations is 5.00 pm on 21st March, 2025.

A representative list of scholarships is below.

  1. Malathi Veeraraghavan Prize 2025
  2. Sri K M Ramamurthi Prize 2025
  3. Shankar Family & Venkitaramanan Scholarships 2025
  4. Kalidas Madhavpeedi Scholarship 2025
Please visit https://www.iitm.ac.in/academics/academic-services/scholarships-and-financial-assistance for a more extensive list of scholarships & financial assistance.

Malathi Veeraraghavan Prize 

Prize Criteria:

  • For 3rd year B.Tech./Dual Degree woman student with the top all-round performance at the end of her 5th semester.
  • The applicant’s CGPA should be in the top 20% among all the girl students of her corresponding year’s B.Tech./Dual Degree class/batch.
  • The applicant should not have been awarded any punishment on disciplinary grounds.

Sri KM Ramamurthi Prize

Prize Criteria:

  • The best B.Tech student among the branches of CH, CE, ME, MM & NA on the basis of their performance in the first six semesters and their attainments in cultural activities, literary events, sports, good citizenship, etc.
  • The applicant should not have been awarded any punishment on disciplinary grounds.

Shankar Family Scholarship

Available scholarships: 9

(awarded to three 2nd-year students, three 3rd-year students, and three 4th-year students from B.Tech or DD programmes)

Scholarship criteria:

  • Participation in sports/extra-curricular and co-curricular activities at the inter-hostel level or the Inter-IIT level.
  • A CGPA above 7.5.
  • Parents’ annual income should be below 8 lakhs per annum.
  • The student should not be receiving any other scholarship.
  • The student should not have been awarded any punishment on disciplinary grounds.

Venkitaramanan Scholarship

Available scholarships: 9

(awarded to three 2nd-year students, three 3rd-year students, and three 4th-year students from B.Tech or DD programmes)

Scholarship criteria:

  • Participation in sports/extra-curricular and co-curricular activities at the inter-hostel level or the Inter-IIT level.
  • A CGPA above 7.5.
  • Parents’ annual income should be below 8 lakhs per annum.
  • The student should not be receiving any other scholarship.
  • The student should not have been awarded any punishment on disciplinary grounds.

Kalidas Madhavpeedi Scholarship 

The Kalidas Madhavpeddi Scholarship is awarded to the best BTech and Dual Degree student of the Civil Engineering Department based on the Curricular and Co-Curricular activities.

Scholarship criteria:

  • The applicant has demonstrated leadership and teamwork.
  • Social service on- and off-campus.
  • The applicant should not have been awarded any punishment on disciplinary grounds.