IV) Try Out Scholarships!

Hi,

Hope my earlier posts have been useful to at least few of you guys. So here after writing posts on financial documents, loans, and F1 visa, I am planning to write the post on scholarships which could definitely help few of aspiring students. Actually, UB as such doesn't provide scholarships to the international students for Master's program. But there are multiple sources from you could get the scholarship.

One such scholarship was "Sakal scholarship" which I thought I missed though, but through which I started searching for other external scholarships. Also, I couldn't forget to add my mother's name due to which I actually started looking and applying for scholarships. You guys might be wondering that when UB provides low tuition fees, then why should we actually search for the scholarship?
Yeah! that's what I had exactly asked my mother.
Her reply was "There is the different pride while studying with scholarship!"

And then with her one reply, I was damn satisfied, because gaining scholarship was a challenge to me. Let's see if I would get the scholarship or not.

1. Sakal scholarship:

• Forms: In Sakal newspaper, it is published about the forms in the first week of April. One needs to write the application letter and send along with the copy of i20 or/both admit letter with 10Rs stamp paper to its office. Then they would send you the application form by post or you may collect it from there office. The last date to send the application letter is 31st May and fully filled scholarship form is 15th June.
• Results: Will be declared after 15 of June
• Loan amount of sixty thousand would be received as the scholarship, which can be paid within the two years time frame.
• One of the UB aspirants did receive the scholarship this year! Read in the newspaper.

Attachment: Application for scholarship

2. Aga Khan Foundation Scholarship:

• I had emailed akf-isp@akesi.org regarding the scholarship forms. They, in turn, redirected me to mail akfispindia.2017@gmail.com The response to the mail was fast, they indeed emailed me the forms along with the dos and don'ts well addressed. Unfortunately, I didn't apply to this scholarship purely because the deadline was very close & getting hard copies of three recommendations and then sending the copies to the Delhi office was the problem due to the time constraint
• The scholarship provided by Aga Khan foundation is of type - interest-free loan amount.

3. J N TATA Endowment: 

• Those who secure admission in Cornell University, a scholarship given to them are in good numbers.
• For others, they provide the loan scholarship. i.e they provide the loan without interest. For few, they even give provide scholarship amount without repayment.
• Complete process to apply for the scholarship is online. All the proof documents along with the recommendation letters need to be uploaded.
• The last date to apply for the TATA scholarship is 31st March
• My bad luck, scholarship application got rejected on 11th April

4.  K.C Mahindra Scholarship:

• We need to download the Mahindra Scholarship forms from their website. Then after completing the application form, along with the proofs and recommendation letters we need to post them to the address mentioned somewhere in Mumbai.
• The last date to apply for the K.C Mahindra Scholarship was in the mid-20s of march'.

5. Narotam Sekhsaria Foundation:

• The scholarship is in form of zero interest loan. 
• This is the only scholarship where we need to pay 500 rupees before starting the scholarship application process.
•  The application form is completely online. 
• On the website, it was also mentioned about the mentors to be assigned to the scholarship holders. 
• The last date to apply for the Narotam Sekhsaria foundation scholarship is 31st March.

Thanks,
NK