NIT Jamshedpur Scholarships 2026 - Details, Eligibility, Amount

NIT Jamshedpur maintains the affordability and accessibility of its courses through the NIT Jamshedpur scholarships. These scholarship schemes are provided to meritorious and financially underprivileged students to encourage them to take part in professional higher education courses. Moreover, the NIT Jamshedpur scholarship schemes ensure that no student suffers from financial hardship during their course of study at the institution. 

NIT Jamshedpur has an array of scholarship provisions, and the NIT Jamshedpur scholarships are divided into broad categories. Below is detailed information on the scholarships available at NIT Jamshedpur.

Welfare Department Scholarship, Govt. of Jharkhand 

This scholarship is exclusively for students who belong to the minority categories such as scheduled tribe (ST), scheduled cast (SC), or other backward class (OBC). Moreover, only students from Jharkhand can apply for this scholarship scheme.

Foundation for Academic Excellence and Access Scholarship

Foundation for Academic Excellence and Access (FAEA) offers scholarships to students to facilitate undergraduate studies in arts, commerce, science, medical, or engineering. These scholarships are also available for students pursuing other technical or professional courses at any university/institution/college in India.

Special Scholarship Scheme for Jammu and Kashmir

Students from Jammu & Kashmir pursuing general degree courses, medical courses, engineering courses, etc. outside the state, may apply for scholarships under this scheme. Students need to apply through the institute in which they are studying.

National Handicapped Finance and Development Corporation Scholarship

This is a national scholarship scheme for eligible students with disabilities for pursuing higher academic, professional, or technical courses from Indian institutes.

NTPC Scholarship for Engineering Students

NTPC scholarship is for students belonging to the SC/ST/PwD categories (hearing handicapped/visually handicapped/orthopedically handicapped) who are pursuing four-year full-time degree in engineering in mechanical, computer science, telecommunication/electronics, mechanical, and computer science from a reputed college/institute.

Indian Oil Educational Scholarship Scheme

IndianOil offers 2,600 Scholarships for students of Class 10/ITI, engineering, MBBS, MBA courses on merit-cum-means basis pursuing. Students need to be pursuing full time/regular courses (not correspondence/distance/online mode) in these streams from schools/colleges/institutions/universities recognised by MCI/AICTE/State Education Boards/State Govt./ICSE/ISC/CBSE/Central Govt./Association of Indian Universities (AIU).

CDIF Scholarship Programme TATA CUMMINS

Cummins Group provides this scholarship to students from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. The scholarship programme for students pursuing diploma/degree in engineering/other professional degree courses from various locations where Cummins Group Company has presence.

Merit Cum Means Scholarship

This NIT Jamshedpur scholarship scheme is for underprivileged meritorious students belonging to minority communities. The aim of the scholarship is to enable them to pursue professional and technical courses from a recognised institute. 

O.P. Jindal Engineering and Management Scholarships (OPJEMS)

NIT Jamshedpur offers this scholarship to the first three toppers of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years based on their academic performance in the previous year. The eligible streams are civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and metallurgical engineering.

Post-Matric Scholarships for Students belonging to the Minority Communities

The post-matric scholarship scheme is for meritorious students belonging to economically weaker sections of minority communities. It provides them with better opportunities for higher education. 

Scholarship of ONGC Ltd., Dehradun

This scholarship is awarded to the toppers from the electrical and mechanical engineering courses after the 6th semester.