Scholarships for IISc students

Kotak scholarship 

The Kotak Scholarship is awarded to the woman student with the highest JEE Advanced Rank joining the undergraduate BTech (Mathematics and Computing) programme at IISc. This scholarship covers the tuition fees and other fees for the entire programme. Sasmita Harini S received the award for the academic year 2022–23, and Shivey Ravi Guttal received the award for the academic year 2023–24.

Sasmita Harini S receiving the scholarship certificate from Prakash Apte (Chairman (Non-Executive, KMBL) on 18 January 2023.


Shivey Ravi Guttal receiving the scholarship certificate from Milind Nagnur (Chief Technology Officer, KMBL) on 23 August 2023.

PhD top-up scholarship

The KIAC PhD top-up scholarship is a 100% top-up fellowship from KIAC. This award is for registered PhD students of IISc who fulfil specific criteria.

Aditya Subramanian
(Department of Computer Science and Automation, IISc)

Shubhankar Gupta
(Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISc)

In the first round, the scholarship was awarded to Aditya Subramanian, a PhD student from the Department of Computer Science and Automation, and in the second round, Shubhankar Gupta, a PhD student from the Department of Aerospace Engineering received the scholarship.

Scholarships for  MTech and PhD students from the empowered category

The Empower programme was envisioned by KIAC to ’empower’ students from the categories women, economically weaker section, other backward class, scheduled caste, and scheduled tribe. A totalof 79students from the empowered category were given scholarships so far.