IIT Delhi Scholarships 2027: Eligibility, Amount & Criteria

IIT Delhi charges Rs 1,00,000 in tuition per semester, which is Rs 2,00,000 a year. IIT Delhi awards the MCM Scholarship to about 25% of General/OBC/EWS students of the admitted or sanctioned strength, subject to the applicable family-income criterion.

That is the arithmetic it is built on. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi runs four financial-aid routes for 2026. They are the Merit-cum-Means Scholarship, an automatic fee waiver for SC, ST and PwD students, the Institute Free Studentship, and donor-funded awards. It does not depend on a top JEE Advanced rank. Some donor-funded scholarships may use JEE rank as a criterion.

So who gets how much? A General, OBC-NCL or EWS student from a family earning up to Rs 8 lakh a year may qualify, subject to the available MCM allocation and applicable conditions. That is a full tuition waiver plus Rs 4,000 in cash every month. Every SC, ST and PwD student gets the tuition waiver, whatever the family earns. Extra support follows below Rs 8 lakh. Read the IIT Delhi fee structure first, so the figures below sit against what a family would otherwise pay.

Who should read this page closely? Any family earning at or below Rs 8 lakh a year. That one line decides more of the outcome here than the entrance rank does.

Data Sources: IIT Delhi Financial Assistance.

IIT Delhi runs four separate schemes, and each one solves a different family's problem. Mixing them up is the commonest mistake a first-time applicant makes.

The Merit-cum-Means (MCM) Scholarship is the one most General, OBC-NCL and EWS students actually get. It pays Rs 4,000 a month and waives the full tuition fee on top. It is awarded to about 25% of General/OBC/EWS students of the admitted or sanctioned strength, subject to the income criterion. Family income is, capped at Rs 8 lakh a year.

Now here is the arithmetic, shown in full. Tuition is Rs 1,00,000 a semester, so Rs 2,00,000 across the two semesters of one year. An MCM recipient pays none of that. Add Rs 4,000 in cash every month the scholarship runs. A qualifying family's real first-year benefit runs to more than Rs 2,00,000. That does not trim the published fee. It removes the tuition line completely and pays a monthly allowance besides.

IIT Delhi publishes the stipend as Rs 4,000 per month. It does not state how many months a year it pays. So it gives the monthly figure and stops there.

SC, ST and PwD students sit in a separate, wider scheme. Every SC, ST and PwD student gets a full tuition-fee exemption, whatever the family earns. SC and ST students earning under Rs 8 lakh get more. Free messing, plus Rs 1,000 a month as pocket allowance. Families often read that as one award. It is two benefits stacked on one profile.

The Institute Free Studentship is an overflow route, not a higher-income route. IIT Delhi states one condition for it. If more than 25% of students qualify for the MCM Scholarship, IIT Delhi waives tuition for a further 10%, on the basis of means alone. So it catches students who clear the income test but fall outside the MCM quota. A family earning above the MCM ceiling does not reach it.

IIT Delhi also manages donor-funded scholarships. Criteria vary award by award: family income, branch, gender, a JEE Advanced rank band, or academic performance once enrolled. The Academics Section matches most of them automatically, without a separate student application.

Data Sources: IIT Delhi Financial Assistance.

Eligibility splits cleanly by scheme. Find the row that matches the student's category first.

• MCM Scholarship: General, OBC-NCL or EWS category, with family income up to Rs 8 lakh a year. Keeping it after year one needs a minimum 6.0 SGPA and CGPA.
• SC / ST / PwD fee waiver: no income test. Category status alone qualifies the student for the full tuition exemption.
• SC / ST messing and pocket allowance: same categories, but only for family income under Rs 8 lakh a year. It also runs only for a fixed span tied to the programme length.
• Institute Free Studentship: means alone, with no category test, when more than 25% of students qualify for the MCM.
• Donor-funded awards: vary by scholarship. Branch, gender, JEE Advanced rank or the year-on-year academic record can each decide it.

Think of the family income certificate the way you think of a ration card. It is the single paper that decides what you pay, and an expired one stops the benefit.

For MCM and Free Messing, students declare parental income on ERP and submit the prescribed income documentation/forms. Donor and external scholarships may have their own application requirements.

Data Sources: IIT Delhi Financial Assistance.

IIT Delhi runs no written test and no interview for any of its scholarships. The Academics Section decides on records the institute already holds. Eligibility does not guarantee every award.

For the MCM, the section checks your uploaded income certificate against the Rs 8 lakh threshold. A student meeting the income and category conditions is considered for MCM within the institute's applicable allocation; award and renewal are subject to the scheme rules. The section repeats the check each year. For SC, ST and PwD students, the category status confirmed at admission triggers the tuition waiver. No further check follows. The same income screening decides the messing and pocket allowance.

Donor-funded scholarships work case by case. The section matches most of them automatically. A few ask the student to apply, when the criteria cannot be read off existing records.

There is one more thing to ask before you count on any of this. Ask the Academics Section which month the first stipend actually reaches the bank account. The fee deadline and the first disbursal do not always fall in the same month.

Data Sources: IIT Delhi Financial Assistance; IIT Delhi UG fee circular, AY 2026-27. IIT Delhi publishes no headcount of scholarship recipients and no rupee total disbursed for the current year. It states the proportion it does publish and stops there.