Financial Aid and Scholarships
Axis Bank Scholarship
The Axis Bank Scholarship supports deserving students from diverse socio-economic, gender and geographical backgrounds pursuing full-time undergraduate programs at Plaksha University. By reducing financial barriers, the scholarship enables talented students to access transformative technology education and build careers that create meaningful impact.
Bharti Scholarship
Bharti Scholarship is a highly prestigious scholarship awarded to exceptional students from diverse socio-economic backgrounds to pursue full-time undergraduate studies at Plaksha University.
Crescent Scholarship
This scholarship is designed to create opportunities that endure. Backed by an endowment, it supports partial aid scholars, recognises Dean’s List recipients, and enables transformative experiences such as internships and conference participation. As the corpus grows, the annual returns continue to benefit new generations of students, ensuring the scholarship will carry Jai Rajpal’s name for 24 years, connecting every recipient with the generosity that made their journey possible.
Dr Nikunj Tijoriwala Scholarship
The scholarship supports women scholars across Plaksha’s engineering programs, from Data Science and AI to Robotics and Autonomous Systems. Recipients have gone on to found AI ventures, join global consulting firms, and secure engineering roles with notable compensation. This aid reflects a specific assessment: women in STEM are a diversity priority to be addressed at the margins of the technology sector. They represent a competitive imperative 'that India cannot afford to neglect'.
eClerx Future Leaders Scholarship
IndusInd Future Leaders Scholarship
The scholarship goes beyond financial assistance to provide mentorship, leadership development opportunities, entrepreneurial exposure, and access to a vibrant community of innovators and changemakers.
Jefferies Scholarship
The Jefferies Scholarship supports talented students in pursuing a transformative STEM education at Plaksha. Complemented by industry exposure, expert-led learning, technical training, and experiential opportunities, it enables scholars to develop practical skills, broaden their perspectives, and prepare for impactful careers across technology, finance, data, and analytics.
Metro Brands Scholarship
The Metro Excellence Scholarship has the motive to give deserving students, from underserved communities, full access to a world class technology education creating transformational experiences that shape their futures.
Rama and JD Gupta Scholarship
The scholarship funds students on full financial aid: those from the most constrained backgrounds for whom the scholarship is not a reduction in cost but the condition under which the journey is possible at all. The students this scholarship reaches are, consistently, among the most motivated on campus. The giving reflects a personal understanding of what it means to have access to education, and of what it means when that access is absent.
FAQ
Plaksha is committed to making quality education accessible to deserving students through a combination of need-based financial aid and merit-based scholarships. To date, close to ₹53 crore has been disbursed in financial aid and scholarships to BTech students and currently, 66.45% BTech students are on scholarship and financial aid.
The tuition fee for the BTech program (2026 intake) is ₹8.4 lakh per annum. Financial aid may vary from 25 percent to 100 percent on tuition. Salaried families with gross annual income below ₹50 lakh are considered for aid, and families with gross annual income up to ₹75 lakh can avail an interest-free loan on 25 percent of the tuition fee from Plaksha-approved loan providers.
Plaksha awards merit scholarships to recognize students with exceptional accomplishments in academics, extracurricular pursuits or co-curricular contributions. Meritorious students may receive tuition waivers ranging from 25 percent to 100 percent, based on high performance in board and competitive exams along with strong achievements outside the classroom. All admitted students are automatically considered for the first-year merit scholarship, and no separate application is required.
Yes. A 100% tuition waiver is possible at Plaksha University. Students who score between 95 percent and 100 percent in board exams and 95 to 100 percentiles in JEE are considered for a merit scholarship ranging from 25 percent to 100 percent.
*Conditions apply. The decision of the scholarship committee is binding.
Plaksha’s need-based financial aid is designed to support students who require assistance to meet the cost of education. The assessment begins with a comprehensive review of the applicant's family financial profile. This evaluation considers household income, family savings, assets, liabilities, and essential (non-discretionary) expenses. Financial aid is primarily awarded based on demonstrated need and may cover between 25% and 100% of tuition and living expenses.
Plaksha collaborates with several banks and financial institutions such as Propelld, Axis Bank, Credila Financial Services, ICICI Bank, and Avanse Financial Services to offer education loan options. These vary by provider: Axis Bank offers a collateral-free option and tax benefits under Section 80E, Credila covers upto 100 percent of the cost of education without requiring margin money, ICICI Bank offers tax benefits under Section 80E with repayment up to 10 years post moratorium, and Avanse offers loan tenures of up to 15 years. Students should contact the banks directly for current interest rates and loan conditions.