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    Scholarships for Engineering Students 2024 - How to Get 100% Scholarship in Engineering Colleges

    Scholarships for Engineering Students 2024 - How to Get 100% Scholarship in Engineering Colleges

    Team Careers360Updated on 04 Aug 2025, 07:01 PM IST

    How to get 100% scholarship in engineering colleges- Pursuing an engineering degree opens up a myriad of opportunities for the aspirants to gain exciting job prospects within or outside the country as well as to continue higher education, either in India or abroad. However, engineering is a very specialised course that might be beyond the financial reach of some aspirants. Hence, engineering colleges offer financial assistance to students in the form of scholarships to help ease the monetary load and allow meritorious and deserving students to pursue engineering. While universities have their criteria regarding scholarships for engineering students, the general prerequisites to offer a full scholarship include being a state topper or a topper in the entrance exams like IIT JEE 2024 or SRMJEEE 2024 or performing exceptionally well in the 12th standard exams i.e. securing a percentage above 80 to 90.

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    Scholarships for Engineering Students 2024 - How to Get 100% Scholarship in Engineering Colleges
    How to Get 100% Scholarship in Engineering Colleges

    Eligibility Criteria to Get 100% scholarship in Engineering Colleges

    While each university tends to have its own criteria for 100% scholarships for engineering students, the general criteria include the following

    • Maintain high academic records. This is proof that the candidate is serious about the scholarship they are receiving and will continue to deserve to receive the scholarship.

    • Gain top scores in the entrance tests as a lot of scholarships are based on the score or ranks gained by the candidates in their entrance tests

    • Candidates belonging to certain reservation categories are also eligible to get scholarships.

    • It is also advisable to participate in extracurricular activities during the course years, as many universities emphasize the students' overall development and not just their academic performances.

    How to get 100% scholarship in engineering colleges?

    Getting a 100% scholarship in engineering colleges is a very rare feat, however, with the right score and by meeting the eligibility criteria, the candidates can gain a 100% scholarship and make their 4 years of engineering degree a financially independent one. The following are some of the engineering universities that offer 100% placement to meritorious students.

    100% scholarship: Criteria and Ranks

    College

    Name of scholarship

    Criteria

    Ranks

    VIT Vellore and other campuses

    GV School Development Programme" (GVSDP)


    Toppers of Central/ State Board

    STARS

    Students from rural backgrounds, family income <1.5 LPA

    Top score in 12th

    SRM University Chennai and other campuses

    a) Founder’s Scholarship

    SRMJEEE

    SRMJEEE Rank 1-100

    IIT JEE (Mains)

    IIT JEE (Mains) Rank up to 2000

    State Toppers

    State and CBSE

    District Toppers

    within Tamil Nadu



    Tamil Nadu State Board, CBSE

    Early Bird

    Extremely Meritorious Students

    Sports

    State, National, and International

    Merit Scholarship

    SRMJEE Merit

    Scholarship

    SRMJEEE Rank 101-500

    Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore

    Amrita Chancellor scholarship

    >80% in Grade 12 / UG/ PG


    Thapar University - Thapar Institute of Engineering

    MERIT SCHOLARSHIPS-I

    Aggregate Marks* > 95% at 10+2 level


    Amity University, Noida

    On Admission Scholarship

    95% & above Aggregate in XII (CBSE/ISC Only)


    Scholarship based on JEE Score- 2024 and Class XII-2024

    97-100% in JEE


    Ahmedabad University

    Ahmedabad Fellowships

    Top rank in JEE, students outside of Gujarat


    Apart from the above-mentioned scholarships for engineering students, Candidates belonging to backward castes are eligible for scholarships given by the respective state governments. This information can be gathered by enquiring in the university offices about which scholarship is the candidate eligible for based on different factors.

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