Popular Scholarship Apps for Indian Students

by Ravi K. Digital Marketer

Growing Technology is a boon for everyone and school students are no exception. Advancements and developments in technology have made life easier and seamless. Academics to scholarships, everything in the education sector has grown magnanimously and can be availed digitally. Gone are the days when the parents ran from pillar to post to get forms for their wards for school admission or to apply for scholarships. The battle to get admission or earn a scholarship is still on but technology has definitely made the process hassle-free.

Digitization of the education sector had gained momentum but COVID – 19 imposed lockdown moved digitization at breakneck speed. Muck alike western countries, online education has picked up a pace in India too. Online scholarships have become a common concept for Indian students as most of the institutions have created an online interface for the convenience of students. Several scholarship apps have made their way into the online domain in the past few years. There are different separate scholarship apps available for school students or college students.

The scholarship apps can be mainly classified into two categories. While one of them is apps that act as a one-stop station to search for suitable scholarships and the other one refers to the apps of scholarship providers.

Here are few popular search apps that school students in India commonly use for finding a suitable scholarship for themselves. Take a look at some of such apps and their features:

1. Umang App – Unified Mobile Application for New-Age Governance (UMANG) App is a popular scholarship app amongst Indian school students. The students can apply for a government-aided scholarship through this scholarship searching app. Students simply type National Scholarship Portal in the search bar of this app and get access to the different types of scholarships being offered by the central government and state education departments.

2. Buddy4Study – Almost a decade old portal, Buddy4Study is a one-stop solution for finding the best-suited scholarships for many Indian students who vouch about the services of this app. This scholarship app works as a bridge between scholarship seekers and scholarship providers. It helps the Indian school students find the right scholarships through online medium. With a robust database, this scholarship app is an ideal way to help deserving students get scholarships, grants, or funds to support education. The sole vision of Buddy4Study is to make education accessible to all and to ensure that no student should lack behind in pursuing education due to a lack of monetary aids.

3. Scholly – One of the most used scholarship search apps, Scholly is designed to make searching for scholarships easy for the users. This online search app has benefitted millions of students from across the globe who need financial ads to complete their education or to pursue a career of their choice. The app searches of online scholarships, monthly scholarships, micro scholarships, and every other scholarship available in its database to suggest the most suitable one to the user. Scholly has different scholarships by governments, philanthropists, reputed organizations, and institutions who believe in extending financial support to the needy and deserving students.

Besides these scholarship search portal apps, here are some of the most popular online scholarships amongst Indian school students include:

1. National Talent Search Exam (NTSE) –

The National Council of Education Research and Training offers scholarships for Indian school students. Students of class 10th are eligible for this scholarship to promote higher studies amongst them. It is generally seen that many students drop out of their school post class 10th. Several factors are affecting this decision of the students. One of the main reasons is the lack of finances. The NTSE scholarship exams are conducted at two different levels – state level and national levels.

2. Auro Micro Scholarships Programme –

Not many Scholarships in India offer monthly scholarships for school students, but the Micro Scholarships Programme by Sri Aurobindo Society does. Students of class 6-12 get a maximum of INR 1000 per month by successfully attempting multiple quizzes. This is the world’s first micro scholarship programme meant for school students that promote incentivized learning amongst the students.

The Micro Scholarship amount that gets deposited into the student’s mobile wallet acts as a learning nudge for the students. The Micro scholarship is unique in its concept as it creates a win-win situation for students, parents, and students. While the students earn knowledge and the scholarship amount, the parents also benefit they can use the scholarship amount to pay for their wards’ tuition fees or any other educational expense purpose. One may wonder about the benefits of the teachers. This scholarship has a feature that provides an analytical report of the students’ performance to the teacher and the latter can use the same to improve students’ performance in the class.

3. National Means Cum Merit Scholarship

Department of School Education and Literacy offers this scholarship for the students of Class 9. Only those applicants who have secured at least 55% marks or equivalent grade in the Class 8 examination are eligible for this scholarship. A test is conducted by the department and based on these students are selected. This means-cum-merit scholarship can be availed by the students of the families whose annual income is lesser than INR 1.50 lakhs.