IIFT Kolkata Scholarships 2026: Eligibility and Benefits

IIFT Kolkata provides students with various scholarship schemes, including a Need-Based Scholarship for interest subsidy on educational loans and a New Scholarship Scheme for 20% tuition fee waiver. The institute also facilitates access to government scholarships like the Central Sector Scholarship for SC/ST students, scholarships for disabled students and Merit-cum-Means based scholarships.

Candidates interested in learning about IIFT Kolkata scholarships can check out the article below.

IIFT Kolkata Scholarship List 2026

IIFT Kolkata offers a Need-Based Scholarship Scheme and a new scholarship scheme to serve candidates based on merit and need. Given below are IIFT Kolkata scholarships.

Need Based Scholarship

• IIFT Kolkata Need-Based Scholarship Scheme.
• The scholarships provide an interest subsidy on educational loans for 27 months.
• The scholarship is applicable to MBA(IB) full-time program students with a family income under INR 6.00 lakh per year.
• The annual loan amount is revised based on fees and expenses.
• The scholarship does not apply to students enrolled from AY 2023 onwards.

New Scholarship Scheme

• IIFT Kolkata is launching a new scholarship scheme, covering 10% of students with 20% tuition fees in all Full-Time/Regular batches of courses such as MBA (International Business), MBA (Business Analytics), A. (Economics), and IPM Programs.
• The criteria will be based on a "means-cum-merit" approach, with 70% weighting given to means and 30% to merit, i.e., total CGPA scores post-program completion.
• Students with family income below INR 8 LPA are eligible for the scholarship scheme.
• The scholarship will be awarded after the course
• Eligible students with equivalent scholarship amount from other sources are not eligible, and if the scholarship amount is less, the balance amount will be payable.
• If the number of eligible students exceeds the number of scholarships in a particular batch, students with higher scores will be awarded the scholarship.
• Given below is a tabular representation of the new scholarship scheme based on the amount and scores of the applicants.

IIFT Kolkata Scholarship Offered by Central Government

The Indian government provides various central and state-level scholarships to students, with details and application processes available on the National Scholarship Portal. Currently, Full-Time IIFT students can access these central scholarships through the portal.

Given below is a detailed tabular representation list of scholarships offered by the Central Government.

IIFT Kolkata Scholarships offered by other organizations

Given below is a tabular representation of scholarships offered by other organizations at IIFT.

IIFT Kolkata Scholarships: How to apply?

Below is IIFT Kolkata scholarship step by step application guide.

• Step 1: Applicants are required to visit the official scholarship portal.
• Step 2: Register and make a profile.
• Step 3: Upload the documents.
• Step 4: The scholarship committee will go through the application forms.
• Step 5: Once shortlisted, applicants will receive a scholarship confirmation email.

Documents Required

• Marksheets
• Aadhar Card
• PAN Card
• Income proof
• Bank Details: Account holder's name, bank name, branch name and address, account number, and IFSC code.
• Passport size photographs
• Signatures