IISER Kolkata Scholarship 2025: Amount, Eligibility, Selection Criteria

KVPY rankers and students with under 10,000 JEE Advanced ranks, as well as those in the top 1 percentile of their boards, receive an annual scholarship of Rs. 60,000. The central government provides scholarships such as INSPIRE, KVPY, and NSP, but the college itself does not offer scholarships. General category and OBC students have fees around Rs. 50,000 per semester, while SC/ST students have waived tuition fees, resulting in total fees of about Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 20,000 per semester.

Over five years, total costs for general category students are approximately Rs. 6 lakh, while SC/ST students pay about Rs. 1 lakh. The INSPIRE scholarship provides eligible students a stipend of Rs. 5,000 per month and Rs. 20,000 annually for internships. KVPY scholars receive Rs. 7,000 per month during the 4th and 5th years. Scholarships can be supplemented by state-specific, private, and national-level scholarships, and loans are available for additional financial support.

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Donthina Jagadish

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BS + MS, Biological Sciences

Reviewed on Nov 5, 2025(Enrolled 2025)

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BS-MS(fee for total autumn semester 2025) admission:1000 alumini fee:1000 medical examination fee:400 medical insurance coverage fee:1500 semester registration:200 tution fee:48901 student welfare and recreation fee:650 lab and computer facilities;500 examination fee and grade card:350 hostel seat rent:1500 Electricity and water charges:550 Mess establishment charges:7000 laboratory:500 library:500 hostel:1000 Mess:3000 convocation cum degree fee:1000 GRAND TOTAL:67551 imp pts *100% tution fee waiver for sc/st/pd community *likely to change every year *food charges is not included in the mess establishment charges

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Review Ninja

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Reviewed on Dec 10, 2024(Enrolled 2024)

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The fees is Semester-wise 68000 rs for 1st sem and 60000 rs for 2nd sem for Caregories like General, EWS, OBC. Per year the total fees expense will be around 135000 rs including hostel. For SC and ST category the Semester fees is around rs 18000 ( ig it is 17500 rs per semester). Their total per year well be around 40000rs. Mess not included in both cases. Scholarships which is provided is INSPIRE scholar which college authorities will take into their hands will submit form and everything. Student can apply for thier state scholarship or any government scholarship by themself and can approve it from acadamic office. You can also apply for any private scholarship you want.

College Ninja

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BS + MS, Chemistry

Reviewed on Dec 8, 2024(Enrolled 2024)

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Total estimated fee (GEN/OBC/EWS/KM)- 4,76,000 SC/ST available 100% scholarship on tution fee. Total estimated fee (SC/ST/PD)- 1,08,000 Tution fee varies a bit each semester - 37,000(roughly) Registration fees - 200 (per sem) At the time of freezing your seat you have to pay 37,000 (as of 2024) Hostel charges - 2000 (per semester) Mess establishment charges - 5200 (I think it's one time payment) Lab, computer, and other facilities calculates roughly around 4000 (per sem)

Anonymous

BS - MS

Reviewed on Oct 8, 2024(Enrolled 2024)

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The respective charges for 1st semester are: i) Admission fees(Registration fees, alumni, medical examination and insurance) = 3700 ii) Semester fees = 46155 (Tuition fees for general: Rs44,455 and 0 for SC/ST/PD Lab fees : 500) iii) Hostel Fees(Seat rent, Electricity and drinking water supply) = 8550 iv) Caution Deposit = 3000 v) Thesis and convocation fee = 1000 This all counts to Rs 62,405 for first sem. As per their shared data the approx fees for one semester is Rs56,205. which adds up to 10 sems with medical charges and equals the total fees for five years i.e Rs 5,75,750. I'll be getting the INSPIRE scholarship and others might get other scholarships. The topper for first two sems are awarded with C.N.Rao award along with some cash prizes.

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M.Sc, Physics

Reviewed on Sep 18, 2024(Enrolled 2024)

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The total fees I am paying per semester is 62,405. Including tution fee 44455, Hostel Charges 8550. For SC, ST total fees is 17,950. Financial aid available for students are Scholarships from the institution after clearing the national level exams JEST JAM CSIR-NET.

Firoz alam

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BS + MS, Physical Science

Reviewed on Sep 17, 2024(Enrolled 2019)

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Overall Semester fee per semester( per 6 months) for BS-MS course is approx 43000 to 44000 which includes 7500 for mess establishment charge and hostel and wifi charges. Uf we talk about only tution fee , it is 33000. For sc-st , tution fee is waived. They only have to pay other charges excluding tution fee that is approx 9000 to 10000. If you are qualified kvpy then you get inspire scholarship which is 70000 per year approx. Othan this , if you belong to poor family being obc and general, yes there are funds available for their easiness but you have to ask for it in the academic section. I got admission in 2019 that time per semester fee was 41000 now, in 2024 it is 44000 per semester, now you can easily calculate how much it is increasing per year.

Gargi Patil

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Reviewed on Sep 17, 2024(Enrolled 2022)

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We pay 1 lakh per annum for everything including hostels, lab fees, library charges etc. Only daily food charges are not covered. For general, OBC and EWS categories the fee is the same. But for SC/ST the fee is around 46k per annum. INSPIRE scholarship is allocated to students here, worth around 70k per year if you're in the top students of your board after 12th STD.

Mahaprasad Mishra

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Reviewed on Sep 17, 2024(Enrolled 2024)

IISER Kolkata and why it's one of the best for research

the per semester fees is around 50-60k, so that makes it 110-120k per year. my roommate of ST cat paid around 17k for the semester. The hostel fees is around 20k but i am not sure as it's included in the semester fees

Aditya Jha

4.3

Reviewed on Sep 17, 2024(Enrolled 2023)

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Total as a sum of all fee per semester is 52164. Fee is increasing in all semester. If you belong to sc/st category the you get 100% tuition fee free. Inspire and other scholarship are available. Reservation according to central government norms.

Anshika

Life at iiser k

The total annual fees of the college is 94,000 from which you have to pay nearly 64,000 in the first semester. This fees includes admission fees , lab fees , mess management, medical fees, hostel charges etc. For sc/st the tution fees is none so there total annual fee come close to 30,000 something which is a really affordable amount.