- More than ₹ 110 Cr scholarship fund already under disbursement process
- Zero-fee scholarship application open for 40,000+ students in the FY 2023-24
- Special weightage for girls, PwD, and transgender students
- Mentorship and career guidance program for selected scholars
New Delhi: Buddy4Study, India’s leading scholarship and mentorship platform committed to fostering education, is all set to facilitate more than ₹ 160 Cr of scholarship funds among close to 50,000 school and college students in the financial year 2023-24.
The ed-tech platform, in partnership with India’s leading corporates, NGOs and corporate foundations, identifies deserving students via the pool of online applications it receives from students across India. Currently, scholarship applications are open for various programmes and selection process is also underway on the platform with a total scholarship fund outlay of ₹ 120 Cr.
The scholarship application on the platform is completely free-of-cost for the students and the scholarship fund is directly disbursed into the bank account (via DBT) of the beneficiaries in majority of the scholarship programmes.
In FY 2022-23, the platform had disbursed a total scholarship funds of ₹ 110 Cr among 38,000+ students.
Speaking on the expanding horizon of the organisation, Ashutosh Burnwal, Founder & CEO, Buddy4Study says, “India’s unique strength lies in the power of its youth who can transform our country into a developed nation provided they are empowered with access to quality education. At Buddy4Study, we envision to make quality education accessible to all. In our 11th year of existence now, we are proud to have helped thousands of students in their education journey to achieve their dreams. We are now on a mission to support 10 million students with financial and mentorship support by 2030. Towards this mission, we are fortunate to have gotten support from our existing and new partners and funders to create more such opportunities to help students from schools and colleges across India.”
Buddy4Study has partnered with more than 150 funders including major corporates such as HDFC Bank, Loreal India, Schaeffler India, Alstom, Rolls-Royce, Mahindra and Mahindra Financial Services, Kotak Education Foundation, Aditya Birla Capital Foundation to provide financial assistance to students.
Buddy4Study is currently managing scholarship programmes catering to a diverse set of students across India. These scholarship and mentorship programmes include initiatives such as Kotak Kanya Scholarship 2023, Rolls-Royce Unnati Scholarship for Women Engineering Students 2023, Virchow Scholarship Program aimed at empowering girl students, Saksham Scholarship Program for Drivers’ Children aimed to help drivers’ children, and distinctive scholarships targeting specific academic streams, such as the Aspire Scholarship Program 2023-24. Another programme where special weightage is given to transgender students and differently-abled girl students is Legrand Empowering Scholarship Program.
Sharing the platform’s transparent approach, Neha Agarwal, Chief Strategy and Growth Officer, Buddy4Study, says “Buddy4Study’s technology-driven system ensures scholarships directly benefit the students. The transparent and efficient scholarship management process at Buddy4Study does not only make it easier for the students to apply for scholarship opportunities and avail benefits but also helps scholarship providers to monitor the progress with real time data through their live dashboard. It has built trust of our partners in our system and processes, leading them to entrust us with the management of multi-year scholarship programmes. Also, our outcome-oriented approach and mechanism to track the progress of our scholar beneficiaries bolsters the confidence of our partners in the impact we have helped them to create by the successful implementation of their programmes.
Building upon its exceptional track record of assisting more than 67,000 beneficiaries and skillfully managing funds exceeding ₹ 207 Cr to date, Buddy4Study is expanding its reach to a broader spectrum of students year after year, all while actively working to reduce educational disparities and cultivate inclusivity within the realm of education.
Opportunities for which applications are currently open on Buddy4Study.com (As on Aug 23, 2023):
| Sr No. | Name of Scholarship | Deadline | Link |
| 1 | Virchow Scholarship Program 2023 | August 31, 2023 | http://www.b4s.in/a/VISC3 |
| 2 | Legrand Empowering Scholarship Program 2023-24 | August 30, 2023 | http://www.b4s.in/a/LFLS7 |
| 3 | Rolls-Royce Unnati Scholarship for Women Engineering Students 2023 | August 31, 2023 | http://www.b4s.in/a/UNS5 |
| 5 | Aspire Scholarship Program 2023-24 | September 10, 2023 | http://www.b4s.in/a/ASPI1 |
| 6 | The Schaeffler India Social Innovator Fellowship Program 2023 | September 10, 2023 | http://www.b4s.in/a/em_SIA2 |
| 7 | Alstom India Scholarship 2023-24 | September 15, 2023 | http://www.b4s.in/a/AISDG4 |
| 8 | Raman Kant Munjal Scholarships 2023 | September 15, 2023 | http://www.b4s.in/a/RMKSP1 |
| 9 | Kotak Kanya Scholarship 2023 | September 30, 2023 | http://www.b4s.in/a/KKGS2 |
| 10 | Saksham Scholarship Program for Drivers’ Children 2023 | September 30, 2023 | http://www.b4s.in/a/SKSP5 |
| 11 | LIC HFL Vidyadhan Scholarship 2023 | September 30, 2023 | http://b4s.in/a/LHVC11 |
| 13 | HDFC Bank Parivartan’s ECSS Programme 2023-24 | September 30, 2023 | http://www.b4s.in/a/HDFC44 |
Programmes that have been completed and for which the selection process is ongoing:
- Kotak Junior Scholarship 2023-24
- Medhaavi Engineering Scholarship Program 2023-24
- CNH-ITC Mentorship Program 2023
- OakNorth STEM Scholarship Programme