Financial Aid

Financial aid/ Scholarship – “POLICIES & GUIDELINES”

• The minimum eligibility for applying and to maintain financial aid, the undergraduate students must maintain a minimum CGPA of 2.75 and graduate students 3.25.
• Undergraduate recipients of 50% and 75% tuition waiver will have to maintain a CGPA of 3.00 to continue tuition waiver.
• Undergraduate students must complete minimum 9 credits without non-credit course and Graduate students 6 credits to apply for financial assistance.
• An undergraduate financial aid recipient must register for at least 24 (Twenty four) credits and graduate students 18 credits in a year (3 consecutive semesters) with effect from the semester of his/her receiving financial assistance.
• If the waiver recipients withdraw any course or duly drop a semester, whatever may be the case, s/he would not get any benefit beyond the approved period for financial aid. That is, financial waiver would strictly be limited to 12 (twelve) semesters for students of all undergraduate programs except Bachelor in Pharmacy and Bachelor of Architecture, which is of 8 (eight) semesters and 16 (sixteen) semesters program respectively; For graduate program of MBA, this duration is 6 (six)semester, MS-ECO, MS in CSC/CSE/ETE/EEE/CEG, MDS, MREM/ M.PHARM. EMBA, MPH/EMPH, MA in English, MBT, MSEM is limited to 5 (five) semesters, with effect from the semester of his/her first admission. The financial aid would automatically be discontinued after this time–bar.
• Financial aid will discontinue with immediate effect if recipients are delinquent in any way or if his/her CGPA is less than the requirement or on completion of required credits for degree. Also, the aid shall automatically discontinue for unauthorized absence in any semester by the student. In any case, revival of such assistance might be considered on receipt of fresh application from the student in due course. In case of Semester drop, the student must apply to the Registrar through the respective department Chair/Head. They should also submit a copy of the said application to FAO for information.
• Financial aid would not be extended to ‘Retake’ any course i.e. if a student retakes any course, he would pay full tuition fee for that particular subject.
• 100% waiver is applicable for tuition fees only. The other fees i.e. Admission Fee, Student Activity fee, Lab fee etc. will be borne by the recipients other than WoFF. The minimum requirement of CGPA for maintaining 100% tuition waiver would be 3.25. Failure to maintain such CGPA requirement would result a reduced waiver of 50%. The waiver would be discontinued automatically, if the CGPA goes below 3.00 (Applicable for general recipients of tuition waiver).   
• Applicants should apply in prescribed form along with necessary papers/documents as applicable on time.

• Undergraduate and graduate recipients who are wards of freedom fighter must register for at least 27 credits in a year (3 consecutive semesters) with effect from the semester of his/her receiving financial assistance else their waiver facility would be seized. Also, they must maintain a CGPA of 2.75 at Undergraduate and CGPA 3.00 at Graduate level studies.

• Financial assistance shall not be extended to courses that are extra to the degree requirement i.e. no tuition waiver is applicable beyond the approved credits for degree.

• Financial assistance may be extended for courses that are not part of the degree but pre-requisites for courses required for a degree i.e. ENG-102, MAT-112 and
  MAT-116.
• Financial assistance shall be discontinued as soon as the recipient fulfills the credit requirements for degree under the different programs run by HU.

• The student (General applicants) must complete registration before they apply for financial aid. FAO will not be liable for their late registration.