ICSSR’s Doctoral Fellowship Schemes 2026-2027

ICSSR’s Doctoral Fellowship Schemes 2026-2027

About ICSSR’s Doctoral Fellowship Schemes 2026-2027

Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)
Ministry of Education (MoE)

Applications are invited for the following ICSSR’s Doctoral Fellowship Schemes for the Financial Year 2025-26:

(i) Full-Term Doctoral Fellowship Scheme (Centrally Administered and Institutional)
(ii) Short-Term Doctoral Fellowship Scheme
(iii) Contingency Grant Scheme

The candidates shall submit an online application on the ICSSR website on the link https://app.icssr.org/ as per the following schedule:

Start of online application 22-09-2025
Last date of online application 21-10-2025

Applicants are required to read the guidelines carefully before submitting their online application forms. A scholar can apply for only one of the fellowship schemes in a Financial Year. Applicants are also advised to apply well before the last date in order to avoid last moment rush. The applications can be filled either in English or in Hindi (Arial/Mangal Unicode font will be used in Devanagari script to fill application form in Hindi). The links for detailed guidelines for applying along with requisite formats are provided on this web page.

The affiliating institutions and supervisors shall forward applications of only those candidates who fulfil the minimum eligibility criteria as per the norms defined in column 2.1 to 2.9 of the detailed guidelines of the ICSSR fellowship schemes after proper verification and certification of details from original documents. Incomplete applications/ applications without forwarding letter by affiliating institutions, where the candidates are registered under PhD programme, shall be summarily rejected.

The applicants seeking consideration under Institutional Doctoral Fellowship Scheme will apply through the ICSSR website in online mode and select the ICSSR Research Institute through which their application is routed in the online application form. The applications under this scheme must be forwarded by the respective ICSSR Research Institutes.

Guidelines – Doctoral Fellowships 2025-26

For more details please refer the Official Website

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