Young India Fellowship 2024-25
Round 2 Admissions Are Now Open
Over 10 years of pioneering
multidisciplinary education
The Young India Fellowship (YIF) is Ashoka University’s flagship programme. Offered as a year-long residential postgraduate diploma in Liberal Studies. It attracts the finest academicians, practitioners and experts in the field to the classroom, and gives them the autonomy to innovate, create and craft curricula.
The YIF Alumni have pursued and excelled in a diverse set of career paths. From completing education across disciplines and securing prestigious scholarships, to starting organisations and working with leading private sector organisations across the world.
No matter what your goal it is very likely that you will find a YIF alum pursuing a similar trajectory. Learn more...
16+
Countries
60+
Entrepreneurial ventures
300+
Higher Education Admits
14+
Civil Servants/
National Award Winners
80+
Rhodes, Fulbright, Schwarzman, Gates,
Acumen, Chevening, Knight Hennessey Scholars among others
Wherever you choose to go,
you will find a Fellow...
The YIF prepares you
for diverse outcomes
Whatever you choose to do you’ll find a Fellow...
BTech. Mechanical Engineering, Maharashtra Institute of Technology
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Young India Fellowship '13
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Co-Founder, Sanjhi Sikhiya
Top 5 Social Innovators by Schwab Foundation
BA (Hons) Economics, St. Stephen’s College
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Young India Fellowship '13
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Portfolio Lead, Cipla
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MBA, Harvard Business School
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Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company
Medical graduate, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
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Young India Fellowship '17
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MA Philosophy, Simon Fraser University
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Doctoral student of Medical Anthropology, Stanford University
Our alumni work here
Learn from
renowned academics
Dwight Jaggard
Professor Emeritus, University
of Pennsylvania and Former Chair,
Penn Faculty Senate and Fellow IEEE and OSA
Kenwyn Smith
Professor of Organizational Behavior and the Ex-Director of Penn’s Master’s Programme in Nonprofit/NGO Leadership
Madhavi Menon
Professor of English, Director, Centre for Studies in Gender & Sexuality, Ashoka University; Ph.D. Tufts University; Former Faculty, Ithaca College and American University
Learn from public intellectuals
and industry leaders
Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Renowned Historian, Chancellor and Professor of History, Ashoka University; DPhil, University of Oxford
Urvashi Butalia
Padma Shri, Author, Publisher and Founder, Zubaan Books
Arun Kumar Singh
Former Indian Ambassador to the US, Israel and France and non-resident senior fellow, Asia Programme, German Marshall Fund
A Multidisciplinary and
Multidimensional Curriculum
20 Diverse Courses
Critical Writing
Experiential Learning Module
Mentorship
Alumni-in-residence
Crossover Series
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