FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE (AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS)

The Institute offers ‘NICMAR Top Ranker’s Scholarship’, ‘NICMAR Excalibur

Award Scholarship’ and ‘NICMAR Merit Scholarship’ to its students. Also,
Jameel Education Foundation (JEF), Saudi Arabia is offering full tuition fee for
two selected students from the minority community at the Institute.
Students will be eligible for only one award/scholarship for a particular
academic term.
Companies that accept students for summer internship generally offer
allowances/stipends during the training period.
NICMAR Top Ranker’s Scholarship
NICMAR announces ‘Top Ranker’s Scholarship’ for the full time post graduate
programmes in 2022. This scholarship is available for students willing to
pursue any of NICMAR’s full time post graduate programmes. The criteria of
Top Ranker’s Scholarship for the applicants are as follows:
Marks Scholarship
Criteria
10 th th
12 / Diploma Graduation Amount
1 95 % 95 % 95 % 80 % of Tuition Fee
2 90 % 90 % 90 % 60 % of Tuition Fee
3 85 % 85% 85 % 40 % of Tuition Fee
4 80 % 80 % 80 % 20 % of Tuition Fee

Applicants can request for NICMAR Top Ranker’s Scholarship according to

their marks in class 10th, 12th/Diploma and Graduation at the time of filling
application form for the admission 2022. Eligible candidates will get
confirmation for the same after verifying their academic records with mark
sheets submitted. Eligible applicants need to go through the admission
process [NICMAR Common Admission Test (NCAT), Group Discussion (GD)
and Personal Interview (PI)]. Selection of candidates is done on the basis of
merit. The merit list is drawn on the basis of performance in NCAT, GD, PI,
and Rating of Application (RA). Admission offer letters are issued in the order
of merit. The RA is calculated on the basis of weighted scores of the
cumulative academic performance along with work experience (as applicable)
obtained from the documents submitted to NICMAR by the candidates.
Selected candidates for the NICMAR Top Ranker’s Scholarship will get offer
letter for admission as per their eligibility.
This scholarship will not be offered to any student who postpones his/her
admission to NICMAR’s full time post graduate programmes for any reasons
whatsoever. Students with scholarship must comply with the following
requirements for continuance of scholarship in subsequent academic terms.
Breach of any of these conditions will disqualify the student for the same and
will make the student forfeit the scholarship. In such a case, the student will
have to pay the necessary fees for the next academic term. The scholarship
will be restored in subsequent term/s, depending on the fulfilment of the
conditions stated below:
i. The awardees' attendance in any course of study shall not be less than 80%.
ii. Awardees should pass the term in the first attempt.
iii. Term Performance Index (TPI) should be 8.5 or above.
iv. The awardees shall have no adverse comments/grading on record from the
disciplinary committee for any reason whatsoever.
v. No gaps/break in terms whatsoever during the entire programme are
permissible.
vi. The awardees shall maintain high standards of conduct and behaviour and
conform to the discipline of the Institute, as laid down in the ‘Code of Conduct’
of the Institute.
NICMAR Excalibur Award Scholarship
A special award is being offered by the Institute to stimulate excellence and
scholarship of the highest order amongst the student community of NICMAR.
The award is titled ‘Excalibur Award Scholarship’. It is awarded to the students
securing the highest rank amongst all students of ACM [Pune, Hyderabad
(Shamirpet), Goa (Farmagudi) and Delhi NCR (Bahadurgarh) campuses],
EPM [Pune and Hyderabad (Shamirpet)], REUIM and IFDM programmes. The
award is presented term-wise and it consists of waiver of full tuition fees and
hostel fees for the term in which the student has secured the highest rank.
Award will be given on the basis of Term Performance Index (TPI). In case of
a tie, the student having higher Cumulative Performance Index (CPI) will be
given the Excalibur award. In case there is a tie even on the CPI, the student
securing the highest number of ‘AA’ grade followed by the highest number of
‘AB’ grade will be given the award. If the tie still continues, the student getting
the highest marks in the concerned term end exam will be given the Excalibur
award.
NICMAR Merit Scholarship Scheme
These rules are framed to institute, operate and disburse scholarships to
students of full time two year post graduate programmes offered by NICMAR.

Duration : For all academic terms except summer internship.

Number of : 10% students of each post graduate programme of each

Scholarships campus, i.e. ACM, EPM, REUIM and IFDM programmes.
Criteria and Rules for Award of Scholarships
i. Scholarships will be awarded on the basis of the Term Performance
Index (TPI) of the concerned academic term.
ii. A merit list will be prepared based on the TPI, of top 10% students of all
the full time two year post graduate programmes of Pune, Hyderabad
(Shamirpet), Goa (Farmagudi) and Delhi NCR (Bahadurgarh) and
scholarships will be awarded as detailed in Table 1.
iii. In case of any tie amongst the candidates on the same TPI, merit will be
determined by Cumulative Performance Index (CPI). In case of a tie in
 CPI, the student securing the maximum number of grade ‘AA’ followed
by the maximum number of grade ‘AB’ will be given preference. After
that, if the tie continues, the scholarship amount will be split evenly
amongst the candidates concerned.
iv. Award of scholarship will be decided after the declaration of each term
end examination results.
v. The scholarship will be paid after the declaration of the same.
Table 1
Programme-wise Scholarships
Amount of
Numbers of
Scholarship/
Sr. Scholarships
Programme Campus Month
No.
Second First
Rs.
Year Year
Pune, Hyderabad (Shamirpet),
1 PGP ACM/EPM/REUIM/IFDM Goa (Farmagudi) and Delhi 1 1 10,000
NCR (Bahadurgarh)
Pune, Hyderabad (Shamirpet),
2 PGP ACM/EPM/REUIM/IFDM Goa (Farmagudi) and Delhi 1 1 9,000
NCR (Bahadurgarh)
Pune, Hyderabad (Shamirpet),
3 PGP ACM/EPM/REUIM/IFDM Goa (Farmagudi) and Delhi 1 1 8,000
NCR (Bahadurgarh)
Pune, Hyderabad (Shamirpet),
4 PGP ACM Goa (Farmagudi) and Delhi 2 2 7,000
NCR (Bahadurgarh)
Pune and Hyderabad
PGP EPM/REUIM/IFDM 1 1 7,000
(Shamirpet)
Pune, Hyderabad (Shamirpet),
5 PGP ACM Goa (Farmagudi) and Delhi 2 2 6,000
NCR (Bahadurgarh)
Pune and Hyderabad
PGP EPM/REUIM/IFDM 1 1 6,000
(Shamirpet)
Pune, Hyderabad (Shamirpet),
6 PGP ACM Goa (Farmagudi) and Delhi 2 2 5,000
NCR (Bahadurgarh)
Pune and Hyderabad
PGP EPM/REUIM/IFDM 1 1 5,000
(Shamirpet)
Pune, Hyderabad (Shamirpet),
7 PGP ACM Goa (Farmagudi) and Delhi 4 4 4,000
NCR (Bahadurgarh)
Pune and Hyderabad
PGP EPM/REUIM/IFDM 2 2 4,000
(Shamirpet)
Pune, Hyderabad (Shamirpet),
8 PGP ACM Goa (Farmagudi) and Delhi 4 4 3,000
NCR (Bahadurgarh)
Pune and Hyderabad
PGP EPM/REUIM/IFDM 2 2 3,000
(Shamirpet)
Total 24 24
Pune, Hyderabad (Shamirpet),
Remaining of 10% students
Goa (Farmagudi) and Delhi 2,750
PGP ACM/EPM/REUIM/IFDM
NCR (Bahadurgarh)
The awardees of the scholarship may be assigned academic work of such nature and duration as may be
decided by the Head of the programme concerned, keeping in mind the overall need to keep such assigned
work to a minimum level possible.
The merit holders for Excalibur Award Scholarship and Award of Merit
Scholarship should fulfil the following conditions. Breach of any one of
these conditions shall make them liable to be disqualified for the award
of scholarship.
i. The awardees’ attendance in any course of study shall not be less than
80%.
ii. The awardees shall have no adverse comments/grading on record from
the disciplinary committee for any reason whatsoever.
iii. Any act of indiscipline shall make the awardees liable to forfeiture of the
award.
iv. The decision of the PGP Executive Committee shall be final and binding
on all parties concerned, subject to the approval of Director General.
v. The awardees shall maintain high standards of conduct and behaviour
and conform to the discipline of the Institute, as laid down in the Code of
Conduct.
vi. The decision of the PGP Executive Committee regarding the
forfeiture/suspension of the award shall be final, subject to the approval
of Director General. In case of any grievances, the student may apply to
the Director General. Such cases will be finalised by the Academic
Council. No appeal will be allowed against the decision of the Academic
Council.
Jameel Education Foundation (JEF), Saudi Arabia: Offering full tuition
fee for two selected students from the minority community
NICMAR is glad to announce that Jameel Education Foundation (JEF), Saudi
Arabia is offering full tuition fee for two selected students, for the entire
duration of the full time two year Post Graduate Programme in Advanced
Construction Management (PGP ACM). The tuition fee is available for
students of minority community, admitted to the full time two year PGP ACM
programme. NICMAR will recommend top 4 students from the minority
community securing the highest rank in NICMAR’s admission process, out of
which two can be selected by JEF for the award of tuition fee. In the event two
suitable candidates are not found, JEF can select even one candidate for the
tuition fee. If the students offered the tuition fee, discontinue or postpone the
admission for any reasons whatsoever, the tuition fee will be terminated and
will not be offered to any other student.

AWARDS FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

i. NICMAR-Institute Gold Medal Award
NICMAR awards the 'Institute Gold Medal' to the student securing the
highest marks in a two year full time Post Graduate Programme with the
largest student enrolment.
ii. NICMAR-Institute Silver Medal Award
NICMAR awards the ‘Institute Silver Medal’ for securing the highest
marks amongst all graduating students of the Institute’s post graduate
programmes from ACM (all campuses), EPM [Pune and Hyderabad
 (Shamirpet) campuses], REUIM, IFDM, MFOCB, QSCM [Pune and
Hyderabad (Shamirpet)], HSEM [Hyderabad (Shamirpet)] and CLSCM
[Hyderabad (Shamirpet)].
iii. NICMAR-Maheshwar Ghansham S. Kakodkar Gold Medal Award
‘Maheshwar Ghansham S. Kakodkar Gold Medal’ instituted by
Pandurang Ghansham S. Kakodkar, at NICMAR campus, Mushtifund
Saunstha, Goa, for securing the highest marks amongst all graduating
students of post graduate programme in Advanced Construction
Management at NICMAR, Goa.