Funding path · India → your destination
Stack scholarships, loans, and family funds against your year-one need. Count only written awards. Remit only on official school instructions—not consultancy fog.
Proven funds
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Year-one need
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Set below or open costs
Gap
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Build your year-one funding stack
Add every source with a rupee/dollar amount. Only tick “proven” when you have a letter, sanction, or bank document.
Sequence deposit → I-20 → SEVIS → visa fee
Don’t pay SEVIS before you have the correct I-20. Use FMJfee only—never an agent’s “special link.”
Planned total $0 · proven $0. Tick proven only with documents.
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Scholarships, fee waivers, and assistantships count for planning only after you have a written award. Verbal “you will get aid” from a consultancy does not fund an I-20.
Start on each shortlist school’s graduate funding page and the department site for TA/GA/RA notes. Deadlines often sit before the general application deadline.
Assistantships are competitive and department-specific. Ask only after you know the lab or course area, and never pay anyone to “arrange” a TA.
If you need a loan, compare public-sector and private lenders on collateral, margin money, disbursement to the university, and forex charges. Start after you have admits—not before shortlisting.
Plan who pays the SEVIS fee, visa fee, deposit, and first tuition installment. Use bank/forex channels that give remittance proof—not informal cash chains.
Complete the school health portal and any mandatory insurance before registration holds block classes. India travel insurance often fails U.S. waiver rules.
Next money moves
Pair this stack with remittance instructions and the loans playbook when you borrow from India.
Saved on this device. Not visa advice or a loan offer—confirm every figure with school, lender, and official immigration guidance.