HIMT Chennai: Courses, Fees, Admission 2025, Placements, Scholarships, Reviews

HIMT Chennai offers nearly 8 types of scholarships to make education accessible to students from all economic strata. Some of the Hindustan Institute of Maritime Training scholarships are explained briefly below:

• Merit-Cum-Means based Scholarship in the memory of Late Smt Madhurika Suresh Vakil: These scholarships are awarded to meritorious students of various courses based on their outstanding academic performance.

Note: The scholarship amount will be subject to remittance after the completion of the first semester. Any Candidate who has opted for one of the scholarships will not be eligible for any other scholarship.

• Scholarship for the Indian Armed Forces: The Institute offers a 50% waiver on tuition fees to students whose parents have been martyred while in the service of Indian Armed Forces (Army/ Navy/ Airforce).

• Best Performance Merit Scholarships: The scholarship, titled the 'HIMT Award of Excellence,' will be presented to one student with the best overall performance across all courses.

  Rank 1: INR 5,000
  Rank 2: INR 3,000

• Female Candidate Scholarship: A waiver of INR 25,000 on the tuition fee is available for all female candidates enrolling in the HIMT pre-sea courses. Female Candidates can avail of an additional INR 1,00,000 discount from Maritime Training Trust (MTT), subject to their approval.
• Sports Scholarship: Students who have won a national-level prize would be offered a one-time scholarship of INR 10,000 in the course fees. Similarly, if any student has won a State-level prize will be offered a one-time scholarship of INR 5,000 in the course fees at the time of joining the course, or in the year in which they win the National or State-level prize.
• Life Long Scholarship: Seafarers need to regularly complete various modular courses, simulator-based courses, and revalidation courses every five years. To support this, HIMT offers loyalty discounts to candidates. The discount amount ranges from INR 500 to INR 3000 per course, depending on the number of courses completed at HIMT.
• Post-sea Course Fee Scholarship: All Pre-Sea Candidates of HIMT, after graduation, can avail the following alumni discounts, over and above the loyalty discount of upto 3,000. All D.G. Shipping Approved Courses (Apart from Refresher Courses) get a 5% discount on course fees paid.