The Young India Fellowship (YIF), is a highly selective one-year residential multi-disciplinary post graduate programme which provides Liberal arts education with a focus on experiential learning. Indians under the age of 29 with an undergraduate or a postgraduate degree in any subject are eligible to apply for the fellowship. The YIF was launched in 2011 by the International Foundation for Research and Education (IFRE)- a not-for-profit (Section 25) company, in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Penn). YIF graduation certificates are co-signed by the YIF and Penn Engineering Deans. YIF's academic partners now also include Carleton College, Sciences Po, King's College, London, University of Michigan, University of California, Berkeley and Trinity College, Dublin. The Young India Fellowship aims to develop change agents for India through a multi-disciplinary programme.[1] It aims to improve the standard of higher education in India and allow for a more expansive and engaging learning module than is currently available in the country. Fellows take classes in subject areas ranging from anthropology to ethics, life sciences to climate change, art appreciation to entrepreneurship and are provided mentors from a pool of corporate, civil and academic leaders in the country.
YIF is the precursor to the newly established Ashoka University, located in the Rajiv Gandhi Education City near Delhi, India. Ashoka University is a philanthropic initiative founded by eminent scholars and visionaries to provide a liberal education on par with the best universities around the world. It offers a liberal education, nurturing core 21st century skills of critical thinking, communication and leadership, also promoting interdisciplinary education and advanced research in the humanities, social sciences, and the natural and applied sciences. Starting from 2014, YIF became the flagship programme of the Ashoka University and offers a Post-Graduate Diploma in Liberal Studies & Leadership to the Fellows after graduation. Fellows also have the option to convert this diploma into a research-based master's degree called a Master in Liberal Studies.
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