How to be a Fellow
The Fellowship is a rewarding, life-changing experience. Here's everything you need to know.
“I was fortunate to have experienced an excellent education which enabled me to improve my life. I want to make sure all Students get the same experience as me.”
Nandini Kochar
TFI Fellow 2021
You are eligible to apply for the 2025 Fellowship cohort if you:
Completed graduation by June/July 2025
Are applying for the first time for the 2025 Fellowship cohort, since July 2024.
Are a citizen of India or Overseas Citizen of India(OCI).
Do You Need Prior Teaching Experience?
No, don't worry. We will provide the essential training needed to set you up for success in your classroom.
Got Another Question?
The Fellowship Selection Process
The Fellow selection process has 3 stages. It is designed to understand your strengths and motivations for this role. If you can make it through all the stages, you are on your way towards a life-changing experience.
STAGE I
Application Form
STAGE II
Phone Interview
STAGE III
Assessment Centre
1. Application Form
Introduce yourself by sharing your academic and professional history, as well as your interests, experiences, and motivations for joining the Fellowship. As Fellows teach in English, an online English Assessment evaluates your proficiency in the language as part of the online application.
2. Phone Interview
For some applicants, we want to know more and we do so through a 30-minute phone interview.
3. Assessment Centre
The final stage of selection! Here you'll engage with Teach For India and other applicants through activities including sample teaching, critical thinking, a group activity and an interview.
Placement Cities
Teach For India's 9 placement cities are working towards educational equity in a unique way, offering a singular personal and professional experience.
You may choose to indicate a placement preference during your selection process. While we cannot guarantee this, we try to match your preference to the needs of our schools and cities.
Ahmedabad
.png){kind=small}
Ahmedabad offers a close-knit community experience, a strong ecosystem of support, and an opportunity to follow Gandhi’s legacy of service. We aspire to create proof points of excellence for and with students.
Bengaluru
Bengaluru hosts our largest pool of Alumni who work to bridge the gaps between the “two Bengalurus” that exist: the lack of opportunities the city’s disadvantaged children face and the bustling hub of high-tech possibilities. We hope to create strong, deep outcomes for children in under-resourced schools and after-school centres and drive systemic reform by working with the region's Government bodies.
Chennai
Chennai works to generate greater momentum around quality education by building strong proof points of excellence — in our classrooms through the Fellowship and beyond our classrooms through our Alumni network and partners. We focus on early childhood education, social entrepreneurship and working in partnership with the Government.
Delhi
Delhi, our largest site, works towards reimagining cradle-to-career support for every child, every day. We do so by building advocates and ambassadors who work across the grassroots as social entrepreneurs and at the policy level with the government to not only create proof points of transformation but also scale and spread them to all of Delhi’s students.
Hyderabad
Hyderabad is a melting pot of diversity. We work to build collective leadership, create strong institutional proof points of excellence in schools and drive systemic reform through Alumni entrepreneurs and Alumni working in the Government.
Kolkata
Kolkata, our newest site, has established itself as our first site in the East. Fellows have the opportunity to bring a reimagined education into the schools that we serve.
Mumbai
Mumbai, the city of dreams, aims to create transformational schools that are surrounded by strong ecosystems of support to meet student needs. These schools will serve as proof points of excellence to spark wider systemic change.
Pune
Pune, a bustling university city, tackles the city’s low number of secondary schools, a low education budget, high dropout rates in English medium schools and no teacher recruitment. We aim to create transformational schools, community centres, and more organisations that partner with children to provide holistic education to Pune’s children.
After the Fellowship
Various paths have opened up for our Alumni. They get into some of the best institutes in the world, and many become entrepreneurs, founders and holders of senior positions in the corporate world, government and academia.
.png)
.png)
.png)
Compensation and Benefits
The Teach For India Fellowship will provide you with a host of benefits:
A challenging workplace in which your journey for excellence and leadership development is tracked and supported.
A work environment where you are supported through the intense experience of the Fellowship.
The opportunity to be part of one of the most acclaimed and visionary movements in India’s education sector.
Access to a robust network of connections and resources from the global Teach For All platform that spans over 60 countries across six continents.
Leaves, holidays, and medical insurance.
Monthly Stipend*
*net amount post tax
to ₹10,000
Monthly Compensatory Allowance
(Amount depends on the placement city)
Ready to apply?
Start here.png)
