ELIGIBILITY

You are eligible to apply for the 2026 Fellowship cohort if you:
Completed graduation by June/July 2026
Are applying for the first time for the 2026 Fellowship cohort, since July 2025.
Are a citizen of India or Overseas Citizen of India(OCI).

THE SELECTION PROCESS

The Fellow selection process has 2 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
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.
STAGE II :  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

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.
Mumbai
Mumbai, the city of dreams, aims to create transformational schools that are surrounded by strong ecosystems of support, rooted in partnerships with our communities, to meet complex student needs. These schools serve as proof points of excellence to spark wider systemic change – led by a growing Alumni movement in the city.
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.
Kolkata
Kolkata, our youngest 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 and the communities that we partner with. From children’s film festivals, to city-wide child safety initiatives - our Kolkata site is redefining what holistic learning can look like.
Our 9th site, Gurgaon, launches May 2026!
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.
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.
Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad offers a close-knit community experience, a strong ecosystem of support, and an opportunity to follow Gandhi’s legacy of service. We enable exposure, access, and opportunities for our children to pursue transformed life paths, and we aspire to create proof points of excellence for and with our students.

AFTER THE FELLOWSHIP

Beyond the Fellowship, various paths have opened up for our Alumni. They get into some of the best institutes in the world, many become entrepreneurs and founders of their own social impact organisations, and several others go onto hold senior positions in the corporate world, in government, and in academia.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

The Teach For India Fellowship will provide you with a host of benefits:
1
A challenging workplace in which your journey for excellence and leadership development is tracked and supported.
2
A work environment where you are supported through the intense experience of the Fellowship.
3
The opportunity to be part of one of the most acclaimed and visionary movements in India’s education sector.
4
Access to a robust network of connections and resources from the global Teach For All platform that spans over 60 countries across six continents.
5
Leaves, holidays, and medical insurance.
Monthly Salary
Rs. 25,344
subject to increase based on the cost of livng
+
City Compensation Allowance
Rs. 6,000
to
Rs. 12,600
(depends on relocation & placement city)
+
monthly reimbursements of classroom expenses on a per-child cost basis.
5500+ Leaders have joined this movement to build a brave, new India. Are you ready for the challenge?
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