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About the programme
NavGurukul is a non-profit founded in 2016 whose stated mission is to give students from marginalised communities access to aspirational careers. Its flagship offering is a residential programme: students live on campus, learn in a self-paced, peer-learning style, and take part in running the campus through elected student bodies. The Sarjapur campus in Karnataka is one of those residential centres, and its programming track is the course this article covers. It is distinct from the School of Business track that also runs at Sarjapur, which teaches business and digital-marketing skills instead of programming.
Older programme listings describe Sarjapur as one of the girls’ campuses, alongside Pune and Bangalore, with Dharamshala as the boys’ campus. The current official residential-programmes page does not label individual campuses by gender, so this article does not assert the Sarjapur campus’s present gender composition — check the official page or the application form before applying. What the current page does state is the scale of the operation: nine campuses with a combined capacity of around 1,100 students, and more than 1,500 students placed into jobs.
Benefits
- A fully funded residential course: the programme covers accommodation, meals and learning materials, so the student does not pay tuition or living costs while studying.
- Programming training aimed at employment, with English and personality-development training alongside the technical curriculum in the older programme descriptions.
- Placement assistance on completion: the organisation’s placement material reports 1,500+ students placed, at salaries reported between Rs 2.4 lakh and Rs 8.5 lakh a year, with 120+ hiring partners.
- A self-governed campus community: students manage campus responsibilities through a student council system, which the organisation presents as part of the learning itself.
One honest clarification: older programme material promises a guaranteed job, and one older description promises a minimum salary of Rs 20,000 a month. The current official material speaks of placement assistance and reports a salary range rather than a guarantee. Treat the outcome as strong placement support, not a contractual job guarantee.
Who can apply
- You are above 16 years of age. This is the age rule on the current official residential-programmes page, and it is the rule this article follows.
- You come from an underprivileged or low-income family and cannot afford expensive college education. The organisation’s mission pages describe its learners as students from marginalised communities.
- No prior education is required on the current official page: its students have included school and college dropouts, Class 10 and Class 12 pass students, and degree holders who could not get jobs.
- You can live residentially at the Sarjapur campus for the programme’s duration and take part in its self-governed community life. This is a full-time, on-campus commitment, not a remote or part-time course.
A note on the older criteria, because they still circulate widely. Older listings for this programme say it is open to students who have finished Class 10 and are 17 years of age, and older profiles put the family-income bar at below Rs 10,000 a month (one older profile says below Rs 8,000). Those figures come from earlier years of the programme. The current official page’s criteria — above 16, no prior education needed — are less restrictive, and this article follows the current page. If you are below 17 or have not finished Class 10, the current criteria still leave you eligible; confirm on the application form, since that form governs admission.
Admission process
Admissions happen on a rolling basis: the organisation’s placement material states that as soon as a student gets placed, a new student is enrolled. There is no published annual closing date. The admission experience described by a student account runs in rounds: an online application, followed by an algebra round, an English round, and a culture-fit round in which the applicant submits a short video introducing themselves and explaining why they want to join. The organisation’s school pages for the related tracks describe the same shape — a screening test, an academic interview and a culture-fit round — ending in an offer letter sent by email. Expect a test-and-interview process rather than a marks-based selection, and expect to be assessed on willingness to work hard and learn, which the older programme posters state explicitly.
Documents required
No document checklist for the Sarjapur programming programme is published on the official NavGurukul pages checked, so none is invented here. The admission process is test- and interview-based rather than document-based. Keep an identity proof, proof of your family-income situation and your previous education records (if any) ready, and follow whatever the application form asks for, since that form governs the application.
How to apply
- Read the official NavGurukul residential-programmes page in full, including the Sarjapur campus listing and the residential commitment, and decide honestly whether living on campus fits your life.
- Start the enrolment process through the official NavGurukul page and choose the School of Programming at Sarjapur.
- Complete the screening and interview rounds described above, including the culture-fit round.
- If you pass, you receive an offer letter confirming selection for the residential course, sent by email.
FAQs
No. It is a fully funded residential programme: stay, food and learning materials are covered, and you receive placement assistance. No cash award is paid to the student.
Not on the current official criteria, which require only age above 16 and no prior education. Older listings mention Class 10 and age 17; the current page is less restrictive and is the one this article follows.
No single deadline is published. Admissions are rolling, so check the official page for the next Sarjapur cohort.
Older programme listings describe Sarjapur as one of the girls’ campuses. The current official page does not label campuses by gender, so confirm the position on the application form before applying.
The School of Programming teaches software engineering; the School of Business teaches Google Suite, CRM and Salesforce, digital marketing and data analytics. Both are fully funded residential programmes at the same campus.
Older material promised a guaranteed job, but current official material reports placement assistance with 1,500+ students placed. Treat it as strong placement support, not a guarantee.
Verified 31 Oct 2026 against the NavGurukul placement deck (Sarjapur listed among residential campuses; rolling admissions as placed students leave; 9 campuses, around 1,100 capacity; 1,500+ placed at Rs 2.4–8.5 lakh a year), the Smart Village Movement programme page (Sarjapur as a girls’ campus in older listings; free one-year programme including food, hostel and travel; guaranteed-job wording in older material), a student admission-experience account (algebra, English and culture-fit rounds), and the official residential-programmes page criteria used in the previous batch (above 16, no prior education required, fully funded 1–2 years). Gender labelling and the older Class 10/age 17 criteria are flagged as older-versus-current differences, not hidden.
