Program fees · GSP'27
The full number, out loud
Here is the full price, on the first screen, with GST already in it and nothing waiting behind it. GSP'27 early-bird rates hold until 31 Dec 2026.
Pay ₹40,000 to hold a seat. Change your mind until 28 February 2027 and all of it comes back. The refund terms
Grades 6–7 · 14 days · both editions
GW Explorers
Early-bird till 31 Dec 2026
₹1,20,000₹1,60,000
Per child, GST included. ₹40,000 off if you book by 31 Dec 2026; ₹1,60,000 is the rate from 1 January.
₹8,571 a day at the early-bird rate: tuition, bed, board, care and materials, all in.
Both Explorers courses, one each week, with the whole batch together — at this age a shared course builds a bigger cohort than a choice would. The last two weeks of the edition: 16–29 May 2027 or 20 June–3 July 2027. Both editions' Explorers courses are on the courses page.
Grades 8–11 · 21 days · both editions
GW Wizards
Early-bird till 31 Dec 2026
₹1,70,000₹2,10,000
Per child, GST included. ₹40,000 off if you book by 31 Dec 2026; ₹2,10,000 is the rate from 1 January.
₹8,095 a day at the early-bird rate: tuition, bed, board, care and materials, all in.
One course chosen from the year's list, taken all three weeks, ending in something built and defended.
Free · 20 questions · 35 minutes
Both editions (9–29 May 2027 and 13 June–3 July 2027) run three weeks. GW Wizards attend all three; GW Explorers attend two of them, which is why the longer program costs less per day. A deposit of ₹40,000 holds the seat.
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The parent brochures: May and June.
What the number is
Inside the fee
- All tuition, materials and project consumables
- Boarding at MAHE hostels (gender-separated, supervised)
- All meals — veg and non-veg, with allergy handling
- 24-hour residential care by trained TAs and residential coaches
- A nurse on the roster and doctors on call at both editions — and in May, Kasturba Hospital, a full teaching hospital, minutes away
- Excursions, evening activities and the open day
- An update to parents every day
- A written note from the instructor, with a growth report
- An end-of-course report on what your child understood, not what they memorised
- A course completion certificate
- 18% GST — the number you see is the number you pay
Outside it
- Travel to and from campus: MAHE Manipal in May, MAHE Bengaluru in June. We help coordinate group travel from major cities, and staff collect children travelling alone from the airport or station.
- Personal spending money
- A laptop, and for the AI-heavy May courses (Policy Paths, Code the Future) a paid ChatGPT or Claude plan
That is the whole list. If something is not on it, it is in the fee.
Why it costs this
Residential care at one residential coach or teaching assistant for every five students, on a working university campus, taught by people who do the subject for a living rather than by someone reading from a script. The ratio is the expensive part and it is the part we will not move: it is what makes the difference between a course your child sits through and one where someone notices what they asked.
Paying, and changing your mind
- The deposit
- ₹40,000 holds the seat, and it is fully refundable until 28 February 2027. After that it counts as fee paid and the ladder below applies. The balance is due by 25 March 2027, and you can pay it in parts before then.
- After 28 February: if you withdraw
- A published ladder, and the earlier you tell us the more comes back: 90% of fees paid if you withdraw 30 days or more before your child's start date, 70% from 15 to 29 days, 50% inside 15 days. The full policy, including what happens if we cancel Need to move to next year's program instead? The fee carries forward at the same value, and the admission moves with it.
Sticker shock is a fair reaction
A residential program of this length is a serious spend
Apply, and use the call to interrogate the value — who teaches, what your child does hour by hour, and what families before you took home.
Free · 20 questions · 35 minutes. Pay ₹40,000 to hold a seat. Change your mind until 28 February 2027 and all of it comes back.