Tata Steel Women of Mettle 2026

Women of Mettle Season X is Tata Steel's flagship annual competition for women engineering students, now in its tenth edition. Open to 2nd and 3rd year women students in core and tech engineering disciplines at selected campuses across India, the competition challenges teams to solve real-world technical problems from the steel industry, mentored by Tata Steel's senior leadership. The top 10 teams share a total scholarship pool of Rs 20 lakh. Top performers from the batch of 2028 receive an Inspire Internship offer, and top performers from the batch of 2027 receive a Pre-Placement Offer. Teams of 1 or 2, and registration closes October 8, 2026. Participants analyse actual operational, technical, and business challenges that Tata Steel's teams work on, present structured recommendations to senior leadership, and compete for outcomes that extend beyond prize money into employment at Tata Steel. Joining roles for scholars are MT Systems for CS and IT disciplines and MT Technical for all other engineering disciplines.

Women students in a full-time four-year B.Tech or B.E. programme in these disciplines: Computer Science, IT, Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical, Metallurgy, Mining, Mining Machinery, Mineral Processing, Chemical, Civil, Ceramic, or Environment. Must be in the top 25% of your stream with no active backlogs, and enrolled at a Tata Steel T-School campus (see the official portal for the list). Not open to dual degree or integrated programme students. Both members of a two-person team must be from the same institute and the same branch.

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