Gujarat university believes in influencing students and provides an opportunity to foster healthy development, bolstering student's belief in their own capacity and increase their higher intellectual ability. For getting great students, and minds with full of wonders Gujarat University is always ready to award financial aid for a student to further their education at a university.

Gujarat University offers scholarships to the lower backward class or SC/ST for better education and financial support and tries to encourage students towards hard work and loves reading. More than 30 scholarship schemes initiated by the Government of Gujarat are covered by Gujarat University.

For developing high-quality research Government of Gujarat has started a scheme called SHODH (scheme of developing high-quality research ) to provide financial assistance to students doing qualitative research. Under this scheme, more than 1000 full-time research scholars awarded 15,000 per month+ 20,000 contingency expense p.a. in the last five years. Assistance for higher education to students under Mukhymantri Yuva Swavlamban Yojana is also included by Gujarat University.