Capital transparency: 22 realistic way to earn money for students

If you are willing to earn money as a student in India. First of all, appreciate yourself, working while studying is one of the best things a student can think of.

When you search online to make money, you may find ways that require huge investments, or that may have no good earning potential and some ways don’t even work in India.

I know that you are a student and definitely could not afford a huge investment. And I also know that you are busy with your studies and could not invest more time on what you are going to start.

So I have decided to make a list of ways for students in India to earn a really good amount of money which is both time and budget-friendly. I also made sure that all the ways are practical and proven to make a good chunk of money.

So let’s dive in.

*Warning – This is a long article and goes in-depth into most of the ways

21 Worthy Ways to Earn Money as a Student in India-

Sorry for Starting with the too obvious one. But I could not mention any other way before mentioning this.

1. Start Blogging [Own Website] & Vlogging [YouTube]

If you ask me ” How I can earn MORE money with LESS investment? “, I will say blogging and vlogging without any second thought.

Why?

Because of 3 reasons.

The investment is too low, anyone can start with a little bit of effort.

The scope of income is soo high. You can make more than a job.

You can select the topic which you are interested in & work on that.

Blogging

Blogging is like helping people with your information. But you need to get a website to start blogging.

These days you don’t need any knowledge of coding. There are platforms like WordPress, where you can create a website soo easily for less than Rs5000 at max. In fact, this website is built on WordPress.

You can select a topic which you love to write about like tech, cinema, sports or you can teach skills like drawing, languages, etc. Just make sure there is less competition on Google on the articles you are going to write, so you can easily rank on Google.

As you give people what they want, You get more visitors and perhaps more earning. This is not an instant process, it takes time to start earning from blogging. Consider at least 6 months.

Moreover, blogging has a bit of a learning curve. You really need to take this seriously, as serious as a business.

There are multiple ways to make money with blogging. Here I am listing some of the best ways.

Ads

Affiliate Marketing

Sponsored Videos

Paid Content

Services

You can start vlogging on YouTube for free, or you can consider Rs 5,000 for something like to buying props, microphone for better quality audio, etc.

In both, Blogging and Vlogging, you need to treat your website or Channel as a brand. Create Social Media Channels of it and promote. Always help your followers and make your brand a good exposure.

Blogging and Vlogging are great ways to make money as a student as they have good scope to give high returns and students can easily start off.

The downside is, these ways are like online business and it is really one of the hardest ways to start and earn. Anyhow, the earning potential of these ways is worth your hard work.

2. Work as a Delivery / Driver Partner

Ola, Uber, Rapido, Swiggy, Zomato, Uber Eats, Food Panda, Flipkart, Amazon, Snapdeal, Jabong, E-Kart, DTDC, etc.

You must have heard the names of these companies before. Nowadays, the delivery jobs from these companies have been quite popular. Many students are working as delivery boys already and even Swiggy ran an ad campaign saying “Work while studying”.

Yes, working as a delivery/driver is a high earning way to make money.

On average, you can earn around Rs 12,000 for bike deliveries and more than Rs 40,000 for cab driving just working part-time (5 hours/day) per month. And making such an amount every month is great for students.

By saving them every month, you can start a business by the end of your college without any loan or help from parents.

Requirements

Bike or Car

Driving License

PAN Card & Bank Account

AADHAR Card for Proof

You can register on their website, go for an interview where you can easily pass if you are good enough to read this blog post. Get an ID and start working.

The part-time options are available at different timings. So, it won’t be a problem with your studies & College.

3. Design T-shirts

T-shirt designing is the fun earning way & it is the one which I have done on my college days. You might have already seen T-shirts with some funny quotes and beautiful designs. There must be definitely one guy who designs them. And you can be that one guy.

There are many websites where you can upload your T-shirt designs. And the entire process of printing, delivery and customer care is taken by them. Some sites give you a commission for the sales and others provide you with the base price, so you can add your own profit and sell.

Souled Store and My Dream Store are some famous sites in India where you can upload the designs of the T-shirts.

For more detailed information, check out:- How to Earn money designing T-shirts in India

4. Create Subtitles or Captions to Videos

Captions and subtitles help to watch movies, TV Shows, Youtube Videos, etc. You can create them right from your own place and earn.

The more minutes of video you complete creating subtitles, the more you earn.

Platforms like Rev will help you to do so. But first, there will be a small test conducted by Rev, it is a bit harder though. If you have passed the test, you can start creating captions and make money from it.

So you can understand how serious this job is. Anyhow, if you got selected you can make around Rs 25,000 per month working around 5 hrs per day. And it is totally free to join.

So, even though the test is harder, it is worth trying out.

For more detailed information about what is the difference between subtitles and captions, & how you can join and start making money by creating them, check this out:- make money creating captions or subtitles.

5. Become a Tutor for others

This is something more related to students and also really helpful for studies too.

Tutoring is like making money from the skills and knowledge we know. If you are good at subjects, you can teach them to mates around you. If you don’t want to charge people around you, you can start teaching online and make money.

Not only the subjects, but you can also teach whatever the skill you have. You can teach skills like dancing or singing, languages you can speak, digital marketing & web designing skills, Video editing, music composition & even personal development if you love to do so. There is no end for this list.

Here are some of the best websites to start your tutoring careers

Vedantu

Udemy & Skill Share

Italki

6. Become an Article Writer or E-book Writer

If you are soo much interested in writing something, then you should definitely consider trying this. You can definitely start your own blog or channel. But you have other alternatives where you can get paid instantly.

Article Writing

People who run blogs can’t write each and every content on their own. So they hire people to write content for them. There are platforms where they can hire people. You can create an account in these content writing platforms and get paid for creating content. As you get paid instantly, you have a bit of an advantage over blogging where you need to work for months.

Here are 3 Famous content writing platforms where you can start making money.

iWriter

Text Broker

Hire Writers

You can also try freelancing sites like freelancer, up work, etc. But the sites I mentioned above focus only on content writers.

E-book writing

Amazon offers you to sell E-books for your own price. So as a content writer, you can write an E-book and sell on Amazon. As people need to buy your content other than just reading from the blog post, you need to provide that extra value to your content.

Moreover, you need to explain more in-depth and more clearly with good examples.

The process of writing an E-book is a bit time-taking process as you need to give that extra effort and a more in-depth explanation. Read as many blogs and E-books as you can, practice each and everything you are going to write about and get your own view on it.

Write the content, add images to it, add some examples where ever necessary & design a cover for your E-book.

Later to publish, go to kdp.amazon.com and sign in. After completing the creation of your profile, add your E-book and cover to it. Set your own price for your E-book.

Then promote your E-book on Social Media, Online Forums, Your Website or YouTube channel and Paid Ads. You can make money depending upon the sales you made on your E-book.

Also, you can make money from affiliate marketing by placing affiliate links in E-books.

7. Get Commission for Recommending Products [Affiliate Marketing]

Affiliate Marketing is like recommending products or services to someone and getting paid for it. Something like getting an commission for bringing more customers.

There are many services that support Affiliate Marketing like Amazon, Flipkart, Share A Sale, V Commission, Reseller Club, etc.

You can sign-in these services and create affilate links for their products.

Now promote those products on Social Media, Website, E-books, YouTube, etc and where ever possible.

If someone buys the product from your link, them you will get the commission in between for recommending. The percentage varies from product to product and service to service.

But if you are good at online marketing and developing social media channels, then Affiliate Marketing can be something like making a portal for the money to flow in. This might sound easy, but it’s a big subject when you start stepping in.

8. Get Commission when someone completes a task [CPA Marketing]

Just like Affilate Marketing, you will make commission in the middle. But users don’t have purchase any product, instead they have to complete an action. Something like filling form, signing up for a trail, completing survey, etc.

CPA marketing

If you find affiliate marketing hard as people aren’t buying any products, then prefer CPA Marketing as it will have more conversions and help you to make some quick cash. Though the amount paid from CPA is lower, it is great way to start as it has good conversion rates than Affilaite Marketing.

9. Start a Retail Business without any investment [Drop Shipping]

Yes, absolutely you can start a retail business without any investment and you can start selling right from your place.

How drop shipping works

Services like Shopify, Meesho and Glow Road will help you to do so. You need to create an account in these apps, where you can find many products to sell, mostly stuff like clothing & tech accessories. You just need to recommend those products to people by sharing links and whenever anyone buys, you get your commission.

The best part is, you can decide your price. So when anyone buys from your link, you will get profit depending on the price you have set.

You don’t need a website or any Youtube channels. Just create Social Media accounts: Facebook Page, Twitter Account, Instagram & importantly Whatsapp.

Share the links & images of your products and treat your social media accounts as online boutiques. Just create your brand, whenever people buy from your link, those apps will deliver the products with your brand name on the pack and people can’t even know that you are getting products from these apps.

So, it’s just like you created an online store and people are buying from you.

It also takes a bit of time to earn from this way, as your social media accounts need to grow and people need to trust you. Start promoting from your family and friends.

For in-depth information on creating a retail business, you can check out this post:- Sell Products on WhatsApp without Investment

10. Be a Freelancer

If you are good at something, you can get a job related to it or you can be a freelancer and work whenever you want to. Just create an account on freelance websites for free and start working. Freelancer, Upwork, Latium, Fiverr, etc are some of the best freelance sites in India to start.

Freelancing skills

You can do things like web designing, translation, app development, video editing, user testing, graphic designing, online marketing, search engine optimization, etc.

11. Complete Micro Tasks on Fiverr and Amazon Mechanical Turk.

Freelancing is a kind of hard task as you need to be soo much good and skilled at things like coding, designing, poetry, etc. But what if you get paid for small micro-tasks like dancing, singing, delivering, data entry, power pointing.

Amazon mechanical turk

Fiverr and Amazon Mechanical Turk will help you make money from micro-tasks like that.

Just create an account on those sites and complete those small tasks & get paid instantly.

12. Become a Website, App or Game developer

There are actually multiple ways for you earm money if you are a developer. Here are some of them for you:

Create your Own App or Game

Creating an app is no a small thing as it requires programming knowledge on multiple languages.

But not even impossible. One of my friends created a game and made around Rs 8,000. I know that’s too small. But it’s a small game with just 3,000 downloads. He could have made another game but decided to stop and concentrate on his father’s business.

He left because 2 months of time to earn Rs 8,000 is soo less. But if his game is a success, you would have earned in lakhs. So there is both pro and con to it.

Ultimately, you have to create an app or game which users like.

Start Website Flipping

Website Flipping is kind of a skilled money-making process.

First, you buy a domain and hosting for a website, then you run the website for a few months until it reaches some amount of money. Later you will sell the website for a much larger price.

You can build 3 websites with the amount you received. Later you will sell those websites and make even more money. I think you got the point. It’s called website Flipping.

It’s definitely not so easy. You need to be a master of generating income through websites. But once you are good at it. You can definitely start website flipping.

Flippa is the best website and also famous for starting your career flipping websites.

Start Online Marketing Services

Online Marketing is a big subject. People who are creating websites and YouTube channels need to make money from them. But unfortunately, they don’t know how to promote or how to rank them higher on Google.

You can help them rank higher and get more sales. And for that, you can charge them some fees. This field is best if you know how to do online marketing.

Even though you don’t know, by learning Online marketing, you have a high scope of earning money.

Needless to say, when many can’t do it, you can say that it’s not easy. It may take years to master online marketing. But it is a field that has a high scope of earning.

Bug-Bounty Hunting

Apps, Games, Websites, Softwares, etc all of them are something we are using almost every day. And some companies are making crores of rupees from them.

But they are not totally perfect, they may have some bugs in them that raises vulnerabilities or spoils the user experience. So they need to clear them off to maintain their standards.

So, if you find any bugs, you can notify them and they will pay you for your contribution.

Freelance Works

You can also try out services like Freelancer, Upwork, etc to get freelance works like creating a website for someone, making changes to the UI, adding or removing any function from the app or website, etc.

13. Make Money from Social Media

Become a Social Media Manager-

As the name suggests, you manage the social media accounts. For whom? For many companies that have social media accounts for advertising and promoting purposes.

These accounts can also be useful to get in contact with their customers or become a helpful customer care service.

There comes the managers.

It’s hard to be a social media manager as you need to work full-time on most cases and it’s just hard to reach any company that is in need for this small job.

But you can go search for small companies and promote their business online to be a social media manager.

Get a part Time job as Social Media Moderator or Social Evaluator

Being an Social Media Manager is hard as you need to find a company that needs the manager and you also have to work full-time on most cases. There comes the social media moderators.

With this, you are one of the many moderators unlike manager and can work part-time.

You need to monitor their Social media sites and check whether the user’s feedback is Good.

For this, you need to understand the company needs and follow their instructions. You need to work at least 15hrs per week.

You may get paid from Rs500 to RS1000 per week. Though the income is not great, the job is easy if you are already a social media user.

Appen.com, CrispThinking.com, LiveWorld.com, ModSquad.com are the sites where you can apply for the Job.

Instagram Influencer

You might have already seen many Instagram Influencers before.

The concept is simple, you take some topic that might interest you like pets, fasion, travel, sports, tech, etc. You can post pics related to it and get in contact with your page followers.

Once your page has a good amount of followers, companies partner up with you to promote their products. If you post about pets, pet companies can contact you to promote their products such as pet food, toys, etc.

Companies prefer partnering more than advertising as these work a lot better for them to reach the target market and you can make a good amount in the middle as an influencer.

But you also have to be picky about partnering because it is like recommending those products to your followers.

Promotions

You can also use Social Media to promote your blog, YouTube Channel, Affliate links, E-books, etc.

14. Use your Creative Skills to Earn

Not everything is technical, here are some of the ways you make money with your creativity

Creative skills

Start your career as a Graphic Designer

If you are good at Logo designing, website designing, animations, VFX works, illustrations, vector arts, etc, etc, etc. You can start your career as a designer.

But unlike other ways in this list, you need to have good skills and good creativity right from the starting as you design products for other people.

99 designs and freelance websites like freelancer, upwork are some good places to start.

Start Editing Short Films

There are hundreds of Short Films coming out every year in India. And some of them really have the worst editing possible. This industry is in a need for more editors definitely. If you are good at editing, then start editing Short Films.

Unlike many other ways in the list, you need to promote yourself in the offline. Online promotion may work, but offline promotion makes even more sense. Contact small film Studio’s and short film studios to get part-time work.

Get in contact with people in the Industry & People who are willing to take short films.

Apart from short films, you can edit YouTube videos, Wedding Videos, etc. You can promote using Social Media or a website.

Freelance websites like Freelancer, Upwork, Fiverr are one of the best options to consider.

Become a Student Photographer

Being a Photographer, you can make money from Online as well as offline.

Weddings, Photo Shoots are some offline methods whereas Freelancing, Instagram, YouTube, Online Tutor are some of the best ways you can make money as a photographer.

Become a Short Film Cinematographer

There are thousands and thousands of short films coming out every month. In most of them, their cinematography skills suck. You can work as a cinematographer for them and make them better.

As a cinematographer, you need to have some camera equipment to start. But this is one of the jobs where there is a serious need for a good cinematographer and you can definitely make money with some good skills on it.

Make-up Artist

Make-up Artist is one kind of job that is just perfect to start in college. You are at a perfect age to start this business and you are at a point where you can find a lot of customers right before you.

Students in your college are more than enough to make money as a make-up artist.

So, if you are interested in the make-up field, then you can think about investing in it. Arrange a room and get the equipment to start working.

As normally, you need to consider having uniqueness in your business and also maintain your prices reasonably comparing other businesses outside.

Act as a Side

Acting is a dream job for many people. And if you are one of them, you had a good number of chances to make money with acting.

Though you may not be in any lead role, you can act as an extra in any movie or serials. Or you can try to work on Short films which pay you money.

But the problem is, you need to have some passion and skills to acting or this is kind of earning is soo hard and the amount is also not a great amount.

Dubbing Service

There is a lot of need in various fields like movies, serials, short films, web series, etc for dubbing.

If you had a good voice, you should definitely try to a dubbing artist. You can contact film and short film studios for the job. They will contact you every time they need for a dubbing artist which suits you.

Of course, finding a job in the film industry is tough. But with a good voice, you can find a job for dubbing service so easily.

Party Planner

Birthday Parties, Wedding Parties, Job Parties, etc.

There are a lot of Parties people normally celebrate. As a Party Planner, you can make the party more fun full of your ideas. This can be said as a small version of the wedding planner.

People don’t really want a special planner and they can handle stuff on their own. So, you need to make them surprise with your works & think beyond what others are thinking. So, that & those ideas are which make the career for the Party Planner.

Interior Decorator

Similar to Party Planner, Interior decorator is also a business which depends on your skills and ideas.

Interior Decoration should start from your room as you can show that has your portfolio. You can find opportunities in freelancing sites or you can create a website on it.

You may think does this field has a scope, check out searching Interior designer in the city on Google, you may find your competitors.

Write Novels or Movie Scrips

We have talked about many content writing types before, but this is the one which more people are interested in. Actually, you can make money from these right from now.

First things first, write down a script for a movie or a Novel. Then you can take the copyrights of it and sell to film studios and book publishers.

Start a Music Troop

Start a Music troop and work in Parties, YouTube, Disco, Wedding. I know they are were not you wanted if you love to be the music industry.

But this can help you to earn money with what you love.

Moreover, you can use these ways to improve your music skills.

15. Find Jobs in your Local Area

College Canteen

College Canteens are one of the most profitable business in the college. But there are minus sides too.

You need to

Take Permissions from the college

Pay the Rent for the Canteen

Buy the stock in your Canteen.

There may be another canteen in your college and to overcome it you need to make something different which eventually costs more. So this is not an investment-friendly way. But you are good enough for the investment and want to start earning right from the college.

You can start making money with college canteen.

Gym Trainer

What job would be better if you are interested in fitness and bodybuilding? Moreover, Gym trainers have a decent income. The best part is most gyms offer part-time jobs.

First, you need to list out all the gyms near you. Enquire for any job vacancies. Track down schedules, salaries, and other features and choose the best which you like.

Work in a Grocery Store

Doing billing jobs part-time in some grocery store or in a supermarket can be a great job for a student. Because you can earn some amount every month consistently.

The job is also easy to do and to get. You can just contact the manager of the super market near you to check whether any jobs left.

Tour Guide

If there are any places like historical palaces, museums, old temples, etc. You can choose a tour guide to make money as a student.

If you are too good with many languages, selecting a tour guide is a better option as people come from different places and you may need to speak or even understand what people are saying. I am not saying languages are a compulsory thing, but if you have, you have an advantage.

Mostly, Tour guide can have an income which can be considered good enough.

Car Washing Service

Start a Car Washing Service at your place. The cost of the investment may be a bit for renting out a place and buying the equipment. But if you feel there are less car washing services at your place, you can start one.

For any type of business, you need to think twice whether it will work out or not. Car Washing service is not an exception for it. Mainly the area where you are going to start has to have people who have cars & there should be less competition. And with a good service, you can definitely make a profit from the business.

Laundry Service

Similar to Car Washing service, this is one of the best ways to start your business locally.

And you may already know that it is becoming hard to find maids today. You can start a laundry service with your washing machine.

Or you can simply rent out your washing machine for them for some time and make money.

Sales Man in a Shopping Mall

The salesman is also a part-time job which students can do and make money.

You can contact, shopping malls, shops for the job. You get paid between Rs 6,000 to Rs 15,000 per month. Selling Dictionaries and other products directly to homes is another kind of way you can try for.

Work in Dominos, Mc Donalds, KFC, etc

This is a kind of excellent job every one needs. Apart from the salary, they also provide food.

Having Food from Dominos or KFC every day can be a dream, and that too for free. Contact the nearest centre to get this job. It’s not hard to get the job, you can get selected if this is any vacancy.

16. Invest in Stock Market

If you have knowledge about the stock market, then one of the easiest yet the best way of earning money is investing.

Anyhow, this requires a good investment right from the start. But if you manage to get a few bucks to start, your best bet will be the stock market for sure.

You can create a Demat account with services like Upstox or Angel broking and proceed investing from your own place with just a phone and a net connection.

These services also do not provide you with all the paperwork that goes into investing, it makes the process easy for you from the get-go.

17. Invest in Crypto Currencies

You might have heard about bitcoins before. & you may also know that there are many currencies like that. You can make money by investing in them.

The process is so simple. You need to earn crypto currencies or purchase them. If the price of the currency increases, your money will get increased and vice versa. In short, it’s like investing in the stock market.

Don’t invest in crypto currencies unless you are familiar with them.

You need to have a clear idea of whether your investment is going to work or not.

If you are not familiar with crypto currencies, you can start learning about them, they are kind of an interesting topic. Just search in Google ” How to earn money from Crypto Currencies in India ” and start your investing journey.

18. Start Earning from PTC Sites & Survey Sites.

PTC Sites and Survey sites pay for things like completing surveys, clicking on ads, referring, etc. They are free to join and one of the easiest ways to earn. You can earn while watching TV, traveling on the bus, etc.

Survey make easy to earn

The amount you earn from PTC or Survey Sites is not high but it’s good, you can earn up to Rs 5,000 from them by working around 2 – 3 hours every day. There may be ways that pay you more for spending such time, but they were not as easy or not free. PTC & Survey sites offer you a way where you can start earning right now without any money or any kind of skill.

Companies pay these sites for advertising their products and these sites pay you some part of it as you are clicking on their ads. So you can earn from clicking on ads, companies can advertise their products more and these sites also make money in between. It is profit for everyone.

Survey sites are also similar as you answer the surveys, companies can understand what people need and it can help in their future projects

19. Apps to Earn Money

Earning through apps is another easiest way to earn money. It is obviously not a great way to earn. But this is one which most people find helpful. You get paid for things like downloading, referring or even Gaming.

Apps that earn

PTC Sites, Survey Sites & these apps are the once which don’t make much money but can be helpful to earn a few extra pocket money every month. If you don’t want to work every day and all you need is a few extra cash, these 2 are your way to go. I cannot suggest you any other ways which are as easy as these & legit.

20. Become a Virtual assistance

You will be working in a company for Part-time. The best part about this is, you don’t need to go anywhere, you can work from your home or hostel room.

Virtual stabilizer

It is definitely scalable for students, & they really pay a good amount of money.

Check out this article on Shout Me Loud to get a better understanding:- How to Make Money as a Virtual Assistance

21. Bettings

Earning money not always has to be legal, definitely betting comes to this category. I am not going to go in-depth into it.

Cricket. Politics and Movies are some ways people normally bet on. But remember that, there is a high chance of loosing the bet too.

22. Convert Your Parents Business to Online.

If your parents are running any business, then you can make that business online by applying to Flipkart, Amazon or any other E-commerce website.

Or you can build a separate E-commerce website if you decided to maintain it and make that grow.

The Best one: Begin a Start-Up

Why partner up or work at someone, when you had a good idea for the startup. Special Mentioning:- Good Idea. The idea is something which makes any startup soo special.

Definitely starting a YouTube channel or running your own website is a startup but a very small one. But if you had the idea to launch a new business which works, then try out for sponsors..

The startup is nothing but clearing people’s problem in a new way. Think about any problem you are facing, try to come up with the best possible solution and work hard to implement it and make it big. Here we are talking about a solution to the problem and also years of hard work.

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