Pan India, 12th November 2025: What if India’s largest youth festival didn’t live in one city but travelled to every college across the country? That was the idea behind Under25’s Summit at Campus (SAC). What started as an experiment has turned into a national youth movement. After completing 100 Summits in 2025, Under25 now sets its sights on 200 Summits across 30 cities by March 2026.
Unlike typical college fests, SACs are licensed, student-run experiences powered by Under25’s nationwide fellowship network. It is an on-ground culture experience that brings workshops, conversations, performances, and real-world exposure straight to college campuses. It’s where students meet creators, brands, and mentors who actually give them the knowledge and experience they need to become leaders in their fields. Through Under25, the students have the opportunity to learn leadership in a way that pushes them to bring out their best potential. It’s where classrooms turn into launchpads for creativity, community, and career.
Fueled by a fellowship of over 100 student leaders, SACs have reached 128M+ people online and 490,000 students on the ground in Season 2, now expanding to 200 colleges across 30 cities.
Every SAC is built by students, for students. Through the Under25 Fellowship, students apply, get trained, and earn a license to host the Summit on their campus, managing programming, outreach, operations, and partnerships end-to-end. Also working with big brands that add weight to their resumes.
For the fellows behind it, SAC becomes a turning point. The SACs aren’t just an outdoor experience that the students curate. It is a crash course in leadership, creativity, and problem-solving. These students transform into leaders, learning on the go how to manage pressure, work with people, communicate at scale, and build something from the ground up.
It’s the kind of experience that doesn’t come from textbooks or classrooms. It happens when students create an ecosystem for themselves, where communities are formed and leaders are discovered. SAC prepares them for the world outside college, where initiative, ownership, and execution matter. SAC gives them that edge early, by trusting them to take charge of something that matters to hundreds of their peers.
The magic didn’t stop at the Summits though. In the run-up to each event, Under25 hosted 95+ pre-events, from student talent hunts and jam sessions to micro-workshops and late night brainstorms, building energy, and anticipation.
SACs Curate an Edutainment Experience for Universities and Students
Colleges like Symbiosis, Amity, Ramaiah, NSUT, NIFT, IIM Kozhikode, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Guwahati, BITS Pilani, Bennett, SRCC, Christ, DY Patil, and NMIMS have all hosted SACs, and most of them are asking for more.
For universities, SACs are more than festivals,they’re credibility markers. They put campuses on the youth culture map, bring marquee creators and brands to classrooms, and give students real exposure at no cost. When students grow, their institutions grow too.
SACs Bring Celebrity Fanfare to Campuses
Each SAC blends student-led content with entertainment, performances, and conversations that reflect Gen Z’s cultural language. From live music and creator talks to comedy sets and panel discussions, every summit brings students and icons together in a space that feels relevant and real.
The journey to 200 Summits is about building a vibrant network of thought leaders, artists, and creators who engage directly with students from Dolly Singh, Taaruk Raina, Riya Chakravorty, Funcho, Ali Fazal, Shriya Pilgaonkar, RJ Abhinav, Kriti Kharbanda, JustNeelThings, Ahsaas Channa, Rida Tharana, Rebel Kid, Sahher Bamba, Aisha Ahmed, Funyaasi, Bhuvam Bam, Prajakta Koli, Rohit Saraf, Ashish Chanchalani, Varun Sharma, to entrepreneurs like Kishore Biyani, all coming together to share real, relatable stories about ambition, identity, and growth. For artists and creators, SACs are the rare moment where the energy is unfiltered, the crowd is real, and they get to connect directly to their younger audience.
What it means for brands
In a world where “Gen Z engagement” is usually a slide on a larger deck, Under25 proved something better: Relevance isn’t built online. It’s built on campuses.
In fests. In corridors. In the raw, messy places where young people are just being themselves. That’s what Zerodha tapped into across Seasons 2 and 3, powering SACs with its “Invest In You” campaign — reframing investing as self-growth. Through speaker sessions, activities, and student-led experiences, the message turned financial literacy into a cultural
conversation, reaching 1M+ students on-ground and 203M+ youth online.
“We’ve gone from 7 Summits in 1 city to an ambitious journey toward 200 across 30 cities – but the heart’s still the same. It is not just about building spaces but also seamlessly integrating branded stories in these experiences, which feel real, not forced. That’s what always travels with us, no matter where we go,” said Jeel Gandhi, CEO, Under25.
As Under25 marches toward 200 Summits, one message is clear: Gen Z isn’t disengaged. They’re simply demanding authenticity. Through SACs, they are not waiting for culture to come to them. They are building it themselves.
