About The Bursary
This Bursary is for the 2025 academic year. You need to be studying full-time in 2025 to qualify.
What will the Bursary include?
- The available funding opportunities serves as a commitment to skills development, meaningful socio-economic transformation, and the country’s broader development agenda.
In most instances you can expect the sponsorship to offer the following:
- Full-Fee Funding, covering: Registration/Tuition, accommodation, meals, books and stationery/necessities (as approved by the sponsor).
- Laptop provided for study purposes.
- On-going psycho-social support provided by Excel@Uni.
- Light-touch mentorship for developing essential skills imperative for personal and professional growth.
- The final details of what the bursary will cover, will only be confirmed & final when successful applicants recieve their final bursary award/pledge letter (signed by the sponsor)
Who Can Apply
The bursary programme will be aimed at candidates who meet the following criteria:
- South African Citizen
- Under 30 years of age.
- This bursary also allows applicants that are 2024 matric students; or on a gap-year after matric in 2023.
All students registered for full-time studies at any DHET/CHE registered tertiary Institution (university, college, etc), in 2025.
- For the following NQF-6 (or higher) qualifications: Diploma, Advanced Diploma, Bachelors Degree/Honours
This opportunity is NOT open to:
- These qualification levels: N4/5/6, Higher Certificate, Masters or Doctoral students.
- Students at these institution types: TVETs, Community Colleges, Graduate/Business School
Academic performance:
- Obtaining a good academic record with an academic performance-average of 60% (or above) for the latest full academic-year (and/or year so far)
- People with living with evidences disabilities only need an academic performance-average of 50% (or above)
Students registered as (first, second or third/final) year students in the following fields of study:
- STEM-related (Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics/Quantitative or Medical) degrees
- Medicine/Medical sciences (or closely related)
- Human Resources (or closely related)
- Marketing (or closely related)
- Legal (or closely related)
- Purchasing / Logistics / Supply Chain (or closely related)
- Business Management (or closely related)
Depending on application stage, candidates may be required to undergo screening, shortlisting, interview, and psychometric assessments.
Amongst qualifying applications, the following may be preferred:
- Applicants in line with the sponsor's transformation/ employment equity objectives and requirements.
- Applicants in their 2nd year onwards.
- Applicants on track to finish their qualification in the minimum-time required (not N+1 or higher)
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