Unisa is offering Postgraduate Diploma and Honours bursaries for the 2025 academic year.
The postgraduate diploma and honours bursary aim to assist qualifying South African Unisa alumni students with their Unisa tuition fees, thus enabling them to register and complete their qualifications.
Financial support is offered to both postgraduate diploma and honours students subject to eligibility, academic performance, and availability of funds.
- Returning Bursary Beneficiaries – previously funded by UNISA PG Bursary.
- UNISA NQF level 8 PG Diploma/ honours students South African (citizens) who have passed their previously funded/ registered modules with an average of 50%.
- New Bursary applicants – never been funded by UNISA PG Bursary.
- UNISA NQF level 7 undergraduate alumni students, South African (citizens) who have completed their degree/ advance diploma by 31 January 2025, and attained an average of 60% on their entire undergraduate qualification (including supplementary, failed, etc modules).
- UNISA NQF level 8 PG Diploma/ honours students, South African (citizens) in their second year of study who have passed at least three postgraduate modules and attained an average of 60% in the same previously registered Postgraduate qualification.
Students need to be temporarily registered by 31 January 2024 for registration to be activated once application is successful. Due to limited funds, students not registered during awarding will not be funded. Additionally, no additional modules will be funded after award has been allocated and registration has been activated.
Returning bursary beneficiaries are required to re-apply for the bursary for each academic year registered for the same previously funded qualification subject to bursary guidelines, terms and conditions.
- The bursary covers TUITION FEES ONLY.
- The bursary does NOT provide any laptop, accommodation, textbook or additional study material allowances.
- The bursary funds students for TWO consecutive years of funding, subject to 2nd year approved re-application.
- The bursary does NOT cover failed/ repeating modules.
- The bursary does NOT fund additional or different NQF level 8 qualification from the one previously funded.
- The bursary does NOT cover historic debt.
- Priority will be given to outstanding students with higher averages – awarding from highest to the lowest performing student (e.g., from 100% average to 60% average) subject to the availability of funds, as per average calculation on the entire undergraduate qualification/ three honours/PG diploma modules (including supplementary, failed, etc modules).
Only online applications submitted via myUnisa link app will be considered. No hard copy, email or hand delivered, late or incomplete applications will be considered.
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