DUT Undergraduate Scholarship Award for New Students (USAS)

• NSC aggregate of 80% or higher: 100% remission of tuition fees for the first year of registration.
• NSC aggregate of 70% to 79%: 50% remission of tuition fees for the first year.
• Fee remission covers tuition only and excludes additional costs such as breakages and experiential training.
• If the student withdraws or deregisters during the year, the full scholarship becomes payable to DUT.
• Students with an outside bursary covering the full tuition amount receive instead a R500 textbook voucher (70% to 79% aggregate) or R800 voucher (80% or higher). Where a partial bursary is held, DUT tops up the difference up to the amount the student would have qualified for.

No separate application deadline is stated; the award is assessed from NSC results at registration.

1. Apply for a DUT undergraduate programme and register full-time as a new student.
2. DUT calculates your NSC aggregate and applies the tuition remission at registration.
3. Declare any outside bursary or loan.

Policy and fee details: 2026 student fees booklet.

The NSC results and declaration of any other bursaries or loans are used to assess the award.

The aggregate is calculated by DUT as the sum of the subject percentages (excluding Life Orientation) divided by the number of subjects taken; where more than seven subjects were taken, the six highest (excluding Life Orientation) are used. Recipients must declare any outside bursaries or loans when applying; failure to do so can forfeit future DUT scholarship awards.