UCT Entrance Scholarships and Faculty Scholarships

• Commerce: R40,000 each.
• Engineering and the Built Environment: R60,000 each.
• Humanities: R40,000 each.
• Law: R20,000, competitive, one year.
• Science Level 1 (FPS 740 or higher): R40,000; Level 2 (FPS 720 to 739): R20,000.
• Entrance Scholarships are valid only for the year of the offer; deferring applicants must meet the threshold for their registration year, and faculties may roll over offers for gap-year applicants.
• Cancelling registration before mid-year exams forfeits the scholarship; cancelling after mid-year exams yields half the value.
• Faculty Scholarships are also withdrawn if the student does not register for the award year or transfers to another faculty.

The scholarship details refer to the 2027 intake. There is no application deadline because there is no application process.

1. Apply for admission to UCT through the normal undergraduate admissions process; there is no separate scholarship application.
2. Faculties identify recipients from admission information and prior-year results.
3. Faculty Scholarship candidates register for a full workload and pass every course.

Details: UCT Entrance Scholarships.

No scholarship application documents are required. Applicants submit the standard UCT admission application and results.

Faculties select recipients on NSC results (Entrance Scholarships) or academic achievement (Faculty Scholarships), applying the faculty thresholds above. Redress is applied through a disadvantage factor for Entrance Scholarships and self-declared racial identity for Faculty Scholarships. Deans may use discretion based on academic record, circumstances and panel or department advice. Fine Art uses portfolio ratings (A, B+, B) with NSC and NBT as tie-breakers; Theatre and Performance and Dance Education weigh audition, NSC and NBT equally; Music uses audition ratings with NSC, NBT and teacher recommendation as tie-breakers.