Partially funded

UFS Honours Tuition Fee Bursary

University of the Free State, South Africa

Scholarship overview

The UFS Honours Bursary is a once-off, partial tuition fee award for full-time, first-time Honours students at the University of the Free State, administered by the Centre for Graduate Support (CGS) on academic merit, subject to available funds.

The call referenced here was issued for the 2023 academic year. The Centre for Graduate Support's current Honours & PGDip Bursaries page no longer lists an internal UFS Honours tuition award and instead points students only to external funders such as the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship and Wellcome Trust grants.

Award Information

  • South African and international students.
  • Full-time, first-time Honours students in the award year.
  • Aggregate of at least 65% for undergraduate studies.
  • Undergraduate degree obtained in the minimum prescribed period.
  • Not a holder of a government bursary or scholarship (for example the NRF).
  • Not a recipient of the UFS Staff Study Benefit or remission on tuition fees.
  • Not eligible: holders of an Honours or final-year B Tech degree; students in their second year of Honours study; undergraduate students; students pursuing a Postgraduate Diploma, PGCE or Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting; students previously funded by the Postgraduate School; employed students.
  • The award cannot settle outstanding fees from previous years.
  • Meeting the minimum criteria does not guarantee an award; bursaries depend on academic merit and available funds.
  • Recipients must attend the CGS Research Capacity Development workshops.
  • Partial tuition fee award for the Honours year.
  • Once-off; not renewable into a second Honours year.

The 2023 call closed on 15 January 2023. No bursary-specific closing date for a later year is currently published; the Centre for Graduate Support's Honours & PGDip Bursaries page lists only external funders with their own various dates.

  1. Complete the online survey application at surveys.ufs.ac.za/evasys/online.php?p=HONRS.
  2. If your undergraduate degree is from another institution, email your academic record as a PDF (final marks in percentages, not symbols) to [email protected] with the subject "Application for UFS Honours Funding" and your UFS student number.
  3. If your undergraduate degree is from UFS, do not submit a record; the Centre for Graduate Support retrieves it directly.
  4. Direct enquiries to Lindiwe Booi, [email protected], Centre for Graduate Support, Johannes Brill Building, Office 6b.

Official call: UFS Honours Tuition Bursary 2023 call for applications.

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Documents you will need

  • Official academic record/transcript showing the undergraduate qualification has been obtained.
  • Applicants who did not graduate from UFS must submit a transcript with final marks in percentages, not symbols, requested directly from their previous institution.
  • Applicants who graduated from UFS do not submit a record; the Centre for Graduate Support accesses it internally.

How selection works

Bursaries are awarded on academic merit and availability of funds to applicants who meet the 65% aggregate and other criteria.

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