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Academic Merit Bursaries for New Entrant First-year students

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  • ​These bursaries are made available to newcomer students who enrol for a National Diploma or a B Tech degree at the University for the first time after Grade 12.
  • Only South African citizens qualify for these bursaries.
  • Students who enrol for non-subsidised courses, do not qualify for these bursaries. 
  • A student only qualifies for the bursary if they register for all the modules of a specific course. 
  • Students who have studied at other universities and those students who have already studied at the University and who are undergraduate students again, do not qualify for these bursaries.
  • Allocations are made annually and should a student cancel their registration in the year they receive the award they will forfeit the allocation.
  • Eligibility is determined by the average percentage of each subject on the Grade 12 certificate which will provide an accumulated discount based on the subjects passed on a certain level. 
Criteria and the value of bursaries to be determined by the FAC annually:

CRITERIA​
VALUE OF DISCOUNT PER SUBJECT (ALL COURSES)
≥ 85%
To be determined annually​
75% to 84%
To be determined annually​
< 74%​
0​
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