Scholarships that match your skills
The flexibility of our scholarship programme means you’re more likely to be able to find funding to match your own specific area of study.
Scholarships
Scholarships in New Zealand
A New Zealand scholarship can help you achieve great things in your chosen field. You may also find that, given the lower student numbers, that your particular area of specialisation has yet to have received financial assistance. This means that your chances of attaining grants could be higher than in other countries where there is more competition for limited funds.
If they can do it, so can you
Here's just a few examples of scholarship recipients, who now have the freedom to study in their chosen field:
Payal Diwadkar
Institution
University of Otago
Scholarship
New Zealand International Doctoral Scholarship (NZIDRS)
Area of specialisation
Genetic Research
"I wasn’t planning on staying here when I came. I was thinking of going back (to India). But the research here is quite good compared to back home."
Gaius Wilson
Institution
Victoria University of Wellington
Scholarship
New Zealand Postgraduate Study Abroad Award
Area of specialisation
Effect of the Exotic Weed Lantana Camara on Elephant Feeding Habits in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve
"Being able to conduct field work for my PhD was essential."
Qi Li
Institution
University of Auckland
Scholarship
New Zealand – China Doctoral Research Scholarship
Area of specialisation
Teaching English as a Second Language and how Social and Cultural Backgrounds Affect Learning
"“What made me make the final decision to complete my PhD in NZ was that I could work with some of the most distinguished scholars in my field if I undertook my PhD in NZ.”"
Nicolas Buchmann
Institution
University of Canterbury
Scholarship
New Zealand International Doctoral Scholarship (NZIDRS)
Area of specialisation
Fluid Dynamics of Blood Distribution Through the Brain
"The research was very interesting and I was given the opportunity to incorporate my previous experiences and to help build a research group around my topic."
NZIDRS
Funded by the New Zealand Government, The New Zealand International Doctoral Research Scholarships (NZIDRS) select candidates based on academic merit, and provide full tuition fees and up to $20,500 living expenses per annum. To qualify you need to show evidence that academic supervision in your chosen field of expertise is available.
New Zealand Aid
This programme provides scholarships to citizens of some developing countries to undertake vocational training or tertiary level study in, New Zealand or in some cases the Pacific region.
University Scholarships
Scholarships are available from all eight of New Zealand’s universities, in a wide range of disciplines. The scholarship programmes’ key goals are to share New Zealand’s unique educational system with the rest of the world and bring the best academics from overseas to come and study in New Zealand.