FirstRand Empowerment Foundation Bursary

About

Description

The FirstRand Empowerment Foundation offers bursaries to first-year students in a variety of degree programmes at traditional public universities. The degree programmes funded are informed by the critical skills needs of the country, FirstRand and social investing focus areas.

Responsibilities

• Only Black South African citizens, as defined by the BBBEE Act, will be considered
• Applicants must have obtained a minimum of level 5 for Mathematics in Grade 12
• Applicants must not be older than 21 years in their first year of study
• Applicants must have applied for and been provisionally admitted into a South African public traditional university for fulltime studies in the degrees stated above
• Only applicants who will start studying towards a first degree in 2026 who are currently in Grade 12 or who have completed Grade 12 not more than 3 years ago will be considered
• Only applicants from families with a combined gross annual income of up to R600,000 will be considered

Qualifications

• Agricultural Sciences: All specialisations
• Commercial Sciences: Accounting, Actuarial Science, Economics, Financial Management
• Engineering: All specialisations
• Environmental Sciences: Climate Sciences, Renewable Energy
• Information Sciences: Business Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, Information Management, Information Technology
• Mathematical Sciences: Mathematics, Risk, Statistics
• Natural Sciences: Biosciences, Electronics, Physics
• Social Sciences and Law: Society and Sustainability, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Law
• Arts: Psychology

Application instructions:

• Applications must be completed on StudyTrust’s online application platform and submitted to be considered for a bursary for next year.