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Overview
Scholarship type
Merit based
Number of scholarships to award
Multiple
Grant
Up to NZD$15,000 towards tuition fees
Scholarship coverage
- tuition fee reduction
Description
The Vice-Chancellor’s International Excellence Scholarship for India (prior to 2023 named the University of Waikato International Excellence Scholarship) was established in 2015 to promote educational opportunities, foster internationalisation and support talented international applicants who are enrolling as new students into undergraduate or postgraduate programmes1 at the University of Waikato.
Benefits
The Scholarships are tuition fees credits paid in NZD, have a value of up to $15,000 for undergraduate study and up to $10,000 for postgraduate study. Scholarships are awarded to applicants who have demonstrated excellent academic achievement. Successful applicants may be called upon to become global ambassadors for the University of Waikato.
Eligibility
To be eligible, applicants must:
- be a citizen or permanent resident of India.
- be applying to enrol full-time in an undergraduate or postgraduate programme, as a new international student to the University of Waikato.
- have received a conditional or unconditional offer of place from the University of Waikato.
- have a minimum GPA equivalency of B+ in the qualification used to gain entrance to the University of Waikato.
Scholarship requirements
Disciplines
Any
Locations
New Zealand
Nationality
Indian
Study experience required
High school
Age
Unknown
Application
Application deadline
Anytime
Applications can be submitted at any time and decisions will normally be made within 8 to 12 weeks of the time of application. However, applications will not be considered if received within four weeks of the start of each of the university’s three main trimesters (A, B, and C Trimesters) or H Trimester of a limited number of qualifications.
As part of their online submission, applicants must:
upload their conditional or unconditional offer of place from the University of Waikato.
ensure they provide specific details when explaining why they want to study at the University of Waikato and how they will be a global ambassador for the University of Waikato.