Wellington Graduate Award

Other eligibility requirements

The Wellington Graduate Award encourages undergraduate students to proceed to graduate study and to research degrees. The University offers Wellington Graduate Awards to international students intending to embark upon an Honours degree or a Master's degree Part 1.

The Scholarship value is $5,000 and will be paid directly towards tuition fees. International students will be liable to pay the difference between the full international student fee and the domestic tuition fee.

Who is eligible?

Applicants must be intending to enrol full time in their first postgraduate degree programme at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington. To be paid the scholarship applicants must be fully enrolled at in a full-year programme by the start of Trimester 1 in the following year of application, in at least 90 points of coursework in either:

• a postgraduate Honours degree; or
• a Master's degree taken via coursework with at least 90 points at 400 or 500 level and any thesis/research component in that year being less than 90 points; or
• a postgraduate diploma that is recognised as Part 1 of a two year Master’s degree, under the same conditions as for that Master’s degree.

These scholarships are not available for post experience or vocational Master's degree, such as the MBA, MIM or MIS, and are not available to Honours students undertaking or intending to undertake an undergraduate programme such as LLB (Hons) or BE (Hons).