NZ$33,000.00 (US$ 19,685)
Fee waiver/discount
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Postgraduate
Auckland University of Technology
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Scholarship consists of an annual stipend of NZ $33,000, plus tuition fees and compulsory student services fee for up to three years
All International
Applicable to all genders
All types of delivery mode
Only selective applicants are considered
Full Time
All intakes
Academic excellence
Open to all applicants including those from countries other than New Zealand who meet the admission requirements for a doctoral programme
You must have received an Offer of Place for the doctoral programme at AUT
If you鈥檙e applying for an AUT Doctoral Scholarship you will also be considered for one of the following faculty or school funded options:
A full fee scholarship
Full fees plus an annual stipend equivalent to at least NZ $20,000 or the minimum living cost criteria for Immigration NZ student visa, whichever is the highest
These faculty doctoral scholarships include:
AUT Doctoral Scholarships 鈥 Business Economics and Law
AUT Doctoral Scholarships 鈥 School of Future Environments (M膩ori and Pacific)
AUT Doctoral Scholarships 鈥 Faculty of Culture and Society (fees only)
AUT Doctoral Scholarships - Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences (fees only)
AUT Doctoral Scholarships 鈥 School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences
Students are shortlisted based on their
You need to apply separately for this scholarship
You need to have been accepted into the AUT doctoral programme to qualify for a doctoral scholarship. The admissions process may take up to two months, so you need to apply for admission to the doctoral programme at least two months prior to applying for this scholarship.
If you haven鈥檛 completed the process of applying for admission into the doctoral programme, you won鈥檛 be eligible to apply for the scholarship.
For information on how to start your application for admission to the doctoral programme email the AUT Graduate Research School
Applications must be submitted via the online AUT Scholarship Application portal and open one month prior to any of the three closing dates.
Closing dates:
1 March
15 July
1 November
Apply through the AUT online scholarships application portal 鈥 you need to register and select which AUT scholarship(s) to apply for
Upload a two-page statement outlining your proposed research in up to 1,000 words plus references (longer documents won鈥檛 be accepted)
Upload a brief CV (up to three A4 pages)
Upload your academic transcript(s) for any tertiary study that was completed at a university other than AUT
Upload a copy of your conditional or unconditional Offer of Place
Provide details of your two academic referees and, via the scholarship application portal, ask them to submit a confidential report directly to the portal by the closing date
If your proposed AUT primary supervisor or head of school isn鈥檛 one of your referees, provide a letter or evidence of AUT faculty support. If your supervisor is also a referee they need to provide only one statement covering both purposes. Your application will not be provided to the panel unless you can demonstrate that the AUT faculty support your application
Submit your completed application via the online scholarships application portal once you have completed all the required sections. This can be done before your referees have submitted their reports