The University of Otago offers entrance scholarships which can help pay for University study or residential accommodation expenses. Entrance scholarships are available for full-time, first-year undergraduate study and are designed to support students as they begin their university education.
Otago entrance scholarships recognise a wide range of achievement and circumstances, including academic excellence, leadership, ethnicity, financial hardship, disability, and excellence in sporting or cultural pursuits.
Applications open on 1 July each year. Closing dates vary, with many closing on 15 August. Your application must be received before 11:59pm on the relevant closing date to be considered.
Entrance scholarships are not normally available if you have studied more than 0.4 EFTS at any university or tertiary institution at degree-level or higher (one 18-point paper is roughly equivalent to 0.15 EFTS). However, this does not apply if the university papers you studied were undertaken while you were still enrolled in secondary school.
If you have not previously studied at degree-level or higher, then you may apply as long as you meet other eligibility criteria
Entrance scholarship results
If your application is successful, you will receive one scholarship offer, and this offer will be for the highest scholarship the University has deemed fit to award.
For New Frontiers Scholarships, the University will make upgraded scholarship offers after final NCEA results are released.
Further information