2025 Scholarships in South Africa for African/International Students

The Prescient Securities Postgraduate Scholarship has been established to provide support to Honours students from a historically disadvantaged background, who will register for full-time study at the University of Cape Town, in one of the following (or related) areas below Application Deadline: 15th November 2019 Eligible Countries: South Africa To be taken at (country): University of Cape Town, South Africa About the Award: South African candidates who intend to register toward the first year of a Master’s degree at UCT in 2020 in any of the following disciplines: Actuarial Science, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Statistical Sciences, Mathematical Finance, or Financial Markets and Risk Management. Note that only students in these disciplines with a planned research direction or project that incorporates finance-related research will be considered Type: Postgraduate (Masters) Eligibility: Applicants must have achieved an average of 60% in a relevant honours and undergraduate degree. Applicants must be accepted (or provisionally accepted) by the UCT academic department. Selection Criteria: The successful candidate will be required to: register for full-time study in the relevant department; comply with University’s approved policies, procedures and practices on postgraduate funding; repay to the University of Cape Town the value of the award should he/she deregister or if satisfactory academic progress is not made, or if any of the conditions of award are not met; meet with the sponsor of the scholarship with view to undertaking employment with Prescient following completion of his/her studies, and provide regular reports on the study being undertaken. The University reserves the right not to make any award and/or to change the conditions of award. Number of Awardees: Not specified Value of Scholarship: The value of the scholarship is R165,000 per annum. Duration of Scholarship: The tenure of the award is 1 or 2 years for a Master’s degree (depending on the academic programme to be undertaken) with renewals after the first year contingent on the degree programme and on satisfactory progress. How to Apply: Applicants are required to submit the following: completed application form; letter of application, including your motivation and explaining in what way your planned course of study is or may be finance and/or investment/asset related; CV of no longer than ONE A4 page, and which must provide detail of previous studies, any previous employment and evidence of leadership roles in both of these areas; certified copies of all tertiary academic transcripts ; Two letters of reference from ACADEMICS who have taught her/him at University. COMPLETE APPLICATION PACKAGES MUST BE EMAILED AS ONE PDF TO fellowships@uct.ac.za. Please use the following reference when emailing your electronic application: “Prescient Investment Management: Student name” BY NO LATER THAN 15 November 2019 For enquiries please contact: 021 650 2211 OR email: pgfunding@uct.ac.za Visit Scholarship Webpage for details

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