We would like to announce that the 2023 UNISA Postgraduate Bursary Application period closing date has been extended to 2 February 2023 for all UNISA PG Diploma, Honours, Master’s, and Doctoral bursaries.

The core purpose is to provide financial support to postgraduate students through a student-centred platform and assist the university in attracting and supporting postgraduate students in delivering quality research outputs.

Important Notices:

• Bursary outcomes:
  • PG Diploma and Honours final outcomes will be communicated in the 1st week of April 2023 after the closing date of registration 31 March 2023
    • All immediate PG Diploma and Honours rejections have been recently communicated to students' mylife email account, kindly visit your mylife email account to check if you were rejected, if not rejected please note the above communication update.
  • Master's and Doctoral final outcomes will be communicated in the 1st week of April 2023 after the closing date of registration 31 March 2023
• Please note that honours applicants who experienced "index 1, size error" system error, the error has been resolved and all eligible students may continue to apply
• PG Diploma and Honours applicants please note:
  • Our ICT department is addressing the current error that some students are experiencing, however it is important to note that students who do not have a UNISA NQF level 7 undergraduate qualification and or do not have a PG Diploma/ Honours application to study with UNISA in 2023 are not eligible for the bursary and will therefore be rejected by the application system.
• Please note the 2023 PG Bursary applications will be inactive when the University closes on 21 December 2022, and will be re-active when the university opens on 5 January 2023 until the closing date of the bursary applications.
  
  • 2023 PG Bursary application app guide for PGD/ Honours students is now available, Click here to download
  • 2023 PG Bursary application app guide for M&D students is now available, Click here to download
• 2023 PG Bursary application period has been moved to 1 December 2022 to January 2023, due to system updates.
• Watch the 2023 UNISA Postgraduate Bursary Q&A Sessions live recordings:
  
  • 2023 UNISA PG Diploma/ Honours Q&A Session Click here to watch
  • 2023 UNISA Master’s and Doctoral Q&A Session Click here to watch
    

• To all 2022 Approved & Awarded students:
  • Ensure that you have submitted your banking details through the link sent to your mylife email account and have submitted your refund/ allowance claim form to DSF-POSTGRD@unisa.ac.za
  • Contact DSF-POSTGRD@unisa.ac.za for enquiries relating to the processing of bursary refunds/allowances,payment of funds and ensure that you submit your bursary contract as instructed in the outcome/ awarding communication.
  • It is important to note that no student’s account will be settled, and nobursary refunds/allowances will be processed until the Bursary contracts have been submitted/received and processed.

For more information visit:

• Master's and Doctoral Bursary
• PG Diploma and Honours Bursary