Overview
Scholarship type
Number of scholarships to award
Grant
Scholarship coverage
- tuition fee reduction
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education is the largest international graduate water education facility in the world. Based in Delft, the Netherlands, IHE Delft confers fully accredited MSc degrees and PhD degrees in collaboration with Dutch partner universities.
The FirstRand Foundation, the corporate foundation of South African financial institution FirstRand Limited, has entered into a five-year partnership with IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, to allow for an outstanding South African student to undertake postgraduate study at IHE Delft in the Netherlands. This will be the second year of the partnership.
The scholarship will provide full funding for one South African student each year.
Applications for the FirstRand IHE Delft Water Education Scholarship are online only. FirstRand and IHE Delft are looking for the best applicant who will benefit deeply from the opportunity and contribute to South Africa on their return.
The FirstRand Foundation will conduct the interviewing and selection process, which will run concurrently with the FirstRand International Postgraduate Scholarship programme, based on academic excellence, leadership ability, community involvement and the candidate’s potential to be a destiny changer.
The deadline to apply for academic admission is 7 March.