Scholarships and financial help

• General information
• Universities
• Māori
• Pasifika
• Teaching and Special education
• Overseas study and for international students

General information

• Break Out is a searchable database of over 2,200 awards, scholarships and grants for individuals in New Zealand. Break Out is New Zealand's most comprehensive source of scholarship information.

• Careers New Zealand provides information and advice to help you make good decisions about work, study and training. It also provides a  list of scholarships, grants and awardslist of scholarships, grants and awards .

Universities

• Universities New Zealand has information on scholarships for study in New Zealand's universities or overseas.

• The Reserve Bank of New Zealand offers scholarships to students who are majoring in Economics, Finance or Banking at Honours, Masters or PhD level. There are also separate scholarships for second year Māori and Pasifika students to encourage study in these fields.

Māori

• The Māori Education Trust provides financial assistance for Māori students undertaking tertiary study.

• The Sir Apirana Ngata Memorial Scholarship is for Māori students studying in any field in any tertiary education institution. Preference is given to descendents of Māori World War One veterans.

• Ngārimu VC and 28th (Māori) Battalion Memorial Scholarships opens 2 May and closes 30 September 2016. These are offered to enterprising, innovative and influential Māori, who meet the criteria and possess characteristics that are identified as being consistent with those of the 28th Māori Battalion.

Pasifika

• Pacific Islands Polynesian Education Foundation scholarships are closed now.

Teaching and special education

• E ach year, TeachNZ, part of the Ministry of Education, offers a limited number of scholarships to encourage people to train as teachers in the areas where there is greatest need.   Details of these scholarships are available on the TeachNZ website .

• Special Education Scholarships and Awards open 1 June 2015 and close between September 2015 and January 2016. There are 13 scholarships and awards in total. Each  award supports you to study a particular qualification enabling you to work with students with special education needs. 

• Study Awards in Māori and Pasifika Education Research are to help emerging education researchers contribute to the body of knowledge in Māori or Pasifika education research in their Masters or PhD. They are provided by the Ministry of Education.

Overseas study and international students

• New Zealand Educated provides scholarship information for both international and New Zealand students.

• Chevening Scholarships , funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and administered by the British Council, are prestigious awards which enable overseas students to study in the United Kingdom. It offers young New Zealanders annual scholarships in three categories: journalism, politics and post-graduate study.

• Fulbright Graduate Student Awards are provided to New Zealanders and Americans who demonstrate academic excellence and leadership potential to undertake postgraduate study in the other country.

• The New Zealand Aid Programme provides support for citizens of some developing countries to undertake vocational training or tertiary level study in their home country, in New Zealand or in the Pacific region.