Prestigious scholarships

The Freemasons Scholarships are to help students who are active in their community complete their university education. From requirements to selection, find out more about Freemasons University Scholarships.

Fulbright New Zealand General Graduate Awards are for promising New Zealand graduate students who plan to undertake postgraduate study or research at US institutions in any field. Learn more about Fulbright scholarships at UC. 

The Lord Rutherford Memorial Research Fellowship supports UC graduates with a background in Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, or a related subject, to study further at an overseas institution. Find out more about this scholarship.

Established in 1903, the Rhodes Scholarship programme is the oldest international scholarship programme in the world and one of the most prestigious. It offers 100 fully-funded scholarships each year for postgraduate study at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Find out more about the Rhodes scholarship. 

The scholarship is to enable PhD students of Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury to conduct research at the University of Cambridge, and to thereby foster links between the academics of the two universities

This scholarship helps UC graduates with a background in Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics (or a related subject), or in a medical/health-related field, to study further in Great Britain. Find out more about the Sims Empire Scholarship.

These scholarships support graduates of the University of Canterbury to study for a University of Oxford One Year Master's Course Degree. The scholarship covers fees and provides living expenses, ideally with 'preferred college' Christ Church, Oxford for up to one year.

The funds for this scholarship are provided by the estate of Alan Courtney Tytheridge, a student at Canterbury College who lived in Japan for several decades. The Tytheridge Travelling Scholarship in Arts enables UC Arts graduates to study further overseas. Find out more.