| Scholarship Name | Scholarship Information |
| Bickerton-Widdowson Trust Memorial Scholarship | Value: up to $2,500 for one year Details: Open to any student of the School of Fine Arts. Closing date: 01 November |
| Brian Gaynor Initiative - Scholarship in Journalism | Value: Financial assistance up to $5,000 for one year Details: Applicants must be in the final year of study towards an undergraduate degree undertaking study relevant to a career in journalism (including business writing, journalism or communications); and show an intent to build a career in business journalism. Applicants must be Aotearoa New Zealand citizens, permanent residents or holders of a valid refugee visa. NB: this is a Universities NZ scholarship. Closing date: 31 May |
| Catherine Sinclaire Lees Memorial Grant in Art History & Theory | Value: Financial assistance at a value of $1,000 Details: Supports students of Art History and Theory at UC who have a serious health condition. Applicants must be enrolled in at least one 100-, 200-, or 300-level course in Art History and Theory at the University. Applicants must have a serious health condition, excluding a Specific Learning Difficulty, that qualifies them for registration with the University's Student Accessibility Service, and/or Special Consideration Closing date: 31 March |
| Catherine Sinclaire Lees Memorial Grant in French | Value: Financial assistance at a value of $1,000 Details: Supports students of French at UC who have a serious health condition. Applicants must be enrolled in at least one 100-, 200-, or 300-level course in French at the University. Applicants must have a serious health condition, excluding a Specific Learning Difficulty, that qualifies them for registration with the University's Student Accessibility Service, and/or Special Consideration. Closing date: 31 March |
| Charles & Austin Henry Alabaster Scholarship | Value: Financial assistance with the costs associated with university study, at a value of $2,500 for one year Details: Supports students studying in classical literature at UC. Applicants must be enrolled in an undergraduate Greek and Latin course. Closing date: 31 October |
| Energy Education Trust Undergraduate Scholarship - University of Canterbury | Value: Financial assistance at a value of $5,000 for one year Details: To support undergraduate and postgraduate honours students at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury who have an interest in the energy needs of Aotearoa New Zealand. Applicants must be enrolled full-time at the University in the third or fourth year of a programme for an undergraduate degree or a postgraduate honours degree with a major in an Economics, Engineering, or Science subject, or in another subject of relevance to the energy needs of Aotearoa New Zealand. Applicants must be Aotearoa New Zealand citizens or permanent residents. Closing date: 31 March |
Farina Thompson Charitable Trust Music Scholarship (currently under review) | Value: Financial assistance at a value of $10,000 for one year Details: To assist and encourage students enrolled in a Music programme of study at UC, towards a career in music. Applicants must be enrolled, or intending to enrol, full-time at the University in a degree programme with a major in Music. Preference is given to applicants who intend to enrol for, or are enrolled for, an MusB(Hons), BA(Hons) in Music, MMus, MA in Music, DMA, or PhD in Music. Applicants must be Aotearoa New Zealand citizens or permanent residents. Closing date: 01 November
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| Grant Lingard Scholarship | Value: Tuition fees at the domestic rate, for one year. Details: To reward the academic achievement of full-time students about to enter the final year of a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in the School of Fine Arts at UC. Closing date: 31 October |
| Harry Ellwood Scholarship in Music | Value: Financial assistance to the value of $2,000 for one year. Details: To support students of violin, viola, cello, or double-bass in Te Kura Puoro | School of Music at UC. At the time of accepting the scholarship, a recipient must have already successfully completed at least one year of such study in the school. Closing date: N/A - no application required. All students who have been enrolled in a course that involved the study of violin, viola, cello, or double bass, and who will be progressing to a further year of such study at UC, will be considered for the scholarship. |
| Jane Rounick Memorial Award | Value: Financial assistance at a value of $3,000. Details: To support and encourage excellence within students studying in their final year of a BFA, BFA(Hons) or an MFA at UC. Applicants for the award will need to include a submission of recent sculptural work and proposal for work to be undertaken for that year. Closing date: Applications must be made to the Senior Lecturer in Sculpture early in Term 1 in the year of the award. |
| John McMillan Scholarship | Value: Financial assistance at a value of $3,000 per annum for up to two years. Details: To recognise academic achievement in subjects based on pure and applied mathematics at the undergraduate level and supports students of Economics and Finance at UC. Preference is given to applicants whose transcripts show a strong background in Mathematics or in Statistics or other areas of applied mathematics. Applicants must be in the final year of a programme at the University for an undergraduate degree with a major in either Economics or Finance (or both). Closing date: 31 March |
| The Okamatsu / Kimura-Steven Family Scholarship | Value: Financial assistance at the value of $2,000 Details: Supports travel to Japan, to enable the holder to advance their study of and acquaintance with the culture and people of Japan. Applicants must be undergraduate students enrolled at the University of Canterbury in one or more 200- or 300-level courses in Japanese language; and may not have previously lived in Japan. Closing date: 31 March |
| Te Whare Pūrakau Scholarship | Value: Financial assistance at the value of $3,000 Details: To support Māori and Pacific students who are studying towards an Indigenous Narrative minor in the Bachelor of Digital Screen with Honours at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury. Applicants must have whakapapa Māori and/or Pacific, and/or Indigenous and must be enrolling in TAKI101 in the year of tenure. Closing date: 31 January |
| UC Mathematics & Statistics Scholarship | Value: Financial assistance at the value of: (a) $5,000 (Category A awards); (b) $2,500 (Category B awards); (c) $1,000 (Category C awards) Details: To recognise and support high-achieving 200-, 300-, or 400-level students majoring in Applied Data Science, Computational and Applied Mathematical Sciences, Data Science, Financial Engineering, Mathematics, or Statistics at the University of Canterbury. Applicants must be enrolled in at least 60 points of the above courses (not including any thesis course). Closing date: 31 March |
