Arts, Fine Arts & Music Undergraduate Scholarships

Purpose: 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.

Value: Tuition fees at the domestic rate, for one year.

Closing date: 31 October

Purpose: To promote the study and practice of Fine Arts in the studio area of painting and drawing at the University of Canterbury.

Value: Financial assistance to a value of up to $5,000.

Closing date: 30 September

Purpose: 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.

Value: Financial assistance at a value of $3,000 for one year.

Closing date: Applications must be made to the Senior Lecturer in Sculpture early in Term 1 in the year of the award.

Purpose: To recognise the academic achievement in subjects based on pure and applied Mathematics at the undergraduate level and supports students of Economics, Finance and Financial Engineering at UC. 

Value: Financial assistance at a value of $3,000 per annum for up to two years.

Closing date: 31 March

Purpose: 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 UC in one or more 200- or 300-level courses in Japanese language; and may not have previously lived in Japan.

Value: Financial assistance at the value of $2,000 for one year.

Closing date: 31 March

Purpose: To support Māori and Pacific students who are studying towards an Indigenous Narrative minor in the Bachelor of Digital Screen with Honours at UC. Applicants must be enrolling in TAKI101 in the year of tenure.

Value: Financial assistance at the value of $3,000 for one year.

Closing date: 31 January

Purpose: 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 UC.  

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)

Closing date: 31 March - This scholarship is not available for 2026

Purpose: To support Pacific students undertaking a minor in Pacific Studies in their first year of full-time study in an undergraduate or postgraduate degree programme at UC.

Value: Up to $8,000 towards tuition fees

Closing date: 31 October