Music Bursaries for students at South African Universities

The SAMRO Foundation invites applications for bursaries for music studies.

The SAMRO Foundation accepts applications from:

• full-time students,
• registered at a South African University, in their
• 2nd, 3rd and 4th years, or honours, masters or doctoral degrees, who are
• Citizens of South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho or Swaziland, who are
• studying for a degree or diploma majoring in music.

Regrettably the SAMRO Foundation is not presently in a position to award bursaries to:

• students from private higher education institutions;
• university students in their 1st year of study;
• students in foundation or bridging programmes.
• Each bursary is worth R10 000.

The closing date for submission of online applications: 31 March 2016

The Application Form:

Before applicants start to fill in the form they should source following digital documents that will need to be uploaded before submitting the application:

• Copy of ID Document
• Proof of 2016 registration
• 2015 Examination results or most recent academic record (university transcript)
• 2 Letters of reference (not older than 3 months)
• For Masters and Doctoral applicants – a 5 to 8 page synopsis of your thesis or dissertation.
• We request that all communications including reference letters be provided in English

Please only submit what has been requested. Additional material will be discarded.

Disqualification criteria: Applications will not be considered if:

• any section of the form is incomplete
• supporting documents are missing
• more than one proposal is submitted per student
• The application is submitted after the deadline of 31 March 2016.

Click Here to ONLINE APPLICATION

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