Sports Bursaries
Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ Sport awards a limited number of bursaries each year to deserving student athletes.
APPLICANTS
Bursary awards are made possible by funding from the university itself, and by the generosity of alumni, the business and non-profit communities, and past Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ sports achievers. Applications for sports bursaries for the 2027 academic year, open on the 1st of April 2026 and close on 30th of September 2026. Please complete the online form . Please note that only online applications will be accepted. Queries may be directed to the relevant sports officer (list of contact details available under the contact us tab).
We have allowed applicants who have missed the deadline to complete the Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ Sports Bursary Form to apply for Late Sport Bursary Applications. The potential awarding of bursaries for late applicants will be funding dependent and given consideration in February. Please complete the online form
Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ Sport also offers a full programme of academic support - academic monitoring and regulation - to ensure its bursary-holders meet their academic commitments as well. Bursary-holders may arrange a one-on-one consultation with Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ Sport bursary-academic support officer Rezana Hoosain by e-mail only.
DONORS
Picture a stadium, a heaving crowd of 20 000-strong, stomping the stands and roaring in unison over commentators breathless and babbling as elite athletes take aim, strike, score!
At Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ University, our blood is blue and gold. In our stadiums and pools, on our fields and courts, and across physical and virtual multi-sports terrains, our elite academic athletes exemplify the academic excellence for which Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ is internationally renowned, and they embody an ethos of holistic intellectual and physical development, for good – both their own and others.
The addition of a new state-of-the-art, high-performance facility, will see the new Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ Brian and Dorothy Zylstra Sports Complex deliver world-class infrastructure for elite athletes, coaches, sports and therapeutics scientists, and sporting events. It offers Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ies and our city’s sports people the opportunity to live, breathe, learn, play, transform, and research sport.
To sustain and advance the diversity of sports at Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ that deliver well-rounded citizens to the world, our student academic athletes need your support.
We invite you to don your blue and gold, grab your vuvuzela, gather the cheerleaders, and invest in Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ Sport. As the Olympians say, ‘Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together’. As the Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ies say, ‘For good’.