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Accenture Education Trust Scholarship 2025

Midrand Job No. r00218037 Full-time

Job Description

Applications for the Accenture's Education Trust scholarship for 2025 are now open!

The Accenture Education Trust helps students whose family income ranges from R 350 000 - R 1M and NSFAS as well as post-graduate students with a household income of < R300k.

We are looking for students with a strong academic background achieving a cumulative average of above 65% in a study towards Technology-aligned degrees (see below list) at select tertiary institutions across South Africa.

Entry Criteria:

Scholarship Disciplines: Applications will be considered from students who wish to major in one of the following disciplines at one of the universities listed below.
 

BSC

  • Computer Science

  • Computer Engineering

  • Industrial Engineering

  • Information and Knowledge Systems

  • Information Systems

  • Mechanical with Mechatronics Engineering

BSC (Eng)

  • Information Technology

  • Electronic /Electrical (Light Current)

BCOM

  • Informatics

  • Information Systems

  • Stats and Data Science

  • Computer Science

DATA ENGINEERING

  • Big Data Analytics

  • Post Graduate Diploma in Data Analytics and Business Intelligence

BENG

  • Electronic or Electrical Comp Eng

  • Information Engineering

  • Micro Electronic Engineering

UNIVERSITIES:

  • Rhodes University

  • Stellenbosch University

  • University of Cape Town

  • University of Johannesburg

  • University of Pretoria

  • University of Witwatersrand

  • University of Kwazulu-Natal

  • University of Western Cape

The Accenture Education Trust helps students whose family income ranges from R 350 000 - R 1M and NSFAS as well as post-graduate students with a household income of < R300k.

We are looking for students with a strong academic background achieving a cumulative average of above 65% in a study towards Technology-aligned degrees (see below list) at select tertiary institutions across South Africa.

The scholarship programme Accenture offers covers the following expenses: registration fees, tuition fees, examination fees, meals, residence, book allowance (for prescribed books) and a laptop. Beyond that we offer a holistic support programme for our scholars, which has these key elements and is underpinned by mentorship

1.Emotional and social​ support tools

2.Academic & Career​ support tools

3.Financial​ support tools

4.Mentorship Programme


So if you are a high achiever in your second, third, fourth or Honours year of study, please read on for full criteria and process we want to hear from you.

Qualifications

Please attach the below 5 documents in order for your application to be considered. Kindly attach all 5 pre-requisite documents in the CV/Resume attachment box.

1) Certified copy of identity document (Application Pre-requisite)

2) Certified full academic record including any mid-year exam results/progress report (Application Pre-requisite)

3) Certified copy of grade 12 results (Application Pre-requisite)

4) Certified copy of proof of parents’/guardian’s earnings if <R 600K AND Latest Income tax return of parents/guardian’s earnings <R 1M (Application Pre-requisite)

5) Copy of your curriculum vitae (Application Pre-requisite)

Application Steps

Step 1 - Register/ Create an account by using your email address and create a password.

Step 2 - Start application. Please choose Apply Manually.

Step 3 - You will land on the My Information page. Please populate all fields and note that family name is your surname.

Step 4 - You will land on the My Experience page. In this section kindly detail any part time work experience i.e. Tutoring, promotions, e.t.c. Please note that GPA indicates academic average

Step 5 - You will land on Application Questions. These are standard and only for the purpose of the scholarship application please answer these as follows: Q1 - Yes; Q2 - No; Q3- Yes; Q4 - Yes; and Q5 -No.

Step 6 - You will land on a Voluntary Disclosure page. Here, complete all the required fields

Step 7 - You will land on a Summary Page where you can view your application and click Submit to finalize your submission

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