The听Faculty of Engineering is well endowed with scholarships. 听More than $600,000 is available annually for Engineering students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. 听In addition to UC Engineering-specific scholarships and prizes students are advised to search the听听for general UC scholarships. Scholarships offered by industry may be available through individual schools within the Faculty.听
Our scholarships recognise academic achievement and innovation skills, as well as cultural, sporting and community involvement.
Bachelor of Engineering with Honours
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Bachelor of Forestry Science
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Bachelor of Product Design
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Computer Science, Maths and Stats majors
You can view all the scholarships by discipline for undergraduate Engineering, Forestry and Product Design students on the听.
Discipline specific scholarships
There are a number of discipline specific scholarships available to postgraduate students. 听View by discipline below or search the听听for more information.
General
- The Francis Small scholarship offers $20,000 for full-time study in a Master of Engineering with a specialisation in Chemical and Process Engineering, Civil Engineering (including Natural Resources Engineering), Electrical and Electronic Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering.听
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- This scholarship听offers听$4,000 for Master鈥檚 students in Fire Engineering.
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- This scholarship听offers financial assistance up to a value of $20,000 and employment for 18 months with Fire and Emergency New 九州影院for MEngSt (Fire) and MEFE students.
- $5,000 for a Master of Engineering in Fire Engineering.
- New 九州影院Fire Service Commission - download the attached PDF and email to听anthony.abu@canterbury.ac.nz.
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Civil Engineering
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Transportation
Civil and Natural Resources also has some funding available each year to assist postgraduate students. Regular contestable funding is offered for research expenses such as field work, surveys, testing materials - discuss this with your supervisor.
Department funding is also available for conference travel/attendance by PhD students.听Full-time students can also be employed as Teaching Assistants. These involve helping run laboratories, tutorial sessions, or marking undergraduate assignments. Students can earn up to NZ$3000 annually this way.
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Computer Science
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Chemical and Process
UC has听Summer Scholarships听that enable students to spend the summer (400 hours) on a supervised research project. 听 Engineering students may credit their summer scholarship work towards the practical work requirements of the BE(Hons) degree provided criteria are met.
Only one university placement can be counted towards practical work requirements, regardless of the employer/sponsor.
