Doctoral scholarships

Each Vice-Chancellor’s Doctoral Scholarship consists of an annual stipend of $33,000, plus tuition fees and compulsory student services fee for up to three years.

Who can apply for an AUT Vice-Chancellor’s Doctoral Scholarship

To qualify, you must:

• Be applying as a new doctoral candidate
• Have an unconditional Offer of Place in the AUT doctoral programme
• Have a GPA of 8.0 or above in your most recent qualifying programme completed at a New Zealand tertiary institution
• Māori and domestic Pacific applicants: have a GPA of 7.5 or above from your most recent qualifying programme completed at a New Zealand tertiary institution, and be a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident
• You must enrol into the doctoral programme within three months after being offered the scholarship

Full AUT doctoral scholarship regulations

Each AUT Doctoral Scholarship consists of an annual stipend of $33,000, plus tuition fees and compulsory student services fee for up to three years.

Who can apply for an AUT Doctoral Scholarship

• Open to all applicants including those from countries other than New Zealand who meet the admission requirements for a doctoral programme
• You must have received an Offer of Place for the doctoral programme at AUT

Full AUT doctoral scholarship regulations

Other scholarships you will be considered for

If you’re applying for an AUT Doctoral Scholarship you will also be considered for one of the following faculty or school funded options:

• A full fee scholarship
• Full fees plus an annual stipend equivalent to at least $20,000 or the minimum living cost criteria for Immigration NZ student visa, whichever is the highest

These faculty doctoral scholarships include:

• AUT Doctoral Scholarships – Business Economics and Law
• AUT Doctoral Scholarships – School of Future Environments (Māori and Pacific)
• AUT Doctoral Scholarships – Faculty of Culture and Society (fees only)
• AUT Doctoral Scholarships - Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences (fees only)
• AUT Doctoral Scholarships – School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences

MORE INFORMATION

If you haven’t already applied for admission into the doctoral programme at AUT you must complete both steps below. If you’re a current PhD student at AUT or already have an Offer of Place to start your PhD at AUT, go directly to step 2.

1) Apply for admission into the doctoral programme at AUT

You need to have been accepted into the AUT doctoral programme to qualify for a doctoral scholarship. The admissions process may take up to two months, so you need to apply for admission to the doctoral programme at least two months prior to applying for this scholarship.

If you haven’t completed the process of applying for admission into the doctoral programme, you won’t be eligible to apply for the scholarship.

For information on how to start your application for admission to the doctoral programme email the AUT Graduate Research School at doctoral.and.mphil.admissions@aut.ac.nz

2) Apply for a doctoral scholarship

• Download the AUT doctoral scholarship regulations and familiarise yourself with the eligibility criteria and the conditions of acceptance
• Apply through the AUT online scholarships application portal – you need to register and select which AUT scholarship(s) to apply for
• Upload a two-page statement outlining your proposed research in up to 1,000 words plus references (longer documents won’t be accepted)
• Upload a brief CV (up to three A4 pages)
• Upload your academic transcript(s) for any tertiary study that was completed at a university other than AUT
• Upload a copy of your conditional or unconditional Offer of Place
• Provide details of your two academic referees and, via the scholarship application portal, ask them to submit a confidential report directly to the portal by the closing date
• If your proposed AUT primary supervisor or head of school isn’t one of your referees, provide a letter or evidence of AUT faculty support. If your supervisor is also a referee they need to provide only one statement covering both purposes. Your application will not be provided to the panel unless you can demonstrate that the AUT faculty support your application
• Submit your completed application via the online scholarships application portal once you have completed all the required sections. This can be done before your referees have submitted their reports