NSFAS Bursary Funding 2024 – 2025
NSFAS bursary holders are required to work in South Africa for a specified period after graduation. Should the bursary holders are unable to find employment in South Africa within a 3 month period post-graduation, the applicant must apply in writing to NSFAS for a fair exit clause/buy-out clause to be considered.
To get updates on NSFAS activity, visit their official website.
Bursary Requirements and Eligibility
- South African citizens
- Applicants who wish to pursue studies at a public university or TVET college
- Previous applicants who already have an application reference number should not apply
- NOT a recipient of any NSFAS funding for the current academic year
For postgraduate studies, only the students of the following fields are accepted:
- B Tech – Architecture/Architectural Technology
- B Tech – Biokinetics/Biomedical Technology/Biotechnology
- Postgraduate Certificate in Education
- Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting
- Bachelor of Laws/LLB
For a TVET college bursary application:
- Registered at a public South African TVET college
- Registered for the National Certificate (vocational)
- Registered for certain Report 191 (NATED) programmes such as N1-N6 in engineering and N4-N6 in all other fields.
How to Apply and Application Details
Online Application:
- Register online as a user on myNSFAS or re-register a myNSFAS account
- Go to www.nsfas.org.za
- Click on “myNSFAS” tab
- Click on “Register”
- Tick the box to allow NSFAS to verify your details
- Then enter your ID number on the field as it is stated on your ID document
- Type in your full names and surname as per your ID number
- Type in your current email address
- Confirm your email address
- Type in your cellphone number
- Create a password
- Confirm password
- Upload your ID Copy
- Click on register
- An OTP will be sent to the email and cell number provided (this OTP expires after 24 hours)
- Type in the OTP and click submit
- You have now completed your re-registration
- Click the APPLY tab to be directed to the online 2022 application form.
- Prepare certified copies of the following documents:
- South African identity document/card or an unabridged birth certificate
- IDs of parents and/or guardian (death certificate if applicable)
- IDs of each person living in your household
- Any household proof of income (not older than three months)
- Academic results
- University registration documents
- Travel and Accommodation documents (if applicable)
- Proof of marital status (if applicable)
- Download and complete the consent form and fill it in with signatures of all people whose incomes have been declared in the application.
- If you have a disability, download and complete the Disability Annexure A
Offline Application:
- Visit your provincial/office where you will be given a hard copy of the application form to fill in.
- Use black ink to complete the application form and write within the blocks with CAPITAL letters.
- Do not cancel out any text and make sure to write clearly.
- Have parents/guardian sign the consent form.
- Have certified copies of the listed supporting documents and attach them to the application form by stapling before submission.
- Documents must be certified on the front side of the page and should be within 3 months.
- Sign the completed application form and submit it to one of the NYDA assistants.
- The application will be attached with a barcode. Wait for the small acknowledgement of the receipt card with the duplicated barcode.
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Closing Date
The applications for NSFAS funding for the 2023 academic year. now closed.
This year the NSFAS application window was run for a period of four months, starting from 3 August 2020 to 1st December 2020 at 23:59.
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Contact Details
Post: Private Bag X1, Plumstead 7801, South Africa
Address: 10 Brodie Road, House Vincent 2nd Floor, Wynberg, Cape Town 7700
Tel: 0860 067 327
Email: info@nsfas.org.za
