Old Mutual Imfundo Trust Scholarship for South African Students 2025

Applications are now open for the 2025 Old Mutual Imfundo Trust Scholarship. This scholarship programme finances deserving black students’ tertiary education. It aims to develop black investment professionals, with a bias towards black women. This full scholarship covers tuition, books, accommodation and meals, as well as providing spending money.

Requirements

To be considered for a scholarship, you must be:

• A South African citizen
• Currently in grade 12 or in your first year at university (with the exception of postgraduate Climate Studies)
• Grade 12 applicants must have achieved an average of at least 70% in their mid-year examinations, with a minimum of 70% in Mathematics and 70% in English FAL or 60% in English HL
• First year university applicants must have achieved an average of at least 65% in their mid-year examinations
• Applicants from rural and township backgrounds will be given preference.

Benefits

• Tuition and accommodation costs are covered in full
• You receive a book and spending allowance
• You have access to ICAS for psychosocial support
• You will be under a mentorship programme from 3^rd year onwards.

egrees funded

• Business, Commerce, Finance and Management Sciences/Studies
• Computer Science and related qualifications (e. g. Computational Thinking)
• Data Science
• Climate Studies (postgraduate)
• Engineering

Our Partner Universities: 

• Stellenbosch University
• University of Cape Town
• University of the Witwatersrand
• University of Johannesburg
• University of KwaZulu-Natal
• University of Pretoria