Applications are now open for the 2025 Accenture Education Trust Scholarship. Click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
Opportunity Details
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. Accenture is 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
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
BSC (Eng)
BCOM
DATA ENGINEERING
BENG
UNIVERSITIES:
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)
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