Absa Fellowship Programme 2026 for Undergraduate Studies in South Africa (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: September 10, 2025

Applications are open for the Absa Fellowship Programme 2026. The Absa Fellowship Programme is extra than simply an educational scholarship. It is a transformative initiative geared toward fostering entrepreneurship and management, and empowering younger expertise to turn into changemakers in their communities and industries.

Aligned with Absa’s dedication to monetary inclusion and sustainability, this programme equips future leaders with the talents, information and mindset to actively drive development and innovation in Africa. Every 12 months, they select the 50 candidates who display potential, ardour and goal. Selected fellows will emerge as leaders in the personal or public sectors or as entrepreneurs, ready to make a optimistic affect in their communities, advance sustainability and switch prospects into actuality.

Benefits

• The programme gives funding to college students to study on a full-time foundation on the public universities in South Africa.
• The Absa Fellowship covers the tutorial and management programme value. The tutorial value will embrace full tuition, meals, college/college-authorized lodging, laptop computer, books, training gear, month-to-month knowledge and stipend in addition to scholar medical support cowl the place required. The management programme value will embrace on-line masterclasses, assessments, learner modules and guides, entry to emotional-wellness check-in classes, tutorial tutoring and mentoring by Absa’s management and different business consultants.

Eligibility

They are searching for younger, rising leaders who meet the next standards:

• Age: Between 18 and 25 years previous.
• Academic report: A move mark of 65% or increased is required. (Applicants might submit both their June 2025 preliminary outcomes or closing matric outcomes.)
• Field of study: Applicants must be enrolling as a primary-12 months undergraduate scholar at a public college in South Africa in 2026 and pursuing a level in:
  • Commerce
  • Humanities and social sciences
  • Science (together with well being science, however excluding medical or veterinary research), know-how, engineering and arithmetic
  • Creative arts
  • Digital/Data design.

Application

Important: The application should be submitted in the title of the potential scholar who will probably be attending the tertiary establishment, not in the title of a guardian or guardian.

Applications shut on 10 September 2025. No late functions will probably be accepted, and functions obtained after the deadline is not going to be thought-about.

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For extra data, see FAQ and go to Absa Fellowship Programme.