WITS-TUB-UNILAG Urban Lab Master Scholarships 2025: (Deadline 30 September, 2024)

Applications are open for the WITS-TUB-UNILAG Urban Lab Master Scholarships 2025. The WITS-TUB-UNILAG Programme is offering Masters Scholarships for studies at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand.

The scholarship programme focuses on four innovation areas which address SDG implementation in urban areas:

• Politics and policy of the urban
• Understanding complex urban systems
• Managing change processes
• Co-producing knowledge between theory and practice.

Scholarship

The masters scholarship covers the duration of one academic year. The scholarship includes:

• Full tuition fee
• Monthly stipend covering living expenses
• Travel from home country/place of origin
• Student medical aid (12 months)

Eligibility

• The programme is interdisciplinary, but they place a special emphasis on a portfolio that is intertransdisciplinary, cutting across the fields of development planning, housing, sustainable urban development, urban management, and urban design.
• Candidates in architecture and urban planning as well as in the humanities, cultural studies, urban geography, or social sciences with a focus on urban studies and planning as well as candidates in related fields such as landscape architecture are also welcome to apply.
• Citizens from South Africa and permanent residents are eligible to apply.
• Applicants must hold a bachelor’s degree that is equivalent to an honours degree (NQF level 8) in the South African Qualification System (SAQA). There is no need to apply for SAQA if your bachelor’s degree was obtained in a South African university.
• Applicants must possess the requisite qualifications for admission into the MUS (UM).
• Wits University is an English medium university. The programme language is English. Proficiency in any other language necessary for their proposed geographic location of their fieldwork is recommended.
• There is no age limit applying to the scholarships for study purposes. However, at the time of the application, no more than 6 years should have passed since an applicant graduated from his/ her previous studies.
• Award of the scholarships is based on a combination of merit, distribution across the continent and, gender balance.
• Study into the MUS programme is on a full-time basis for 11 months. Selected students will not participate in any form of employment during this period.

Deadline: 30 September, 2024

Application

Due date to apply for admission into the programme is September 30, 2024. Applications for the scholarship must be submitted by e-mail to Ms Taki Sithagu, taki.sithagu@wits.ac.za by October 31, 2024.

Download the application form

For more information, visit Wits-TUB-UNILAG Urban Lab Programme.