The North-West University is committed to functioning as a unitary, integrated, multi-campus university that enables equity, redress and globally competitive teaching and research across all three of our campuses. Our core activities, teaching-learning and research, are intertwined with community engagement and innovation in our eight faculties, most of which serve our contact students and a select few that also include our distance-learning students.
Full-time undergraduate, Honours, and MA students of language studies at North-West University are eligible to apply. The application form is available as a web-based fill-in form on their website, and additional documentation will be required for submission.
Upon successful submission, the application will be sent to the bursary administrator, and academic records will be requested at a later stage. Contact information for academic administration at each campus is provided on the website.
You have to be registered for a BA, BA Hons or MA programme at NWU in 2025
Relevant subject areas for consideration are Language Practice, Setswana, Sesotho, Afrikaans, English, South African Sign Language and Language Technology
You have to achieve 60% in one of the relevant language subject areas
Honours students should take at least two linguistic-based modules
Postgraduate students' topics should be linguistics-based
2025 proof of registration
Your 2025 proof of registration can be downloaded from the NWU website. You can follow the steps below on this page to download your own registration document. Alternatively, you may contact academic administration and request an electronic copy from them.
Upload the downloaded electronic copy to your application. DO NOT create a new image of this file and upload an image of the document.
How to apply
For your online application, you will only need to upload two of these supporting documents:
A certified copy of your ID (not older than three months)
A copy of your NWU 2025 proof of registration
The tertiary academic record will be requested from applicants once all first semester marks have been finalised on the university's system. You will be contacted personally to submit this document. You do not have to upload it upon completing your application.
The progress report for postgraduate students will be sent to MA applicants for completion by their supervisor.
Supporting documentation
The following supporting documentation is needed in order to completely process your application.
A certified copy of your ID (not older than three months)
A copy of your NWU 2025 proof of registration
Complete tertiary academic record
Progress report signed by supervisor (this applies to MA students only)
