Scholarships for 2026 are open now!
The Whitireia Foundation has launched its scholarships for study in 2026.
Applications for Whitireia Foundation Scholarships are open to domestic ākonga studying with Whitireia and WelTec | Te Pūkenga in 2026. Please ensure you submit your CV and any progress report (see below) in your application. The close down date for applications has been extended beyond our usual due date, to 13 March 2026.
Click here to access progress report
Click here to access the 2026 guide and application form
If you are currently studying at Whitireia or WelTec and are returning in 2026, you’ll need to ensure your Tutor or Programme Manager completes a Progress Report (link above).
Feel free to send any queries our way, just send a message through this website, or contact Whitireia’s Information & Enrolment Centre – details here.
Our June Scholarships Awards Ceremony for our 2025 intake was attended by proud whānau, students and their generous Sponsors. It is wonderful to be able to celebrate their scholarship achievement with them in person. We have met many of you, and we love introducing you to your sponsors. We and our sponsors are always delighted to read the letters that arrive all through the year, describing what a difference a scholarship makes!
Congratulations to all who received Awards in 2025. We very much hope that some of you who are continuing your study, will apply again for 2026.
If you are thinking of applying, take some time to check the application criteria below, and if it sounds like you, then go ahead and apply!
Whitireia Foundation scholarships are open to domestic students planning to study full-time at Whitireia WelTec’s Porirua, Petone and Wellington campuses.
Our scholarships provide financial assistance for tuition fees, unless otherwise specified. Some scholarships cover tools and other relevant materials, such as laptops and software.
In addition to a financial (or equivalent) award, some students may have paid work experience opportunities.
Please check out the documents below if you are considering making an application for our 2026 scholarships.
Take a look at our Do’s and Don’ts Guide to help you in making your application.
Sponsors
We awarded more than 40 scholarships in 2025, worth over $100,000, with more to be awarded for 2026.
The Foundation gratefully acknowledges the support of all our sponsors, many who have supported Whitireia and the Foundation for a number of years. These committed sponsors include Ngāti Toa, law firm Ford Sumner, Tu Ora Compass Health, Porirua City Council, Maude Legal, Alpha NZ Ltd, Graduate Women (Wellington) Charitable Trust, the Kirk-Burnnand family, Brittons House Movers Ltd, Gee & Hickton, Red Wolf Security, and Foster + Melville Architects. Thanks to our newer sponsors Aspiring Walls, Focus Projects Ltd, Montage Interiors, James and Janet Goggin, and J A Russell Ltd, for continuing to be on board with us! Thanks also to those joining us for the first time in 2026, Niche Group, Inspire Plumbing & Drainage, and to L.T. McGuinness returning as a Sponsor.
We are hugely grateful to the Nikau Foundation for supporting TEN students in 2025 and again in 2026, carrying on the work started by the Porirua Trust. We are thrilled to announce the continuation of the Geraldine Lyndhurst Scholarship is now in its fifth year – with grateful thanks to the Geraldine Lyndhurst estate and to her family for this generous bequest. Dr Sally Hassell is continuing her generous sponsorship of women continuing their study in Construction, Engineering or IT at WelTec. Also continuing their sponsorships are the Waite and Macdonald families, and Marion Walton. Details of all our sponsors are on the Application Guide.
We are so grateful to you all.
Selection criteria
The selection committee considers three main criteria when considering applicants and selecting recipients. These are:
- demonstration of a genuine desire and ability to succeed in the chosen area of study
- financial circumstances
- personal achievement
Complete your application and email to:
scholarships@whitireia.ac.nz
Applications must be received by the closing
date 13 March 2026.
Good luck!
Scholarships are presented to successful recipients at an awards ceremony in the early part of the second semester.
General scholarship information
If you’d like to talk about your application, and for any pre-enrolment information, please contact the Information & Enrolment Centre – call 0800 788 399 or email scholarships@whitireia.ac.nz.
Click here to read more about enrolment on the Whitireia website. Click here to find out more about Scholarships at Whitireia Weltec.
Applicants must:
» Be over 16 years old
» Be a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident
» Be applying to enrol in a full-time, full year programme of study at Whitireia or WelTec, subject to stated conditions, including if your course is delivered on a Whitireia campus in 2026
» Meet the entry requirements for their desired
programme of study
The Whitireia Foundation Scholarships 
Hi there ,
I was wondering if you could give me more information in regards to available scholarships. I am looking to studying at Whitireia in degree in ECE in 2015.
Kind regards
Avasa
Hi Avasa,
Good to hear you’re keen to do ECE at Whitireia in 2015. You can find out about the Foundation’s scholarships by going to the page ‘apply for a scholarship’ – make sure you check out the ‘do’s and don’ts’ page for tips on applying. There are other scholarship providers you may want to check out too – you can access these on Breakout or Fundview through the Funding Information Service http://www.fis.org.nz/ (free on the computers at Porirua library). We’ll be putting the 2015 application form on whitireiafoundation.com in July/August, with applications closing mid-October 2014. For more information, call Whitireia 0800 944 847, email scholarships@whitireia.ac.nz or go to the Whitireia website http://www.whitireia.ac.nz/student_services/Pages/Scholarships/
Best of luck with your scholarship and your studies 🙂
Robyn
Hello Robyn,
I am a second year BN mainstream student interested in applying for a scholarship for my last year of study next year. I am slightly green to what the process is, so this has stopped me from applying sooner.
I understand no scholarships are available right now but will be put up in July/August? Also are there any other scholarship providers for nursing degrees that you know of?
Thank you very much for your time.
Michelle White
Hi Michelle,
Good to hear of your interest in scholarships.
Yes, we will be seeking applications for 2015 in August September and I strongly recommend you apply, if you meet the criteria we set out on our Apply for a scholarship page. I suggest you also check out the page Do’s and don’ts for hints on what we look for. On other scholarships, you can go to the library and log into either Breakout or Fundview, put in some search criteria and you should come up with a few to apply for. If you are already studying at Whitireia, then you have one of our criteria sorted – so give it a go 🙂 Look out for the 2015 application coming soon. If you sign up with your email on this site, you’ll get a notification when applications are out. Good luck with your third year, and I wish you success in gaining a scholarship. Cheers, Robyn
Hi do you have a date when the applications open? Thanks
Hi Vanessa,
Yes, September 1st. The 2015 application form will be on the website then. If you want to get a head start on what to put in your application, take a look at the 2014 Application Guide on this page ‘Apply for a scholarship’ and check out ‘Your scholarship application – do’s and don’ts’. The Whitireia Prospectus 2015 will be out at the same time. Thanks for your question. Cheers, Robyn
Hi there
Are there any scholarships for Photography, The Photo School in Kapiti?
Thanks heaps
Kia ora Monika, Thanks for your question. Our scholarships are typically for full-year study, and I understand that Photography level 4 and 5 are half-year, so wouldn’t be course we cover unfortunately – I will do some further checking and if there are any possibilities, I’ll get straight back to you. If photography really grabs your interest, I’d encourage you to apply for a scholarship in Whitireia’s Bachelor of Applied Arts (Visual Arts and Design), when you graduate from the Photo School. If you complete both practical (level4) and advanced (level5) photography, you can jump straight into year two of Applied Visual Arts and Design.
I was wondering if you could give me more information about Secondary students applying for a scholarship. I’ll be finishing secondary school this year and I’m looking to do a Bachelor of Applied Business. Thanks
Kia ora Allie, your message went astray and I have just discovered it – apologies! You still have time to complete an application to the Foundation (see the website for the Application Guide and some Do’s and Don’ts) if you’re keen to enrol in Whitireia’s Applied Business course for 2016. It would be a good idea to ring Information and Enrolment on 0800 944 847, or jump on http://www.whtireia.ac.nz so you can find out about the range of scholarships available to school leavers – there are are quite a few. Whitireia Foundation scholarships are for all ages and we have a new one specifically for the Bachelor of Applied Business. All the best for your scholarship application 🙂
Hey I would like to knw how to apply scholarship ,I would like to start health science foundation from nxt year
Kia ora Sabinaz, Yes, if you are a domestic student you can apply for a scholarship to study Health Science at Whitireia. You’ll need to be quick if you are to get in an application for study next year – the cut off date is the end of October. I’d suggest you apply, even if you are a few days late – you might want to add a note that you were waiting for information from me via the website. All the details are on the website. Check out the Application Guide first, then take a look at the ‘Do’s and Don’ts’ before you fill in your application form. Good Luck!
Kia Ora are scholarships still open for 2019
Kia ora Kataraina, Scholarships for 2019 have closed and recipients have been selected. Our next round is for 2020, opening in Sept/Oct 2019. Occasionally, additional scholarships come up mid year. In that case, we would announce them on this site and through the scholarships page on whitireia.ac.nz.
Hi, will you be offering scholarships for 2025? And if so, when would the applications open? Thanks
Hi Becs, Yes, absolutely! We’re aiming to have our application form online once we finalise a few more Scholarship Sponsors, likely to be mid-December – we’ve extended the due date for 2025 applications out to March 🙂 It’s looking good for Whitireia Foundation Student Scholarships in 2025, with more sponsors than 2024, and increases to some of the awards. Thanks for your interest….and good luck!
PS Check out the ‘Do’s and Don’ts page when you get started on your application.
A quick follow up to let you know that we’ve finalised our Sponsors for 2025 and you can Apply until March 10. Good luck!