Awards and scholarships
Discover your potential by applying for one of the scholarships and awards offered to students at the School of Mathematics and Statistics.
A wide range of scholarships and prizes are available for students studying at the University, including those who face financial hardship. Scholarships may be for first-year students, returning students or specific types of postgraduate study such as Master's or PhD.
For details on current scholarships and information on how and when to apply, visit the University’s Scholarships page.
Summer Research Scholarship Programme
If you’re a third-year student or above, you could spend the summer supporting a research project in the Faculty of Engineering and earn a valuable scholarship. Find out more about the Summer Research Scholarship Programme.
Academic prizes
A number of prizes are awarded annually to the school's top-performing undergraduate students. There is no application process for these prizes—a School committee selects the winners.
Joint Awards
- Dr Margaret L Bailey Award: Awarded to a female student who has recently completed a Bachelor of Science majoring in either mathematics or statistics, wishing to pursue postgraduate study (at honours or postgraduate diploma level) within the School of Mathematics and Statistics. Preference will be given to those experiencing financial hardship
Mathematics prizes
- John P. Good Memorial Prize: Best first year student taking at least 45 points of mathematics.
- Rotary Club of Wellington Science Prizes: Best student taking at least 30 points of first year Mathematics.
- Macmorran Prize for Mathematics: Best student completing 45 points of 200 level mathematics.
- Jenny Whitmarsh Award for Mathematics: Best female student completing 45 points of 200 level mathematics, and proceeding to 300 level mathematics.
- David Payne Memorial Prizes: Best student in applied mathematics.
- W.H. (Bill) Vaughan Prize for Mathematics: Best student completing the mathematics major.
- Geoffrey A. Rowan Memorial Bursary: Best student in 300 level mathematics who then enrols for an Honours degree in mathematical sciences.
Statistics prizes
- Shayle Searle Prize in Statistics: Best student in STAT 193.
- J.T. Campbell Prize for Statistics: Best student in MATH 277.
- Rotary club of Wellington Science prizes: Students with best overall performance in first year Statistics.
- David Vere-Jones Prize: Best student in 300 level statistics courses including STAT 331.