Students seeking a Doctoral Scholarship need to meet the eligibility criteria, which can be found online:
University of Otago Doctoral Scholarship
All PhD students are able to apply for a Doctoral Scholarship when they have submitted an application to the PhD programme and received an invitation to apply for a scholarship.
Applications are assessed on a quarterly basis, usually around March, June, September and November of each year.
Students with a GPA of 8 — 'A' grade or higher — who have completed an honours or master's degree with an appropriate research component from a New Zealand university are likely to be guaranteed a University of Otago Doctoral Scholarship.
Most successful international scholarship applicants will have the most relevant grades and/or a grade average in the US-equivalent 'A' range.