The Fully Funded Mandela Rhodes Scholarship Is A life-changing leadership journey 2025. Apply Online
The Mandela Rhodes Scholarship offers an unparalleled opportunity for emerging leaders across Africa. This fully funded program empowers recipients through leadership development, academic excellence, and personal growth, fostering a new generation of change-makers dedicated to addressing pressing challenges within their communities and beyond. Join this transformative journey in 2025!
The Mandela Rhodes Scholarship offers comprehensive funding for the core costs associated with your studies. It covers tuition for a one-year Honours degree or a two-year Masters degree in any field at a recognised South African institution of higher education.
This includes tuition and registration fees, allowances for study materials, research, and medical aid, accommodation and meals, personal allowance and economy class travel to and from your home country to your South African university at the beginning and end of your degree.
How are Mandela Rhodes Scholars selected?
We look for young leaders who aspire to the principles below and who have demonstrated the potential to live them out.
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Leadership
Do you aspire to be a visionary leader who has moral authority? Do you see leadership as more than just personal ambition – as a way to pursue the advancement of equality and freedom, human rights and human dignity? And do you want to guide and inspire others to reach their full potential?
Reconciliation
Do you believe that reconciliation – combined with reparation – is the key to harnessing an imperfect past to develop a more just world? And are you prepared to start the process by looking at your own internal landscape?
Education
Do you have excellent academic results but believe that your education should not only benefit you but make a difference for others? And do you agree that intellectual excellence must be accompanied by character and a rounded personality?
Entrepreneurship
Do you want to see Africa take its rightful place as an equal and competitive presence in the global world? Have you demonstrated individual effort, innovation and creativity to this end?
For scholars from outside South Africa…
Important: Applicants from outside South Africa may need to complete SAQA verification to start their studies at a South African university. Please see the relevant FAQs and the information under “Step 3: Get your documents ready” below.
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