New Zealand scholarship payments

Step 1 - We'll check you meet the payment criteria

Once you've been awarded a New Zealand Scholarship, we'll send you a form and you need to:

• check your education provider is correct
• check your study start date is correct
• get evidence of the bank account you want to be paid into (if we haven't seen this before)
• sign the form.

If this is your second or third year of getting the scholarship, you also need get evidence of your 'B' grade average for the year.

Once you've got your form and documents, log in to Connect and upload these.

We'll then confirm your enrolment details with your education provider.

Step 2 - We'll pay the scholarship to you

If you meet the criteria, we'll pay the NZ Scholarship to you once the Top Scholar ceremony is held (usually in the first 2 weeks of May).

If this is your second or third year of getting the scholarship, we'll pay you once we've:

• got your form and documents
• confirmed your enrolment details with your education provider.

If you've finished school but haven't got your first scholarship payment yet, you can postpone it for up to a year, starting from when you leave secondary school. You will need to notify NZQA through the learner portal.

After you get your initial scholarship payment, you can also postpone any further payments. You need to tell us about this by using our online contact form, with 'Scholarship' as the topic. You also need to contact NZQA to let them know.