Welcome to NSFAS

National Student Financial Aid Scheme of South Africa

The National Student Financial Aid Scheme of South Africa (NSFAS) is determined to make a difference in our land by providing a sustainable financial aid system for study loans and bursaries, allowing academically deserving and financially needy students to realise their potential and hopes for the future.

NSFAS is unique to South Africa.
Access to a quality education has been at the core of the South African struggle for decades and remains a key factor in the transformation of our society. Today, education represents a way out of deprivation and poverty and symbolises the South African dream - the creation of a participatory democracy and social inclusion for all South Africans.

At NSFAS, we are very aware of the role that we must play to turn dreams into reality.
We also know that making one dream come true requires the commitment, skill and passion of many. We are united with our funders, stakeholders, institutions and suppliers behind one common vision - one day, nothing will stop South Africa's young talent from emerging.

LOAN AND BURSARY

Who? What? How?
Where? Educational Institutions
Why? Success stories

PAYING YOUR
STUDY LOAN

When you receive a NSFAS study loan, your first responsibility is to repay the confidence shown in you by studying hard, graduating and going on to enter the...

ASSOCIATES

Funders
Education Institutions
Partners
Government
Supplier Registration

Education is the great engine to personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become a head of a mine, that the child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

Nelson Mandela