2025 AI for Science Master’s Program in South Africa: (Deadline 21 March 2025)
Applications are open for the AI for Science Master’s Program at AIMS South Africa 2025. AI for Science is a stream in AIMS South Africa’s Master’s degree in Mathematical Science, which was made possible through a partnership with Google DeepMind. The program sits at the exciting intersection of AI and the Sciences. This exciting program started with its first intake of students in September 2023. It is a fully residential one-year taught master’s with a research component.
Applications are open to students from across Africa who are passionate about mathematics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. They are looking for students who gaze at the stars and the world around them in wonder, and who want to use their talents to accelerate scientific discovery.
Scholarship
A Google DeepMind donation funds 40 scholars per year for four years starting September 2023. The funding covers full scholarships, equipment, and computation costs for students.
Eligibility
To be eligible to apply for the AI for Science program, you have to:
be a resident in Africa at the time of application;
be a citizen of any country in Africa;
have completed a four-year undergraduate degree or a three-year undergraduate degree with an honors year by August 2025 (or December 2025 for southern African applicants);
not have held a previous scholarship to study at an AIMS center.
Your undergraduate degree could be in physics, mathematics, statistics, computer science, engineering or any other discipline with a strong computational and mathematical component.
The requirement of having completed either a four-year undergraduate degree or a three-year undergraduate degree with an additional honors year is a requirement for enrolling as a Master’s degree student in South Africa.
Application
Register and upload the following documents before 11:59 PM on March 21, 2025:
Your curriculum vitae
A motivation letter of around 500 words
Academic transcripts
Written mathematics questions (to be found on the application site)
Coding problem (to be found on the application site)
The online application includes a dozen short mathematics questions and one coding problem. It’s not an exam, but the questions give the selection panel some insight into how you approach problems. A full application can’t be completed at the last minute, and they encourage prospective Google DeepMind Scholars at AIMS South Africa to start applying early!
