Faculty of Science Undergraduate Indigenous Australian Commencing Student Merit Scholarship

What you’ll receive

Scholarships available are:

• valued at $7,500 paid over three years for an eligible bachelor degree in the Faculty of Science.

Eligibility

You must:

• be an Indigenous Australian commencing student
• have completed Year 12 (or a gap year) in 2022
• be starting university for the first time in 2023
• have achieved a minimum ATAR of 90.0 or above (ATAR adjustment schemes are applicable in the assessment of these scholarships)
• have placed QUT as your first preference
• be applying to start an undergraduate or related double degree offered by the Faculty of Science.

How to apply

You do not need to complete a scholarship application for the Undergraduate Indigenous Australian commencing student merit scholarship. All eligible students who complete a QTAC application in line with QTAC key dates will be considered based on academic performance.

What happens next?

We’ll assess your application based on your adjusted ATAR ranking.

We will make offers for scholarships in early March 2023.

Conditions

You must:

• be enrolled in at least 36 credit points each semester for the duration of your studies
• achieve a minimum course (accumulative) grade point average (GPA) of 4 each semester.

You can’t:

• defer your scholarship offer
• hold any other scholarship except an Equity Scholarship. If you have any questions about holding other scholarships, contact us at scholarships@qut.edu.au .

About the scholarship

This scholarship aims to support high-achieving Indigenous Australian students who are starting their first year of an undergraduate degree in science, mathematics or IT.