Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarships

Student type:

• Future domestic undergraduate students
• Current domestic undergraduate students

Eligibility:

• Of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent
• Struggling financially
• From regional, rural or remote areas

Study type:

• Undergraduate

Faculty/area:

• Business
• Creative Industries
• Education
• Health
• Law
• Science and Engineering

You must be:

• from a low-income background
• be experiencing financial hardship.

We also take your personal circumstances (e.g. personal medical condition or disability, dependents with special needs, etc) into consideration.

If you're financially comfortable, and don't experience financial hardship, you should not apply for these scholarships. Academic results are not taken into consideration for these scholarships, only financial need.

Indigenous Access Scholarship (IAS)

To apply for the Indigenous Access Scholarship (IAS), you must be:

• of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent
• either a commencing student enrolled in or undertaking a course at QUT as a Commonwealth supported student in an undergraduate course of study, or have accepted your QTAC offer of a place as a Commonwealth supported student.

Indigenous Commonwealth Education Costs Scholarship (ICECS)

To apply for the Indigenous Commonwealth Education Costs Scholarship (ICECS), you must be:

• of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent
• enrolled in an undergraduate course.

Indigenous Commonwealth Accommodation Scholarship (ICAS)

To apply for the Indigenous Commonwealth Accommodation Scholarship (ICAS), you must:

• be of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent
• have relocated to study from a regional or remote area of Australia, and be able to provide evidence of your prior address in order to meet residence and relocation requirements
• be studying the majority of your course as an internal student, unless you can demonstrate that there are exceptional circumstances preventing you from doing so.

You may receive one or more of:

• an Indigenous Access Scholarships (IAS) of $4,659 (paid in two equal instalments for one semester only), to assist Indigenous students from low-income backgrounds to undertake their first undergraduate course
• an Indigenous Commonwealth Education Costs Scholarship (ICECS) of $2,469 each year for up to four years
• an Indigenous Commonwealth Accommodation Scholarship (ICAS) of $4,939 each year for up to four years, if eligible.

Applications for Semester 1, 2013 Equity Scholarships have now closed. Applications for Semester 2, 2013 will open in late May.

We will assess your application and score it against our selection criteria.

We allocate scholarships based on need. The neediest students will receive the highest value scholarships. The number of scholarships available will determine the cut-off to receive a scholarship.

The Commonwealth Scholarships Guidelines (Education) 2010 were registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI) F2010L00696 on 17 March 2010 and an amendment was registered on 2 July 2010. The guidelines and a copy of the amendments are available on the Attorney-General's Department website.

The Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarships will be available subject to federal government funding.

The Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarships are for Indigenous students from low-income backgrounds - students who face significant financial barriers to studying at university.