Postgraduate Indigenous Scholarship

Student type:

• Future domestic postgraduate students

Eligibility:

• Of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent
• Academic performance

Study type:

• Postgraduate coursework

Faculty/area:

• Science and Engineering

Open date: 26 October 2012

Closing date: 25 February 2013

You must:

• be an Indigenous Australian
• provide Confirmation of Aboriginality to QUT's Oodgeroo Unit. If you need assistance to obtain your Confirmation of Aboriginality, please contact the Oodgeroo Unit
• have a minimum undergraduate GPA of 4.5 out of 7 (or equivalent)
• commence a postgraduate coursework degree at QUT in Semester 1, 2013.

You'll receive:

• $6,000 over one year, paid in two instalments of $3,000 in each semester.

We recommend you apply by email. If you're unable to email your application, you can apply in person.

You must:

• apply for entry into an eligible course for Semester 1, 2013
• complete the application form:
  • application form as pdf (PDF file, 57.15 KB)
  • application form as a Microsoft Word document (DOCX file, 70.15 KB)
• complete your answers to the relevant questions (these should be typed)
• sign the declaration
• attach your supporting documents.

We will not consider your application if you do not answer all of the questions in the correct format.

Please do not submit original documents as we are not able to return them.

Apply by email

Email your application to the Science and Engineering Student Systems Officer - Scholarships & Prizes.

Subject: Postgraduate Indigenous Scholarship.

Apply in person

Bring your application to the Science and Engineering Student Systems Officer - Scholarships & Prizes.

Mark it: ‘Private and Confidential’ Attention: ‘Postgraduate Indigenous Scholarship’

We'll assess your application based on your:

• prior academic results
• reference letter
• goals and achievements as provided in your application
• community involvement.
  

You will be informed in writing of the outcome of your application by mid to late March 2013.

You must:

• achieve a grade of 4 or above for all units in the first semester to retain the scholarship for the second semester
• continue your second semester studies directly after the first semester
• maintain an enrolment of at least 24 credit points per semester in the relevant course.

You can't:

• defer your enrolment
• normally hold more than one academic scholarship at QUT through this scholarship period.

Your scholarship may also be terminated if you:

• don't carry out your study competently or diligently
• behave in a manner that warrants disciplinary action
• discontinue from the prescribed course or transfer to another course.