Faculty of Business and Law Excellence Scholarship

What you'll receive

A scholarship valued at $5,000 in your first year of study in a business, law, or property economics single or double degree.

The scholarship will be paid as a stipend of $2,500 after the HECS-HELP census date in your first and second semester of study, as long as you have an active enrolment and meet all the scholarship conditions.

Other benefits may include:

• automatic membership of the QUT College of Excellence
• invitation to attend the College of Excellence camp in February
• the opportunity to represent QUT as a Student Ambassador.

Eligibility

How to apply

There is no scholarship application process for this program. All eligible students who complete a QTAC application in line with QTAC key dates, listing a QUT Business, Laws or Property Economics single or double degree at their first preference, and who do not accept any other merit scholarship at QUT, will be eligible for a Faculty of Business and Law Excellence (FBLE) Scholarship offer.

The Faculty of Business and Law reserves the right to use discretion to balance the offers made across the discipline and degree combinations.

There is no Semester 2 scholarship offer round. Students looking to commence study in Semester 2, 2024 who are made a  scholarship offer, must accept their offer during the early 2024 rounds and defer their scholarship for 6 months in writing to the QUT Business School scholarships office.

Other scholarships at QUT may require you to complete a separate application to be considered. For more information, browse our scholarships.

What happens next?

Faculty of Business and Law Excellence Scholarship offers will be made between January and February 2024. Data from both December and January QTAC offer rounds may be used to fill the scholarship quota.

Only students who are successful in being offered a scholarship are notified.

Conditions

To keep your scholarship you must:

• remain enrolled full time in the QUT business, laws or property economics degree nominated on your scholarship contract
• complete a minimum of two business / laws / property economics units per semester (double degree students)
• maintain a grade point average (GPA) of 4.0 and passes in all units for the duration of the scholarship.

You can:

• defer your scholarship offer for six months only. If you defer your course for six months and commence in second semester you will remain eligible for your scholarship
• take a leave of absence for up to two years but only after you have completed one semester of study. You won't receive scholarship payments during periods of leave.

You can't:

• undertake university study elsewhere, and be resulted for same, prior to commencing at QUT on this scholarship
• defer your scholarship for 12 months
• hold any other academic scholarships; Equity Scholarships are allowed. If you have any questions about holding other scholarships, contact the QUT Scholarships team.

Full terms and conditions will be provided for consideration at the time of offer.

Terms and conditions for Faculty of Business and Law Excellence Scholarship (PDF file; 301.3 KB)

About the scholarship

This scholarship gives you a head start for university study in business, laws or property economics and acknowledges the hard work and outstanding results you have achieved at high school.

By attracting the best business, laws and property economics students to our programs, we ensure you have an engaging academic experience during your time here.

Our faculty graduates are highly regarded by employers, as we continue to produce leaders in our faculty disciplines, domestically and internationally.