QUT Postgraduate Research Award (QUTPRA) (Domestic)

What you'll receive

You'll receive:

• a living allowance for three years, indexed annually ($28,597 in 2021). The scholarship can be used to support living costs.

Eligibility

You must:

• meet the admission criteria for a PhD (PDF file, 235.7 KB)
• apply for and be accepted into a PhD or professional doctorate.

This scholarship is not available for masters students.

Faculty criteria

Depending on the faculty you'll be studying in, you will have to meet specific eligibility criteria.

Creative Industries Faculty

Faculty of Education

Faculty of Health

Faculty of Law

QUT Business School

Science and Engineering Faculty

How to apply

Future students

We have moved to a two-step application process, with an Expression of Interest (EOI) followed by an application if you are invited to apply on the basis of your EOI.

You must have submitted your EOI by by 11:59pm AEST on 20 September 2020 to ensure inclusion in the annual scholarship round.

If your EOI is successful you will be invited to submit an application. Applications must be submitted by 11:59pm AEST on 30 October 2020.

If you submitted an application prior to Monday 17 August 2020 and indicated that you wished to be considered for a scholarship you will automatically be included in the round.

Follow our step-by-step guide to apply for a research degree

Current students

Applications have closed for the 2021 annual scholarship round.

What happens next?

We'll assess applications and make offers in mid-December. If your scholarship application is successful, you'll need to accept the offer by the response date provided in your offer. We expect you to begin your research degree early in the following year.

Eligibility for admission to a PhD is determined by the Graduate Research Centre. Scholarship applications will be assessed by the faculty you’re applying to study with.

Conditions

Your scholarship will end when you submit your thesis, or at the end of the award's tenure, whichever comes first.

Read the terms and conditions (PDF file, 301.5 KB) for this scholarship.

To keep your scholarship, you must:

• make satisfactory progress in your studies
• remain studying at QUT
• be enrolled as an internal student
• remain studying full-time.

You can't:

• hold another scholarship that is worth more than 75% of the QUT Postgraduate Research Award (Domestic).

About the scholarship

We are building research excellence by supporting students of exceptional research potential with QUTPRAs. The number of QUTPRAs offered varies from year to year. In 2018 over 100 QUTPRA scholarships were awarded.