Scholarship details
Study levels
Undergraduate
Student type
Future students and Current students
Study area
All study areas
Eligibility criteria
Struggling financially, From regional and rural or remote areas
Citizenship
Australian and Australian or New Zealand
What you'll receive
You'll receive a scholarship valued at $7,500 per year for up to four years, paid in two instalments of $3,750 each year.
This scholarship is offered in Semester 1 each year.
Eligibility
You must be one of the following:
- an Australian citizen (including dual citizens)
- a permanent resident of Australia
- a permanent humanitarian visa holder
- a New Zealand citizen.
You must also be:
- from a low-income background
- experiencing financial hardship
- enrolled in or applying for an undergraduate course, enrolled in a full-time study program
- from a regional, rural, or remote area in Queensland or the Northern Territory.
This scholarship is not available to:
- single-unit study students - studying an individual unit at QUT, but not enrolled in a QUT course
- cross-institutional students - enrolled in a course at another university, but studying specific units at QUT and receiving credit towards your course at the other university
- QUT College students - studying one of the pathway programs offered by our international college, including foundation courses, university diplomas and English language courses.
How to apply
What happens next?
All applications are assessed against selection criteria. We allocate scholarships based on need. Students with the greatest need will receive the highest value scholarships.
About the scholarship
The Learning Potential Fund provides support through scholarships and bursaries to students in financial need.
The Tim Fairfax AC Regional and Remote Learning Potential Fund Scholarships are for low-income students from regional and remote areas in Queensland and the Northern Territory who are studying or who want to study an undergraduate degree. They have been established by Mr Tim Fairfax AC as a tribute to rural and regional education.
These scholarships are intended to be offered as 32 individual named scholarships in perpetuity through the QUT Learning Potential Fund. The scholarships encourage disadvantaged and low-income students from regional and remote areas in Queensland and the Northern Territory to study an undergraduate degree in the faculty of their choice at QUT.
Contact us
Scholarship Team
- Phone
- 3138 7624
- Int. phone
- +61 7 3138 7624
- scholarships@qut.edu.au
- Website
- https://www.qut.edu.au/scholarships
- Postal address
- Queensland University of Technology
- GPO Box 2434
- Brisbane QLD 4001