Undergraduate, honours and postgraduate scholarship information

Financial hardship

To be eligible under this category, at the time of application you must either be:

• receiving a current Centrelink payment and/or benefit (e.g. Youth Allowance or a Low Income Health Care Card), or
• experiencing exceptional financial disadvantage but not receiving any Centrelink payments or benefits.

Indigenous Australian

For students who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, you may be required to confirm Aboriginal and or Torres Strait Islander identity through:

• a letter stamped with the common seal and signed by the chairperson of an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Land Council, or
• a letter stamped with the common seal and signed by a delegate of an incorporated Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander organisation.
• a copy of your birth certificate and a copy of your parent/s confirmation of Aboriginality as described above.

Regional and remote areas

This category applies if you live or have lived* in a regional and remote area of Australia as determined by the Australian Standard Geographical Classification Remoteness Areas Locator.

*  If you have moved from a regional or remote area to a Metropolitan area in order to complete High School or commence University studies, you may still be considered under this category.

To apply for a scholarship: 

1. Log in to the Student System via your Flinders dashboard
2. Click on the ‘My Scholarships’ tab at the top of the screen  
3. Select the scholarship group (scholarships with similar eligibility criteria may be grouped together in the Student System)
4. Complete the application as required and attached all relevant supporting documentation
5. Submit your application

You will be notified of the outcome of your application via your Flinders email account.

External (non-Flinders) scholarships

• Relocation Scholarships
  
• Australia Awards Scholarships
• Indigenous Scholarships Portal

All scholarships will have eligibility criteria which will be used to determine which applications advance to be assessed.  The eligibility criteria will be clearly stated on the Scholarship page and within the scholarship rules.

Quotas

Some scholarships may have sub-quotas available to specific student groups.  Where this is the case, this will be stated on scholarship page and/or the scholarship rules.

Quotas can be used where scholarship applicants come from differing pathways, or to ensure that students from different Colleges have access to scholarships that are open to multiple Colleges or University wide.

Ranking and Assessment

Scholarship applicants who do not meet all the required criteria will be deemed to have failed the initial assessment and will be made unsuccessful.  Unsuccessful applicants will be advised of this as soon as possible.

Applications that meet all eligibility criteria will then be ranked according to the selection criteria described on our webpage and outlined in the scholarship rules.

Selection

Selection may be undertaken by a delegated officer or a selection committee, convened for the purpose.

Participants in any selection process who have an actual, perceived or potential conflict of interest will be required to declare this prior to any selection decision. Where this arises, the matter will be managed under the University’s Conflict of Interest Policy.