Overview
Scholarship type
Need based
Number of scholarships to award
Multiple
Grant
Up to $7,000
Scholarship coverage
- tuition fee reduction
Description
This scholarship aims to support students who have experienced disadvantage or hardship to participate in an exchange or short-term mobility program.
Benefits
This scholarship is valued at $7,000 for a semester-long exchange and $3,500 for a short-term mobility program and is tenable for one semester.
Eligibility
You must:
- be either:
- currently enrolled to study in an undergraduate degree within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney, or
- currently enrolled at an interstate university or international partner university
- be able to demonstrate financial hardship based on one or more of the below:
- identify as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island person as defined in the University of Sydney’s Confirmation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Identity Policy 2015
- low socio-economic status
- carer responsibilities
- long-term medical condition/disability (including ongoing effects of abuse)
- sole-parent responsibilities
- regional or remote disadvantage
- refugee status
- identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex or queer (LGBTIQ+), and/or
- first in family.
Applicants from the University of Sydney must be:
- intending to apply or have applied for a University of Sydney Exchange program or short-term mobility program, and
- be intending to commence the approved exchange or short-term mobility program within the calendar year of the scholarship application closing date.
Applicants from an interstate or international partner university must be:
- intending to apply or have applied to undertake units of study within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney through cross-institutional study or an approved exchange agreement or study abroad program.
Scholarship requirements
Disciplines
Any
Locations
Australia
Nationality
Any
Study experience required
High school
Age
Unknown
Application
Application deadline
24 Jan 2027
Complete the application form