Value
Tuition Fees + Student Services & Amenities Fees. A stipend will be provided if funding is available.
Duration
Standard Duration of UTS Course
Status
Open
Open.
Opens
05/05/2025Closes
02/06/2025Overview
The UTS Humanitarian Scholarship has been established to support undergraduate studies for students holding asylum seeker bridging or temporary protection visas as a result of their arrival to Australia as asylum seekers or humanitarian entrants.
The UTS Humanitarian Scholarship program underscores a university-wide commitment to provide Scholarships across all UTS faculties that offer undergraduate degrees to asylum seekers unable to access Commonwealth Supported places or government loan schemes.
Who is eligible?
To be eligible for the Scholarship, an applicant must meet all of the following criteria:
- Have temporary asylum seeker or refugee residence status and hold a Temporary Protection Visa (subclass 785), or Safe Haven Enterprise Visa (subclass 790), Bridging Visa A - E and has made an application for a Protection Visa [1] or Temporary Humanitarian Concern Visa (subclass 786),
- Be able to demonstrate that they do not have the financial means to support payment of their tuition fees without receiving the Scholarship; and
- Have applied and been deemed eligible for admission to a UTS undergraduate degree or UTS postgraduate degree; and
- Apply and commence at UTS in the next available intake for the course after completion of their study used as their basis of admission; and
- Be intending to enrol full-time; and
- All candidates must apply and complete the UTS online Scholarships Application; and
- All candidates must be available to attend an interview, if required.
[1] Applicants holding an Australian Bridging Visa A - E will be required to provide a statement and/or letter from a community organisation verifying the applicant’s experience of an asylum-seeker.
Selection process
- Academic Merit based on ATAR, UTS College Diploma GPA, U@Uni Academy Completion, or equivalent result; and
- As demonstrated in the Scholarship application (and interview if required): Motivation to succeed in the chosen degree program
- Circumstances impacting the applicant’s ability to support themselves financially and how receipt of the Scholarship will assist their academic success; and
- Preference will be given to undergraduate applicants who have not commenced or completed an undergraduate degree in Australia.
How to apply
To be considered for the UTS Humanitarian Scholarship all applicants must first apply for admission to a UTS course that commences in 2025. Applying for a UTS course can be done via UTS International or the Universities Admissions Centre (UAC). If you are applying for admission to a UTS course via UTS International please email UTS Scholarships for a code to waive the course application fee. Please note course applications will close on 31 May 2025.
All applicants must then submit a scholarship application form in order to be considered for this scholarship. Late applications will not be considered.
Need more information? Contact...
UTS Scholarships
Email: scholarships@uts.edu.au
Other information
- A maximum of twenty-six (26)[1] recipients will be awarded the Scholarship subject to the available funding pool each year. Twenty-four (24) places have already been allocated for 2025, with two (2) places remaining for Spring session 2025 starts. Of these:
- Twenty (20) are reserved for students commencing a UTS undergraduate degree and have temporary asylum seeker or refugee residence status and hold a Bridging Visa A - E (and has made an application for a Protection Visa), or Temporary Protection Visa (subclass 785), or Safe Haven Enterprise Visa (subclass 790).[2]
- Four (4) are reserved for students commencing a UTS undergraduate degree and have a temporary humanitarian concern visa (subclass 786).
- Two (2) are reserved for students commencing a UTS postgraduate degree and have a temporary humanitarian concern visa (subclass 786) or Bridging Visa A - E (and has made an application for a Protection Visa), or Temporary Protection Visa (subclass 785), or Safe Haven Enterprise Visa (subclass 790).
- This number includes students that have a guaranteed Scholarship place after successful completion of UTS College studies and students identified as eligible through the UTS U@Uni Academy pathway.
[1] If reserved places are not awarded, the Selection Committee reserves the right to redistribute scholarship places to eligible candidates. This decision aims to ensure that all available scholarships are awarded to qualifying individuals. The decision to redistribute scholarship places will be made at the discretion of the Selection Committee.
[2] In response to the ongoing Palestine-Israel humanitarian crisis four (4) additional scholarship places have been established for asylum seekers from the region pursuing education in Australia.