UTS Humanitarian Scholarship
The UTS Humanitarian Scholarship supports commencing undergraduate students who are holders of asylum seeker bridging visas or temporary protection visas, and who are unable to access a Commonwealth Supported Place or student loan schemes.
The Scholarship provides tuition fees and a minimum financial contribution of $1,000 per year towards learning and living expenses.
- A maximum of twenty-six (26)[1] recipients will be awarded the Scholarship subject to the available funding pool each year. 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.
To be eligible for the scholarship students must:
- Apply for admission to UTS;
- Submit a UTS Humanitarian Scholarship application form;
- Have a NSW HSC or Australian equivalent, or UTS College negotiated pathway;
- Be accepted to study at UTS;
- Be commencing the first year of a UTS undergraduate degree OR UTS postgraduate degree;
- Be enrolled full-time.
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