We offer many funding schemes to support domestic and international students undertaking research degrees. The schemes include living allowance stipends, tuition fee scholarships, conference funds and equity support grants.
You can also look externally for financial support including external scholarships or, if your research is relevant to them, being sponsored by an external organisation.
UTS scholarships assessed as part of your research degree application
When you apply for a research degree, you’ll be asked if you want to be considered for a UTS Competitive Scholarship. In your application form, tick the box and indicate which of the following scholarships and stipends you want to be considered for to be automatically assessed:
- Australian Government Research Training Program Stipend
- Sir Gerard Brennan Scholarship
- Jumbunna Postgraduate Research Scholarship
- Quentin Bryce Law Doctoral Scholarship
- Ross Milbourne Research Scholarship in Economics
- International Research Training Program Scholarship (IRTP)
- International Research Scholarships (UTS IRS)
- UTS President's Scholarship.
UTS scholarships by application
For all other UTS scholarships, including faculty scholarships, you’ll need to apply using a separate application form.
Use the Find a Scholarship tool to see all UTS scholarships and their individual application processes, or visit individual faculty webpages for additional opportunities:
External scholarships by application
Each year several funding opportunities are made available to research students by organisations outside of UTS. All applications and enquiries related to these scholarships need to go through the organisation, not UTS.
Get sponsored
If your research interests affect an industry or sector, consider seeking sponsorship by an organisation in the space.
The Industry Doctorate Program is one way of doing this. It’s a collaborative research project between an industry partner, a PhD candidate, and UTS. The industry partner defines the research problem and pays you, the primary researcher, a salary to produce the research supported UTS’s experts and facilities.
The Australian Government’s National Industry PhD Program (opens external website) offers stipends for PhD candidates working on co-designed industry research projects.
Contact the Graduate Research School for more information.
Fund yourself
You can self-fund if you have the means to support yourself financially. If you are an international candidate who is self-funding, you will need to provide your means of supporting yourself to the Australian Government during your visa application process.
Conference, publication and hardship funds
We offer grants to help current research candidates to develop professionally and attend conferences.