Important information for scholarship recipients
Congratulations on receiving a scholarship offer from UTS. This information will guide you through next steps and help you manage your scholarship.
Who is this information for?
The following information is for recipients of scholarships managed by UTS Scholarships.
Some scholarships are managed by a faculty, or the UTS: Graduate Research School or UTS International.
Accepting your scholarship
Domestic students
Once you have received an email from UTS offering you a scholarship, follow these steps to accept the scholarship offer:
- Login to My Student Admin, using your student ID email address and password
- Click on the 'Scholarships' tab at the top right of the page
- Select your Scholarship, then click the 'Accept' button
- Update your bank account details
- Enter any other details, then click the 'Save acceptance' button.
Once you complete these steps and have accepted your scholarship, the status of your scholarship in My Student Admin will change to ‘Pending bestowal’.
When your eligibility is confirmed, and your payment is being processed, your scholarship status will change to ‘Active’.
International students
- Accept your scholarship along with your course offer. Refer to Accepting your offer.
- Login to My Student Admin, using your student ID and password
- Click on the 'Scholarships' tab at the top right of the page.
- Your scholarship status should be ‘Active’.
Conditions of Award
The Conditions of Award is an important legal document that outlines your obligations while receiving your scholarship. It also outlines the university's responsibilities in administering the scholarship.
Please read the Conditions of Award in full before accepting your scholarship offer. By accepting your scholarship, you are also agreeing to the Conditions of Award.
Scholarship payments
Scholarship payments are made via Electronic Funds Transfer to your nominated Australian bank account. This is the preferred method of payment across the university. To receive your scholarship payment, you must enter details of your valid Australian bank account in My Student Admin.
If your scholarship is a tuition fee scholarship, payment will be made directly to your UTS student fee account.
To provide us with your bank details, or to update them, please follow these steps:
- Log into My Student Admin
- Click on the 'Personal Details' tab
- On the left-hand menu, click on 'Bank Account Details'
- Click on ‘Change my account details’
- Select 'Electronic Funds Transfer’ under the payment method
- Tick ‘Local’ under bank account (please note that we only pay scholarships to an Australian bank)
- Enter the bank account holder name
- Enter the name of your bank under bank name
- Select ‘BSB’ under bank code type
- Enter your 6-digit BSB code
- Enter your bank account number
- Click 'Save'.
Holding more than one scholarship
In most cases multiple scholarships cannot be held simultaneously. There may be exceptions where more than one scholarship is awarded if an equity scholarship based on exceptional circumstances is approved.
Conditions and rules regarding multiple scholarships can be found in the Conditions of Award.
Deferring a scholarship
A scholarship offer cannot be deferred. Students are welcome to re-apply for a scholarship in a future round.
Ongoing eligibility
The Conditions of Award outlines ongoing eligibility criteria required to continue receiving your scholarship. If your study circumstances change, please contact UTS Scholarships immediately for advice. The following are some examples of types of ongoing eligibility requirements:
- Academic Progress: the academic progress of recipients is reviewed each session to determine their eligibility to continue receiving their scholarship.
- Enrolment: recipient enrolment is reviewed each session. Most scholarships require recipients to be enrolled in a full-time study load. For these scholarships, students wanting to undertake part-time study must apply to the UTS Scholarships. Failure to advise the office of enrolment changes may result in the scholarship being terminated.
- Course transfer: recipients must apply to UTS Scholarships to transfer the Scholarship if applying for course transfer.
- Academic integrity: any Academic Misconduct allegations proven by the University (and upheld if appealed) will result in the termination of this Scholarship.
- Financial disadvantage: Some scholarships require recipients to demonstrate financial disadvantage. In most instances financial disadvantage is verified through a UAC Equity Scholarship application measured onthe receipt of means-tested Centrelink benefits.
Declaring scholarship payments to the Australian Taxation Office
UTS does not withhold PAYG tax from coursework scholarship or award payments. It is the recipient's responsibility to check whether the payments they are receiving are classified as taxable income. Please visit the scholarships page of the Australian Taxation Office website to determine whether your scholarship payments are classified as taxable income. For enquiries about scholarship taxation, you can also phone the ATO on 13 28 61.
Scholarships payments and Centrelink
It is important to declare your scholarship payment to Centrelink if you are receiving benefits.
Please contact Centrelink for information on how scholarship payments may affect your Centrelink benefit.