UNSW Equity Award PUCE1008

Key

Scholarship Details

Stage

First year students, Second year students, Third year and above, Postgraduate students

Opens

26/06/2020

Closing Date

See below

Value

$5,000
100 Scholarship(s) available
For 1 year

Residency

Aus Citizen/Aus Permanent Resident

Outline

The UNSW Equity Award aims to support current students at UNSW who may be experiencing a form of educational disadvantage.

Eligibility

To be eligible, applicants must meet all of the following criteria:

• Be an Australian Citizen or Australian Permanent Resident
• Have completed a minimum of one semester of full-time study in an undergraduate or postgraduate coursework degree program at UNSW; and
• Must demonstrate at least one educational disadvantage through an Equity Scholarships (ES) application to the Universities Admissions Centre (UAC)

Selection

Candidates will be considered on the basis of their UAC Equity Scholarship application. Each applicant must be experiencing educational disadvantage and will be assessed on their eligibility to demonstrate one or more of the following criteria:

• Financial Hardship
• Carer Responsibilities
• Sole Parent Responsibilities
• Indigenous Australian
• Long-term medical condition/disability or ongoing effects of abuse
• Refugee status
• Regional or remote disadvantage

Academic merit may also be considered where the number of eligible applications exceeds the available number of scholarships.

The award of the Scholarship may not be deferred.

Applicants must submit an Equity Scholarship application via UAC

Successful applicants will be notified of their outcome during the UAC Equity Scholarship Offer Rounds.

Interviews

Shortlisted applicants are not required to attend an interview.

You are not able to apply for this scholarship through My Application Online - UNSW Scholarships.

Application is through the UAC.

This application is accessible here.