The Elite Athlete and Performer Program (EAPP) is a Sport, Wellbeing and Residential Life initiative to support student athletes and performers dual career. This EAPP Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Scholarship is designed to support elite athletes/performers who participate in n...

$3000 approx. total

1 Year

2 scholarships offered

Closed

Open: 26/11/2025

Close: 01/03/2026

Established in 2016, based on the foundational principles it is the desire of St John of God Health Care NSW Services to support ACU’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing students through a scholarship.The St John of God Health Care (SJGHC) Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) expresses the...

$20000 approx. total

3 Years

2 scholarships offered

NSW

Closed

Open: 23/10/2025

Close: 01/03/2026

Established by the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, Queensland, through Australian Catholic University, to commemorate and honour the work of their foundress Mary MacKillop. This scholarship recognises and rewards undergraduate ACU students who can demonstrate support and involvement in ...

$4000 approx. total

1 Year

1 scholarship offered

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/08/2025

Close: 01/03/2026

Featured Promoted

Established by the Presentation Sisters, Queensland Congregation, to commemorate and honour the work of their founder Nano Nagle. The specific goal of these scholarships is to encourage the development of leadership skills of emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders through professi...

$4000 approx. total

1 Year

1 scholarship offered

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/08/2025

Close: 01/03/2026

Emeritus Professor Ellen Maev O'Collins established this endowed scholarship in 2015 to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students undertaking health sciences and social work studies - she greatly serviced the people of Papua New Guinea with her studies and work in her career.&...

$3500 approx. total

1 Year

1 scholarship offered

ACT

Closed

Open: 01/08/2025

Close: 01/03/2026

This scholarship was established in 2016, as a tangible memorial to Jodie Reid, a 1996 ACU Nursing Graduate and Centaur Medalist, who died in 2004, aged 27, after suffering from Diabetes mellitus for 25 years.

$4000 approx. total

No Duration

1 scholarship offered

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/08/2025

Close: 01/03/2026

This Scholarship was created in 2004 by the Pratt Foundation which was established by philanthropists Richard and Jeanne Pratt. 

$4000 approx. total

1 Semester

NSW, QLD, ACT

Closed

Open: 01/08/2025

Close: 01/03/2026

This scholarship provides financial support to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students who are undertaking a UTS undergraduate Science degree. 

$15000 approx. total

3 Years

NSW

Closed

Open: 24/11/2025

Close: 02/03/2026

The Commonwealth of Australia provides funds under the Indigenous Student Success Program to improve higher education access, encourage Indigenous people to commence an undergraduate degree course at The University of Western Australia and increase higher education participation and success for I...

$3000 approx. total

1 Year

WA

Closed

Open: 15/12/2025

Close: 03/03/2026

The Commonwealth of Australia provides funds under the Indigenous Student Success Program to improve higher education access, encourage Indigenous people to undertake an undergraduate course or an approved postgraduate course at The University of Western Australia and increase higher education pa...

$12000 approx. total

3 Years

50 scholarships offered

WA

Closed

Open: 15/12/2025

Close: 03/03/2026

The Godfrey and Ione Hester Indigenous Pathway Scholarship in Medicine was established by Dr. Vanessa Harvey in memory of her parents, to provide assistance to an Indigenous student who has accepted an offer of assured entry into the course for the degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD) at The Univers...

$40000 approx. total

4 Years

1 scholarship offered

WA

Closed

Open: 15/12/2025

Close: 03/03/2026

INPEX Ichthys Pty Ltd has donated funds to The University of Western Australia to provide a scholarship to encourage and assist high achieving Indigenous students to commence an undergraduate degree course at the University.

$15000 approx. total

3 Years

2 scholarships offered

WA

Closed

Open: 15/12/2025

Close: 03/03/2026

Jack and Eleanor Bendat donated funds to The University of Western Australia to assist and encourage meritorious Indigenous students from regional Western Australia to continue and complete their first undergraduate degree course.

$15000 approx. total

3 Years

2 scholarships offered

WA

Closed

Open: 15/12/2025

Close: 03/03/2026

The Bendat Family Foundation has donated funds to UWA to establish a fund to provide scholarships to encourage and assist high-achieving Indigenous Australian students, who are facing financial hardship, to pursue a Juris Doctor. 

$15000 approx. total

Duration of the Program

WA

Closed

Open: 15/12/2025

Close: 03/03/2026

This Scholarship was created in memory of the late Gloria Brennan, to assist Australian Aboriginal students to pursue an undergraduate degree at the University of Western Australia.

$2500 approx. total

1 Year

WA

Closed

Open: 15/12/2025

Close: 03/03/2026

The late Eveline Rosina Glyde donated funds to the University of Western Australia to assist and encourage Indigenous Australian and Torres Strait Islander students to pursue a bridging course or undergraduate degree course at the university.

$4000 approx. total

1 Year

WA

Closed

Open: 15/12/2025

Close: 03/03/2026

Buurabalayji Thalanyji Aboriginal Corporation have donated funds to the University of Western Australia (UWA) to assist and encourage a high-achieving student to pursue a Bachelor fo Arts (Honours) majoring in Archaeology at UWA.

$40000 approx. total

1 Year

WA

Closed

Open: 15/12/2025

Close: 03/03/2026

Arcadia Landscape Design has donated funds to UWA to assist and encourage a high-achieving Indigenous Australian to commence and pursue studies in Landscape Architecture at UWA.  This provides $5000 per annum.

$20000 approx. total

4 Years

1 scholarship offered

WA

Closed

Open: 15/12/2025

Close: 03/03/2026

This Scholarship is to support further engagement with the sciences amongst First Nations Australians. The Scholarship funds will be used to support overcome obstacles to education in the fields of Science, Engineering and Technology. 

$15000 approx. total

3 Years

1 scholarship offered

NT

Closed

Open: 28/01/2026

Close: 06/03/2026

This scholarship provides financial support to a Fist Nations Australian student studying at Charles Darwin University. 

$5000 approx. total

1 Year

1 scholarship offered

NT

Closed

Open: 05/01/2026

Close: 06/03/2026

The Elite Athlete and Performer Program (EAPP) is a Sport, Wellbeing and Residential Life initiative to support student athletes and performers dual career. This EAPP Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Scholarship is designed to support elite athletes/performers who participate in n...

$3000 approx. total

1 Year

2 scholarships offered

Closed

Open: 26/11/2025

Close: 01/03/2026

Established in 2016, based on the foundational principles it is the desire of St John of God Health Care NSW Services to support ACU’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing students through a scholarship.The St John of God Health Care (SJGHC) Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) expresses the...

$20000 approx. total

3 Years

2 scholarships offered

NSW

Closed

Open: 23/10/2025

Close: 01/03/2026

Established by the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, Queensland, through Australian Catholic University, to commemorate and honour the work of their foundress Mary MacKillop. This scholarship recognises and rewards undergraduate ACU students who can demonstrate support and involvement in ...

$4000 approx. total

1 Year

1 scholarship offered

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/08/2025

Close: 01/03/2026

Featured Promoted

Established by the Presentation Sisters, Queensland Congregation, to commemorate and honour the work of their founder Nano Nagle. The specific goal of these scholarships is to encourage the development of leadership skills of emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders through professi...

$4000 approx. total

1 Year

1 scholarship offered

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/08/2025

Close: 01/03/2026

Emeritus Professor Ellen Maev O'Collins established this endowed scholarship in 2015 to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students undertaking health sciences and social work studies - she greatly serviced the people of Papua New Guinea with her studies and work in her career.&...

$3500 approx. total

1 Year

1 scholarship offered

ACT

Closed

Open: 01/08/2025

Close: 01/03/2026

This scholarship was established in 2016, as a tangible memorial to Jodie Reid, a 1996 ACU Nursing Graduate and Centaur Medalist, who died in 2004, aged 27, after suffering from Diabetes mellitus for 25 years.

$4000 approx. total

No Duration

1 scholarship offered

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/08/2025

Close: 01/03/2026

This Scholarship was created in 2004 by the Pratt Foundation which was established by philanthropists Richard and Jeanne Pratt. 

$4000 approx. total

1 Semester

NSW, QLD, ACT

Closed

Open: 01/08/2025

Close: 01/03/2026

This scholarship provides financial support to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students who are undertaking a UTS undergraduate Science degree. 

$15000 approx. total

3 Years

NSW

Closed

Open: 24/11/2025

Close: 02/03/2026

The Commonwealth of Australia provides funds under the Indigenous Student Success Program to improve higher education access, encourage Indigenous people to commence an undergraduate degree course at The University of Western Australia and increase higher education participation and success for I...

$3000 approx. total

1 Year

WA

Closed

Open: 15/12/2025

Close: 03/03/2026

The Commonwealth of Australia provides funds under the Indigenous Student Success Program to improve higher education access, encourage Indigenous people to undertake an undergraduate course or an approved postgraduate course at The University of Western Australia and increase higher education pa...

$12000 approx. total

3 Years

50 scholarships offered

WA

Closed

Open: 15/12/2025

Close: 03/03/2026

The Godfrey and Ione Hester Indigenous Pathway Scholarship in Medicine was established by Dr. Vanessa Harvey in memory of her parents, to provide assistance to an Indigenous student who has accepted an offer of assured entry into the course for the degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD) at The Univers...

$40000 approx. total

4 Years

1 scholarship offered

WA

Closed

Open: 15/12/2025

Close: 03/03/2026

INPEX Ichthys Pty Ltd has donated funds to The University of Western Australia to provide a scholarship to encourage and assist high achieving Indigenous students to commence an undergraduate degree course at the University.

$15000 approx. total

3 Years

2 scholarships offered

WA

Closed

Open: 15/12/2025

Close: 03/03/2026

Jack and Eleanor Bendat donated funds to The University of Western Australia to assist and encourage meritorious Indigenous students from regional Western Australia to continue and complete their first undergraduate degree course.

$15000 approx. total

3 Years

2 scholarships offered

WA

Closed

Open: 15/12/2025

Close: 03/03/2026

The Bendat Family Foundation has donated funds to UWA to establish a fund to provide scholarships to encourage and assist high-achieving Indigenous Australian students, who are facing financial hardship, to pursue a Juris Doctor. 

$15000 approx. total

Duration of the Program

WA

Closed

Open: 15/12/2025

Close: 03/03/2026

This Scholarship was created in memory of the late Gloria Brennan, to assist Australian Aboriginal students to pursue an undergraduate degree at the University of Western Australia.

$2500 approx. total

1 Year

WA

Closed

Open: 15/12/2025

Close: 03/03/2026

The late Eveline Rosina Glyde donated funds to the University of Western Australia to assist and encourage Indigenous Australian and Torres Strait Islander students to pursue a bridging course or undergraduate degree course at the university.

$4000 approx. total

1 Year

WA

Closed

Open: 15/12/2025

Close: 03/03/2026

Buurabalayji Thalanyji Aboriginal Corporation have donated funds to the University of Western Australia (UWA) to assist and encourage a high-achieving student to pursue a Bachelor fo Arts (Honours) majoring in Archaeology at UWA.

$40000 approx. total

1 Year

WA

Closed

Open: 15/12/2025

Close: 03/03/2026

Arcadia Landscape Design has donated funds to UWA to assist and encourage a high-achieving Indigenous Australian to commence and pursue studies in Landscape Architecture at UWA.  This provides $5000 per annum.

$20000 approx. total

4 Years

1 scholarship offered

WA

Closed

Open: 15/12/2025

Close: 03/03/2026

This Scholarship is to support further engagement with the sciences amongst First Nations Australians. The Scholarship funds will be used to support overcome obstacles to education in the fields of Science, Engineering and Technology. 

$15000 approx. total

3 Years

1 scholarship offered

NT

Closed

Open: 28/01/2026

Close: 06/03/2026

This scholarship provides financial support to a Fist Nations Australian student studying at Charles Darwin University. 

$5000 approx. total

1 Year

1 scholarship offered

NT

Closed

Open: 05/01/2026

Close: 06/03/2026

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