This Scholarship is funded by the Australian Government under the Indigenous Student Success Program. It is valued at $9,000 (pro-rata for part-time) The purpose of the Commonwealth Education Costs Scholarships is to widen participation in higher education on campus for Aboriginal and Torres St...

$36000 approx. total

Duration of the Program

20 scholarships offered

NSW

Closed

Close: 05/01/2025

Close: 02/03/2025

Mary MacKillop believed in the power of education to transform lives. In her legacy the Sisters of Saint Joseph have continued to empower individuals and communities by providing access to education. Since 1998 tertiary scholarships for the First Nation Peoples of the lands in which we live have ...

$17500 approx. total

4 Years

VIC

Closed

Open: 05/09/2024

Close: 07/01/2025

The Bertalli Family Foundation would like to create a transformational scholarship program for Indigenous nurses to change lives. This will enable nurses to deliver higher quality, culturally appropriate health care services 

$37500 approx. total

3 Years

VIC

Closed

Open: 05/09/2024

Close: 07/01/2025

People Measures endeavours to encourage Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students to consider organisational psychology as a career. 

$5000 approx. total

1 Year

VIC

Closed

Open: 05/09/2024

Close: 07/01/2025

This scholarship provides financial assistance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students commencing a coursework degree in the Faculty in Arts and Social Sciences.    The value is $8,500 per annum for up to 4 years.

$34000 approx. total

4 Years

NSW

Closed

Open: 06/12/2024

Close: 08/01/2025

A core value of the JCU/NQBP partnership is to provide the opportunity for high school students to study marine science at JCU. The funding will allow students to focus on achieving the most from their time with JCU, in addition to working closely with JCU and NQBP staff, as part of a mentorship ...

$15000 approx. total

3 Years

2 scholarships offered

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024

Close: 10/01/2025

This scholarship is named after: Professor Ross Spark (1954-2013) who was the Head of the School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences at James Cook University Cairns in 2011 until the time of his death in 2013. He is remembered for the passion and expertise he had in he...

$2000 approx. total

1 Semester

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024

Close: 10/01/2025

Established in 2003 by Carolyn Dixon, a psychiatric mental-health nurse, in memory of her mother Thelma Myers. The purpose of the scholarship is to encourage and facilitate Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander nurses and midwives to continue their studies at a postgraduate level. T...

$5000 approx. total

1 Year

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024

Close: 10/01/2025

Featured Promoted

This Bursary is to promote community inclusion excellence by supporting participation of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students in social work field education. 

$1000 approx. total

1 Year

3 scholarships offered

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024

Close: 10/01/2025

This scholarship was established in honour of Amuthan Annamalai, a Year 6 medical student at JCU who passed away in 2013.  He was passionate about enabling Indigenous Australians to access tertiary education and his father, who established this scholarship, hopes this scholarship will g...

$25000 approx. total

Duration of the Program

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024

Close: 10/01/2025

This scholarship supports an Indigenous undergraduate student in their progress towards completing their course.     This scholarship awards $6,000 per year for full-time for the duration of your degree ($3,000 part-time). 

$12000 approx. total

Duration of the Program

1 scholarship offered

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024

Close: 10/01/2025

This scholarship was established to provide support and encouragement to students studying in STEM courses at JCU. 

$5000 approx. total

1 Year

4 scholarships offered

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024

Close: 10/01/2025

The Balnaves Foundation wants to create a better Australia through education, medicine and the arts.    This scholarship offers $30,000 per year for the duration of your degree, up to $180,000. 

$180000 approx. total

Duration of the Program

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024

Close: 10/01/2025

This scholarship provides housing support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students who live on campus at JCU Townsville, Bebegu Yumba or JCU Cairns, Nguma-bada Campus. This suite of scholarships are proudly supported by UniLodge, the McCall MacBain Foundation and JCU.   It cov...

$30000 approx. total

Duration of the Program

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024

Close: 10/01/2025

This Scholarship supports the academic achievement of Indigenous students at JCU. 

$5000 approx. total

1 Year

4 scholarships offered

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024

Close: 10/01/2025

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) would like support further engagement with the sciences for Indigenous Australians, by supporting JCU Indigenous STEM students to complete their studies.   This scholarship support Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait ...

$10000 approx. total

Duration of the Program

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024

Close: 10/01/2025

The Clermont Aboriginal Community Development Fund (ACDF) Scholarship will support one student of Clermont Belyando Area Native Title Claim Group descent or Aboriginal students enrolled in any VET Cert III, VET Cert IV, VET Diploma, Undergraduate or Postgraduate degrees at CQUniversity.

$50000 approx. total

Duration of the Program

1 scholarship offered

QLD

Closed

Open: 03/10/2024

Close: 12/01/2025

This scholarship is provided by the friends of Charles Sturt University, the many service organisations, individuals and corporations throughout our region who give generously via the Charles Sturt University Foundation Trust in support of the University and its students. Their gifts allow Cha...

$5000 approx. total

1 Semester

NSW

Closed

Close: 13/01/2025

Ear, nose and throat surgeon Bal Krishan has practised in Wagga Wagga for more than four decades. A supporter of higher education and healthcare in regional Australia, Dr Krishan made a substantial donation to the CSU Foundation Trust in 2008. This donation enabled the creation of this scholar...

$2000 approx. total

1 Semester

NSW

Closed

Close: 13/01/2025

Wagga Wagga Local Aboriginal Land Council’s (LALC) aim is the spiritual healing of youth through talking about nutrition, lifestyle, culture and community awareness. It also creates a place where young people can come and feel safe and have good people around them watching out for them. The LA...

$3000 approx. total

1 Semester

NSW

Closed

Close: 13/01/2025

This Scholarship is funded by the Australian Government under the Indigenous Student Success Program. It is valued at $9,000 (pro-rata for part-time) The purpose of the Commonwealth Education Costs Scholarships is to widen participation in higher education on campus for Aboriginal and Torres St...

$36000 approx. total

Duration of the Program

20 scholarships offered

NSW

Closed

Close: 05/01/2025

Close: 02/03/2025

Mary MacKillop believed in the power of education to transform lives. In her legacy the Sisters of Saint Joseph have continued to empower individuals and communities by providing access to education. Since 1998 tertiary scholarships for the First Nation Peoples of the lands in which we live have ...

$17500 approx. total

4 Years

VIC

Closed

Open: 05/09/2024

Close: 07/01/2025

The Bertalli Family Foundation would like to create a transformational scholarship program for Indigenous nurses to change lives. This will enable nurses to deliver higher quality, culturally appropriate health care services 

$37500 approx. total

3 Years

VIC

Closed

Open: 05/09/2024

Close: 07/01/2025

People Measures endeavours to encourage Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students to consider organisational psychology as a career. 

$5000 approx. total

1 Year

VIC

Closed

Open: 05/09/2024

Close: 07/01/2025

This scholarship provides financial assistance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students commencing a coursework degree in the Faculty in Arts and Social Sciences.    The value is $8,500 per annum for up to 4 years.

$34000 approx. total

4 Years

NSW

Closed

Open: 06/12/2024

Close: 08/01/2025

A core value of the JCU/NQBP partnership is to provide the opportunity for high school students to study marine science at JCU. The funding will allow students to focus on achieving the most from their time with JCU, in addition to working closely with JCU and NQBP staff, as part of a mentorship ...

$15000 approx. total

3 Years

2 scholarships offered

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024

Close: 10/01/2025

This scholarship is named after: Professor Ross Spark (1954-2013) who was the Head of the School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences at James Cook University Cairns in 2011 until the time of his death in 2013. He is remembered for the passion and expertise he had in he...

$2000 approx. total

1 Semester

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024

Close: 10/01/2025

Established in 2003 by Carolyn Dixon, a psychiatric mental-health nurse, in memory of her mother Thelma Myers. The purpose of the scholarship is to encourage and facilitate Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander nurses and midwives to continue their studies at a postgraduate level. T...

$5000 approx. total

1 Year

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024

Close: 10/01/2025

Featured Promoted

This Bursary is to promote community inclusion excellence by supporting participation of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students in social work field education. 

$1000 approx. total

1 Year

3 scholarships offered

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024

Close: 10/01/2025

This scholarship was established in honour of Amuthan Annamalai, a Year 6 medical student at JCU who passed away in 2013.  He was passionate about enabling Indigenous Australians to access tertiary education and his father, who established this scholarship, hopes this scholarship will g...

$25000 approx. total

Duration of the Program

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024

Close: 10/01/2025

This scholarship supports an Indigenous undergraduate student in their progress towards completing their course.     This scholarship awards $6,000 per year for full-time for the duration of your degree ($3,000 part-time). 

$12000 approx. total

Duration of the Program

1 scholarship offered

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024

Close: 10/01/2025

This scholarship was established to provide support and encouragement to students studying in STEM courses at JCU. 

$5000 approx. total

1 Year

4 scholarships offered

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024

Close: 10/01/2025

The Balnaves Foundation wants to create a better Australia through education, medicine and the arts.    This scholarship offers $30,000 per year for the duration of your degree, up to $180,000. 

$180000 approx. total

Duration of the Program

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024

Close: 10/01/2025

This scholarship provides housing support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students who live on campus at JCU Townsville, Bebegu Yumba or JCU Cairns, Nguma-bada Campus. This suite of scholarships are proudly supported by UniLodge, the McCall MacBain Foundation and JCU.   It cov...

$30000 approx. total

Duration of the Program

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024

Close: 10/01/2025

This Scholarship supports the academic achievement of Indigenous students at JCU. 

$5000 approx. total

1 Year

4 scholarships offered

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024

Close: 10/01/2025

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) would like support further engagement with the sciences for Indigenous Australians, by supporting JCU Indigenous STEM students to complete their studies.   This scholarship support Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait ...

$10000 approx. total

Duration of the Program

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024

Close: 10/01/2025

The Clermont Aboriginal Community Development Fund (ACDF) Scholarship will support one student of Clermont Belyando Area Native Title Claim Group descent or Aboriginal students enrolled in any VET Cert III, VET Cert IV, VET Diploma, Undergraduate or Postgraduate degrees at CQUniversity.

$50000 approx. total

Duration of the Program

1 scholarship offered

QLD

Closed

Open: 03/10/2024

Close: 12/01/2025

This scholarship is provided by the friends of Charles Sturt University, the many service organisations, individuals and corporations throughout our region who give generously via the Charles Sturt University Foundation Trust in support of the University and its students. Their gifts allow Cha...

$5000 approx. total

1 Semester

NSW

Closed

Close: 13/01/2025

Ear, nose and throat surgeon Bal Krishan has practised in Wagga Wagga for more than four decades. A supporter of higher education and healthcare in regional Australia, Dr Krishan made a substantial donation to the CSU Foundation Trust in 2008. This donation enabled the creation of this scholar...

$2000 approx. total

1 Semester

NSW

Closed

Close: 13/01/2025

Wagga Wagga Local Aboriginal Land Council’s (LALC) aim is the spiritual healing of youth through talking about nutrition, lifestyle, culture and community awareness. It also creates a place where young people can come and feel safe and have good people around them watching out for them. The LA...

$3000 approx. total

1 Semester

NSW

Closed

Close: 13/01/2025

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