Deda Scholarship

For postgraduate by coursework students enrolled full-time in a health-related discipline who can demonstrate disadvantage; worth up to $5,000.

To be eligible for this scholarship you must:

• be an Australian or New Zealand citizen, an Australian permanent resident or a permanent humanitarian visa holder
• be enrolling full-time in semester 1 2023 in a health-related graduate diploma or postgraduate by coursework program at RMIT (or part-time with exceptional circumstances)
• have at least one year of full-time study left to complete in your program
• be able to demonstrate circumstance/s which impact your ability to study such as:
• receiving a government tested low income benefit or having a Centrelink Health Care Card
• having a long-term medical condition or disability
• have previously/are currently living in foster/kinship care or are a ward of the state
• experiencing personal/family/social difficulties
• be from an interstate or rural/regional area and moving/moved to Melbourne to study at RMIT
• have previously/are currently living in foster/kinship care or are a ward of the state
• be from an under-represented background such as
• Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
• were born overseas, are from a non-English background and recently migrated to Australia
• current or former refugee
• completed secondary school at a School Network Access Program school
• not have previously completed the same level of program or higher, e.g. if you plan to study a Master of Clinical Psychology, you should not have previously completed another masters degree