Jack Ward Scholarship

For Associate and Bachelor degree students in their second year or higher who can demonstrate financial disadvantage and other circumstance/s which impact their ability to study; worth $7,000.

To be eligible for this scholarship, you must:

• be an Australian or New Zealand citizen, Australian permanent resident or a permanent humanitarian visa holder
• have completed at least the first year of your degree by the official results release date in November in the year of your application
• be able to demonstrate financial disadvantage such as:
• receiving a government tested low income benefit or having a Centrelink Health Care Card
• be able to demonstrate circumstance/s which impact your ability to study such as:
• having a long-term medical condition or disability
• 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
• have at least one year of full-time study left to complete
• not have previously completed a program at the same level or higher

Note:

• Students who are completing their first year of an associate or bachelor degree in the year the scholarship would be paid are ineligible to apply
• Students who are directly entering into second or third year of a new program with credit exemptions and who have not studied at least one full-time year of their new program are ineligible to apply