Lonsdale Scholarship

For students in vocational or higher education who can demonstrate circumstances impacting their education; worth up to $5,000.

To be eligible for this scholarship you must:

• be an Australian or New Zealand citizen, Australian permanent resident or Australian permanent humanitarian visa holder or an international student
• be enrolling full-time in a certificate IV, diploma or degree program at RMIT in semester 1 and 2 2023
• have at least one year of full-time study in your program left to complete

If you did not graduate from the Lonsdale Institute, we encourage you to still apply. However, you must be able to demonstrate both financial and educational disadvantage (circumstances which impact your ability to study) to be considered.

Applicants can demonstrate financial disadvantage by:

• receiving a government tested low income benefit or having a Centrelink Health Care Card

Applicants can demonstrate circumstances 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

Preference will be given to students who graduated from the Lonsdale Institute and are enrolled in a RMIT program by 30 January 2023.