Scholarships & Grants

Some scholarships can be held concurrently. Review the conditions of your scholarship when you receive your offer.

Note: You cannot receive both the Melbourne Chancellor’s Scholarship and Narrm Scholarship.

Scholarships have their own conditions regarding deferral. Review the conditions of your scholarship when you receive your offer.

It is important to understand the selection criteria of the specific scholarship as this may provide additional information about how it is awarded.

Indigenous scholarships, grants and bursaries are awarded to students who have established their Indigenous eligibility. For more information on establishing eligibility, please read the Eligibility webpage

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If you believe you should have received a scholarship and did not, please contact the Scholarships Team including as much information as possible.

Scholarship benefits can only be activated once you have:

• Accepted your scholarship offer
• Commenced your course
• Updated your bank details
• Met the conditions of your scholarship (as specified in your scholarship offer).

Payments are made via the University’s Payroll on set pay days and will appear as a University of Melbourne salary on your bank statement.

The University does not provide payslips for scholarship payments.

Most scholarships provided by the University of Melbourne are equity or merit-based scholarships. Payments from these scholarships are exempt from the Centrelink income test as long as they are less than the Centrelink payment threshold. Any scholarship amounts over the threshold may affect your Centrelink payment rate.

Commonwealth scholarships, or scholarships that provide a tuition fee remission or payments to a third party (e.g. an accommodation provider), are not considered income for Centrelink purposes.

If you have applied for or are receiving Centrelink benefits, you are obliged to notify Centrelink of any scholarships you have received. We will not do this on your behalf.

If you are asked for a scholarship reference number, you can fill the field with your student ID number.

If you are asked for evidence of your scholarship(s), we can provide you with a letter including the details of your current (active) scholarships. You can request one by submitting an online enquiry.

For further information, please refer to the Department of Human Services website.