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Griffith Business School offers many scholarships, awards, and prizes to support, recognise, and encourage new and continuing students to pursue their aspirations.
The School provides an inclusive and equal opportunities community for all, and our scholarships reflect this ethos. Eligibility is determined by factors including your background, chosen study field, hardships you’ve experienced, and your achievements so far
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Co-curricular awards
Applications for the 2024 co-curricular awards will open in September.
Leadership Award
The School's Leadership Award recognises a student who has demonstrated responsible leadership and who demonstrates the highest levels of integrity and ethical behaviour in their academic or community endeavours.
Value: $500 cash
Sustainability Award
The School's Sustainability Award recognises a student who demonstrates an outstanding commitment to sustainability, including social, environmental or business sustainability. The work of the recipient may be in service to Griffith University or the wider community.
Value: $500 cash
Community Service Award
The Griffith Business School Community Service Award recognises a student who has made a positive difference to the wider community through active and enthusiastic participation in community service or volunteering initiatives locally during the academic year.
Value: $500 cash
BusinessPLUS Award
The Griffith Business School BusinessPLUS Award recognises a student who has demonstrated strong engagement in the Griffith BusinessPLUS program. The BusinessPLUS program supports and encourages students to participate in career enhancing activities that support their employability.
Value: 3 awards available valued at $250 each
2023 Award Co-curricular Winners
Leadership Award
Ms Sarah Bourke
Sustainability Award
Ms Ariana Doolan
Community Service Award
Ms Chrystal Coughlan
BusinessPLUS Award
Ms Cheyenne Apap
BusinessPLUS Award
Ms Natalia Drazek
BusinessPLUS Award
Ms Jennifer Osborne
2022 Co-curricular Award winners
Leadership Award
- Demila Gabriel
Community Service Award
- Robert Hall
Sustainability Award
- Grace Mander
BusinessPLUS Awards
- McKenzie Callcott
- Jeffrey Langley
Academic awards
Academic Achievement Award
The Griffith Business School Academic Achievement Awards recognise students who are achieving at the highest level.
They are awarded to the student(s) who have completed at least 80 credit points in a Griffith Business School program and achieve a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 7.0.
Value: $500 cash
Pro Vice Chancellor (Business) Academic Excellence Award
The Pro Vice Chancellor (Business) Academic Excellence Award recognises overall outstanding academic achievement of a candidate undertaking a degree hosted by Griffith Business School.
It is awarded to the student who achieves the highest aggregate results of all students in undergraduate programs hosted by Griffith Business School.
Value: $1000 cash
More academic prizes and awards
GO GLOBAL Funding
Griffith University aims to provide one grant (scholarship) to each student on an approved overseas program. The grant can be used for co-curricula or curricular experiences. Grant values vary from $250 to $8,000 depending on the program type, location and credit point value. Students can also apply for an OS-Help loan to the value of $6,791 (studies outside Asia) or $8,149 (studies in Asia).
Postgraduate (PhD) Research Top-up Scholarships
Griffith Business School is awarding prestigious top-up scholarships to outstanding new PhD candidates to work with our world-renowned researchers on PhD projects in the area of business research.
The top-up scholarships are designed to support and encourage top-quality PhD research by providing successful candidates up to an additional $5,000 per year on top of their PhD Scholarship stipend for three years duration, contingent on satisfactory progress.
The top-up scholarships are an allowance of up to $5,000 per annum paid as a fortnightly stipend. The Scholarships will be awarded for up to three years.
The top-up scholarships are available to domestic and international candidates who:
- are new candidates who have an Honours 1 degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field;
- will be enrolled through Griffith Business School;
- are also applying for a Research Training Program (RTP) or University-funded scholarship.
Please note; there will be no formal application process for new candidates. The Griffith Business School scholarship committee will assess applicants who meet the above criteria and will be awarded on a merit based system and awarded by order of overall final rank within the School. The awarding of top-up scholarships will be subject to funding availability and reviewed on an annual basis.
For further details please email: gbshdr@griffith.edu.au.