Postgraduate Business Scholarship for Indigenous Australians

You can apply for this scholarship via our application process.

Application information

We use the following sections of the application to consider you for this scholarship:

Study details

• Tertiary education history
• Program preferences
• Program (current students).

Achievements

• Referee reports: You must have one referee report that supports your application (can be attached to your CV or via the application's auto-email).Income and expenditure:

Personal background

• Income and Expenditure: provide details of your financial situation (optional).
• Scholarships: Do you have any scholarships?

Statements

• Personal statement: In 500 words or less, outline how the scholarship will support your current and/or aspirations in leadership. In this statement, you are encouraged to demonstrate value alignment to Griffith Business School values.
• Supporting documentation: You must upload the following:
  • CV—detail any recent academic achievements and/or work history
  • Confirmation of Heritage—optional if held (a Letter of Confirmation is usually obtained from an incorporated Indigenous organisation and Stamped with their Common Seal).
  Please upload the following formats only: PDF, Word, JPEG or Excel. We cannot guarantee other formats will be accepted.

Value

The recipient of the Postgraduate Business Scholarship for Indigenous Australians will have 50% of tuition fees paid each trimester enrolled, for a maximum of four years. Scholarship payments made to part-time students may be taxable.

Payment

Contributions to tuition fees will be made prior to census date, subject to the recipient satisfying scholarship terms and conditions.

To remain eligible for the scholarship, recipients will be required to:

• remaining enrolled in the Griffith postgraduate business program
• maintain a Grade Point Average of 4.5
• seek approval from the Business School prior to taking a leave of absence
• gain approval from the Business School for any cross-institutional study.

If a recipient of a scholarship changes their program of study to another postgraduate coursework program offered by Griffith Business School, the scholarship will be retained (unless the program is Accelerated Online or Open University Australia program).

Scholarships are not transferable to other students in any circumstances.

Griffith Business School reserves the right to not award all or some of the scholarships in a given trimester or year.

Recipients have a maximum of two years to complete their graduate certificate or four years to complete their masters degree.

Recipients agree to participate in reasonable promotional activity related to the scholarship, at the School's request.

The scholarship will be forfeited if the recipient:

• changes their program of study to a program offered by another faculty
• cancels their enrolment in the program.

The above conditions are verified each trimester at census date. If a scholarship recipient fails to successfully meet these conditions, it is at the discretion of the selection committee to withhold the trimester instalment or terminate the scholarship.

Successful applicants cannot be in receipt of any other scholarship or bursary funded by Griffith University.

Applications, including referee reports and any supporting documentation, must be completed and submitted by the closing date.

Offers are made via email.

Applicants may be shortlisted and be required to provide additional information.

Griffith University reserves the right to withdraw an advertised scholarship at any time.