The Lord Mayor's Multicultural Scholarship Program

You can apply for this scholarship via our scholarship application process.

Application information

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

Study details

• Program

Personal background

• Income and expenditure
• Scholarships

Statements

• Personal statement: In 500 words or less, outline your career goals, community involvement and scholarship benefit.
• Challenges statement: In 250 words or less, detail how financial circumstances impact your continuing studies at Griffith University.
• Supporting documentation: Please upload the following:
  • A current CV/resume.
  • A statement that demonstrates links to your cultural heritage through your community involvement, details your family heritage and outlines whether you or your parent/s were born overseas and you speak another language.

  Please upload the following formats only: PDF, Word, JPEG or Excel. We cannot guarantee other formats will be accepted.

Application assessment

Information provided by individuals in their Griffith online scholarship application is assessed and ranked in accordance with the following Educational Disadvantage Assessment categories:

1. Financial Hardship
2. Home Environment and Responsibilities
3. English Language Difficulty
4. Personal Illness and Disability
5. Educational Disruption
6. Relocation within Australia

Shortlisted applicants will be contacted for further information.

Value

The maximum value of each scholarship is up to $15,000.  Instalments of $7,500 are payable in trimesters 1 and 2 provided conditions are met.

Payment

Payments are made up to three weeks after the census date, subject to the recipient maintaining ongoing eligibility requirements.

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

• remain enrolled as a full-time student in an approved Griffith Business School undergraduate degree
• maintain a minimum GPA of 4.5
• supply a progress report each trimester to be sent to the donor: the Council's International Relations and Multicultural Affairs team
• participate in career development, networking and mentoring opportunities made available by the University and Council from time to time.

The recipient may also be invited to attend and receive recognition at the annual Lord Mayor's Multicultural Business Awards in Brisbane.

The above conditions are verified each trimester at census date. If a scholarship recipient fails to successfully meet these conditions, scholarship payments may be withheld, or the scholarship may be terminated.

Applications, including 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.