Student Management Services Undergraduate Scholarships

Terms & Conditions

These conditions apply to all scholarships bestowed by the University of Melbourne for both undergraduate and graduate coursework courses excluding travelling scholarships or scholarships funded by trusts or donations from external organisations, or those scholarships that are administered by the University on behalf of other organisations. These are: Asian Development Bank - Japan (ADB) Scholarship, PSA Medical/Dental Scholarship, Mildura Alumni Scholarship and the Eleanor and Joseph Wertheim Scholarship. Please refer to the relevant webpages for their specific terms and conditions.

Key Terms for information on terminology.

Academic progress requirements
Additional subjects
Citizenship changes
Concurrent Diplomas
Concurrent Scholarship Awards
Course transfer
Deferring
Duration of allowance
Duration of fee remission
Honours
Leave
Part-time
Repeating subjects
Summer subjects
Further information
Pre-2009 terms and conditions

Key Terms

Benefits - components of the scholarship that provide value to the recipient such as fee remission or allowance payments.

Conditions - regulations that govern scholarship tenure ensuring the scholarship benefits are delivered only to eligible students.

Full study load - Normally completion of 100 points within a calendar year but may be broken down by teaching periods (e.g. 50 points in Semester 2)

Full-time enrolment - Determined on the basis of enrolment per semester for semesters 1 and 2.  Normally, a study load of at least 37.5 points in each of semesters 1 and 2.

Part-time enrolment - Determined on the basis of enrolment per semester for semesters 1 and 2. Less than 37.5 points in either semester would normally constitute a part-time enrolment. 

Semester - In accordance with current federal Government guidelines, subjects undertaken from:

Academic Progress Requirements

Recipients will retain their scholarship provided they maintain eligibility and their Student Centre permits their continued enrolment in their course.

Exceptions: Recipients of a National or a National Medicine Scholarship are expected to pass all subjects in their first year and achieve at least a 70% average in the second and subsequent years of their course.

Additional Subjects

Scholarships that provide a fee remission WILL NOT cover:

Scholarships that provide a fee remission WILL cover:

If completion of an over-enrolment requires a scholarship recipient to enrol for longer than the normal duration of their course, any allowance component of their scholarship will not be extended.

Citizenship/Residency changes

Students should always inform the MSO if their residency status changes. Normally this will not affect the benefits of their scholarship but may require different administrative arrangements.

RASA scholarship recipients who become permanent residents will lose their scholarship as they become eligible for a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP) and Centrelink benefits.

Concurrent Diplomas

Scholarship recipients will be permitted to extend their scholarship to cover one concurrent diploma. This applies to fee remission and allowance components of the scholarships.

Concurrent Scholarship Awards

2009 Pay Dates, Amounts and Funding Source
The table below shows when and from what source Commonwealth and Access scholarships are paid. Please note that the component from Commonwealth funds (CF) does not affect your Centrelink payment but Access funds (AF)should be declared as income. Please see also Centrelink and Taxation.

Scholarship 20 February 3 April 4 September

Total

CECS   $1103.50 (CF) $1103.50 (CF) $2207
CAS   $2207.50 (CF) $2207.50 (CF) $4415
Access $1000 (AF) $2500 (AF) $2500 (AF) $6000
Access-CECS $1000 (AF) $1103.50 (CF)
$1396.50 (AF)
$1103.50 (CF)
$1396.50 (AF)
$6000
Access-CAS $1000 (AF) $2207.50 (CF)
$1292.50 (AF)
$2207.50 (CF) $1292.50 (AF) $8000

Course Transfer

Exceptions:

The following scholarships are sponsored by Faculties:

Recipients of any of the above scholarships wishing to transfer to a different course must receive approval for continuation of their scholarship from the Faculty responsible for that course. If the Faculty concerned is not prepared to continue the scholarship, it will be terminated if the student transfers to the new course.

Recipients of a Commonwealth Scholarship may transfer to courses offered by institutions other than the University of Melbourne and re-apply for a Commonwealth Scholarship at their new institution. The award of a new Commonwealth Scholarship is not guaranteed.

Deferment of Scholarship

Deferment of a scholarship will be permitted providing the recipient is permitted to defer commencement of their course.

Duration of Allowance

Exception: Students awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship are entitled to receive the associated allowance for up to four years (or eight semesters) providing they maintain eligibility.

Duration of Fee Remission

Honours

Scholarship recipients will not be permitted to extend their scholarship to cover an Honours year unless the terms and conditions of their scholarship at the time permits them to do so. Previous years terms and conditions

Exception: Commonwealth scholarship recipients can extend their scholarship to cover an Honours year providing they remain eligible for the scholarship and do not exceed the maximum number of payments allowed. According to the Government Commonwealth Scholarship Guidelines on the DEEWR website at 2.10 STUDENT ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENT
S2.10.1  Basic Eligibility Requirement:
(1) A student is not eligible for an Ordinary-CECS or an Ordinary-CAS if they:
(g)… already have completed the requirements of a course of study (with any provider) regarded by the eligible scholarship provider to be equivalent to or higher than an Australian bachelor’s award, unless each such award is a prerequisite to their current undergraduate course of study or graduate diploma (or equivalent postgraduate course of study) in an area of National Priority required for initial registration and there is no alternative pathway into that course of study at that eligible scholarship provider.

Note: a Commonwealth Scholarship is intended primarily for students undertaking an initial qualification. For example, if a student completes a Bachelor of Commerce as well as a Bachelor of Science, then they are no longer eligible because the Bachelor of Commerce is not a prerequisite course for an Honours degree in Psychology.

Leave of Absence from Scholarship

Part-time Enrolment

Exception: Commonwealth Scholarship recipients will only be able to receive the normal maximum number of payments allowed by the Government irrespective of whether they are part-time or full-time (8 payments for CECS and CAS).  Commonwealth Scholarship recipients must still have socially compelling reasons to retain their scholarship and study part-time.

Information regarding tax for those enrolled part-time.

Repeating Subjects

Scholarships that provide a fee remission will not normally sponsor subjects that are being undertaken to make up for other subjects that the student has failed, or from which they have withdrawn after the census date.

Summer Subjects

In most cases fee remission scholarships will fund summer subjects.

For further information

If you have any questions after you have read the above terms and conditions, please send an email from: www.undergradschols.unimelb.edu.au/query


Pre-2009

The above terms and conditions are for all currently held scholarships, however if you would like to refer to scholarship terms and conditions prior to 2009 please see below.

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