Scholarships and bursaries can provide financial support throughout your studies to relieve financial pressures and allow you more time to focus on your study.
Scholarship and bursary applications for Semester 1 are open from 1 September - 30 November (in the year prior) and for Semester 2, 1 April - 31 May.
In addition to UniSC's main undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships, Indigenous students are encouraged to apply for the following:
- Indigenous Student Success Program (ISSP) - commenced on 1 January 2017 and subsumed the former Commonwealth Scholarships Program (CSP). ISSP scholarships include:
- UniSC Indigenous Education Costs Scholarship - Semesters 1 and 2
- UniSC Indigenous Relocation Costs Scholarship - Semesters 1 and 2
- Buranga Centre Study on Country Scholarship - Semesters 1 and 2
- Buranga Centre Summer Enrolment Scholarship - Semester 1
- Alliance Automation Scholarship - Semester 1
- CPA Indigenous Bursary - Semester 2
- Fraser Coast Regional Council Bursary - Semester 1
- Graduate Women QLD Inc. Sunshine Coast Indigenous Women's Bursary - Semester 2
- Indigenous Education Placement Bursaries - Semester 1 and 2
- Kal’owendha Bursary - Semester 1
- UniSC Indigenous Scholarships (Honours, HDR, Postgraduate) - Semesters 1 and 2 (individual application form)
- Zonta Club of Noosa Indigenous Women's Bursary - Semester 1 (individual application form)
Headstart Students
- Headstart Indigenous Scholarship - Semesters 1 and 2
- The Headstart Program is designed to create a seamless transition from school to university allowing Year 11 and 12 students to complete accredited undergraduate university courses while still at school. An Indigenous specific scholarship is available.
- Buranga Centre Continuing Headstart Scholarship - Semester 1
Tertiary Preparation Pathway Students
- Indigenous Student Success Program (ISSP) includes payments for students studying in UniSC's Tertiary Preparation Pathway (TPP) program and commenced on 1 January 2017 and subsuming the former Commonwealth Scholarships Program (CSP). ISSP scholarships for Enabling students include:
- UniSC Indigenous Enabling Education Costs Scholarship - Semesters 1 and 2 (individual application form)
- UniSC Indigenous Enabling Relocation Costs Scholarship - Semesters 1 and 2 (individual application form)
- Graduate Women Qld Inc Sunshine Coast Branch Bursary - Semester 1 (individual application form)
- University of the Third Age (U3A) Merit-Based Equity Bursary - Semester 1
- UniSC Equity Bursary - Semesters 1 and 2
- UniSC Study Support Bursaries - Semester 2
- Zonta Club of Caloundra Equity Bursary - Semester 1
- Advance Plants Environmental Science Indigenous Scholarship
- Aurora Education Foundation - Scholarships and Bursaries
- Australian College of Nursing Scholarships
- Australian Rotary Health Research Fund: Indigenous Health Scholarship
- BCG First Nations Internship & Scholarship Program
- Brisbane Catholic Education Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student Teaching Scholarships
- Frank Hall-Bentick Education Fund
- Indigenous Time at Sea Scholarship
- Jilya Institute Indigenous Psychology Scholarship
- Neville Bonner Memorial Scholarship
- Pallottine Aboriginal Scholarship
- Pearl Duncan Teaching Scholarship
- Puggy Hunter Memorial Scholarship
- Teachers of STEM Initiative (ToSI) Scholarship
- Tertiary Access Payment (TAP) Program
- The QAS Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Scholarship Program
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Contact Buranga Centre for more information or for assistance with your application.