Equity scholarships, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria

Abraham Nyieth, recipient of RMIT Study Support Scholarship.

• University-wide scholarships.
• Scholarships to travel overseas.

• Equity admission schemes.
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• Financial advice
• Housing advice

If you are a student disadvantaged by economic, social or geographic circumstances and facing barriers to accessing education, an RMIT Equity Scholarship can help you achieve your study ambitions.

• Australian Air Pilots Mutual Benefit Fund Scholarship
  For Australian students completing the Diploma of Airline Pilot in 2011; worth $20,000 to undertake a Flight Instructor Rating; applications open October.
• Bayside Group Indigenous Scholarship
  For Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander degree students; worth $7500 in your second and possibly subsequent years; applications open September 2012.
• Boeing Scholarship
  For local and international undergraduate and masters by coursework or research students enrolled in computer science, aviation or engineering; worth $3000; applications open February 2013.
• Brimbank City Council Scholarship
  For local undergraduate & postgraduate environmental planning students who are financially or socially disadvantaged; worth up to $2500; applications open soon.
• Dyne Industries Scholarship
  For local final-year Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) students, worth $7500 plus a paid work placement; applications open 8 June 2012.
• Emeritus Professor John Jackson Scholarship
  For local diploma or degree commencing students demonstrating financial/educational disadvantage; worth tuition fees plus $17,000 contribution to study and living expenses; applications now closed for 2012.
• Ernest William Capp Scholarship
  For local diploma or degree students having financial and/or educational difficulties and can demonstrate a will to succeed; worth $1000; applications now closed for 2012.
• Evelyn Boekemann Scholarship
  For Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students in a diploma or degree program; worth a one-off payment of up to $1000; applications open September 2012.
• George Alexander Foundation Scholarship
  For local diploma or degree students with academic ability, leadership potential, a passion for community involvement and the will to succeed; worth $7500 per year. Applications open September 2012.
• Herbert and Inge Littauer Scholarship
  For a refugee or former refugee studying nursing at diploma or degree level; worth $2500; applications open September 2012.
• Inder Kaur Scholarship
  For female commencing local, current/past refugee degree students having financial difficulties; worth $7000 per year for up to three years; applications now closed for 2012.
• Indigenous Access Scholarship
  For Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander degree students moving to Melbourne from a remote or rural area to start an RMIT program; worth $4485; applications open August 2012.
• Indigenous Commonwealth Accommodation Scholarship
  For Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander degree students from a remote or rural area; worth $4754 per year for up to four years; applications open August 2012.
• Indigenous Commonwealth Education Costs Scholarship
  For Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander degree students; worth $2377 per year for up to four years; applications open August 2012.
• Invergowrie Foundation Scholarships for Women
  For female students with difficulties/disadvantage and who are commencing an undergraduate degree in the College of Science, Engineering and Health; worth $3000 per year for up to four years; not currently taking applications.
• Northcote Trust Scholarship
  For local diploma and degree students progressing from a diploma to a degree in the same field; worth $15,000–$17,000 over two to three years; applications are closed for 2012.
• Orcadia Foundation Scholarship
  For local and refugee students with financial / education disadvantages; worth up to $5000 as a one off payment; applications open September 2012.
• Property Construction and Project Management Merit Equity Scholarship
  For local commencing under-represented or disadvantaged students who have outstanding Year 12 results; worth $5000 in the first year of your Bachelor of Applied Science degree; applications open August 2012.
• RMIT Accommodation Support Scholarship
  For local commencing students moving to Melbourne to study; worth $5200 towards accommodation for one year; applications open August 2012.
• RMIT Equity Notebook Scholarship
  For local certificate IV, diploma or degree students commencing at RMIT from secondary school; provides the use of a notebook computer; applications open August 2012.
• RMIT Equity Travel Grant
  For local students travelling internationally for study; worth $4000; applications open September 2012.
• RMIT Merit Equity Scholarship
  For local commencing degree students with outstanding Year 12 results and financial/educational disadvantage; worth $6000 per year throughout your degree plus $5,000 for overseas education. Applications open August 2012.
• RMIT SAB Equity Laptop Scholarship
  For students studying business courses at RMIT’s new Swanston Academic Building (SAB), Building 80; the scholarship provides a laptop computer for the purpose of studying on and off campus; applications now open.
• RMIT Study Support Scholarship
  For local students with financial difficulties/disadvantage; worth $2500 per year of study; applications open August 2012.
• RMIT Village Accommodation Support Scholarship
  For disadvantaged local commencing students moving to Melbourne to study; worth up to $5334 towards accommodation at RMIT Village in your first year; applications open August 2012.
• Rural Grant
  For Australian diploma or degree students from a farming background; worth a one-off payment of $5000; applications open September 2012.
• SEW-EURODRIVE Scholarship
  For local final-year Bachelor of engineering students with an interest in power engineering; worth $3750 plus 12 weeks of paid vacation work at SEW-EURODRIVE; applications open 8 June 2012.
• School Of Art Honours Travelling Scholarships
  For Art Honours students demonstrating outstanding academic achievement; worth up to $5000; applications open October 2012.
• School of Medical Sciences Pharmacy Regional Scholarship
  For local commencing students from rural or regional areas commencing a Bachelor of Pharmacy program; worth $7000 per year for four years; applications close December.
• St Vincent de Paul Grant for Students with Disabilities
  For students who need assistive technology to study; application times vary

• Redkite Dare to Dream Scholarships and education grants for 15 to 24 years olds living with cancer or who are cancer survivors.
• Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training (ADCET) Scholarships for TAFE, undergraduate and postgraduate students with a disability.