Access Scholarship for Students who are Care Leavers from Aus State or Foster Care 2025 - VTAC

All Access Scholarships are partly funded by the Federal Department of Education’s Higher Education Participation Programme (HEPPP). HEPPP aims to ensure that Australians from low SES backgrounds who have the ability to study at university get the opportunity to do so.

Students offered this scholarship may undertake any undergraduate degree course at Swinburne.

Apply via VTAC

Applicants should complete the VTAC Scholarship Application Form which is available through their VTAC user account.

All applicants who receive a course offer from Swinburne and have completed the VTAC Scholarship Application Form will automatically be assessed for this scholarship and notified in March 2025.

To be considered, students must preference and be offered any Swinburne higher education course.

Refer to the VTAC webpage for application dates.

Any undergraduate course offered by Swinburne University of Technology.

To be eligible for the Access Scholarship for Students who are Care Leavers from Australian State or Foster Care, applicants must:

1. Meet the following criteria:
   • Australian citizen, Australian permanent resident or holder of a permanent humanitarian visa
2. Meet the following enrolment criteria:
   • be a commencing Swinburne student in Semester 1, 2025
   • enrolled full-time in an eligible course (see courses eligible in section above)
3. Be care leavers from Australian State or Foster Care
    
4. Provide evidence of financial hardship and low-socio economic status

Please note: Previous recipients of any type of Swinburne University ACCESS (Equity) Scholarship are not eligible to apply for any other Swinburne University ACCESS (Equity) Scholarship.

This scholarship is valued at 

• $500 one-off payment before the commencement of studies
• $5,000 over three years

Applications are closed and will re-open with the 2024-2025 VTAC round.

See the VTAC scholarships page for more information and advice.

Fees and Scholarships Team, Student Administration and Library Services
scholarship@swin.edu.au