Indigenous Commonwealth Accommodation Scholarship

The Indigenous Commonwealth Accommodation Scholarship (ICAS) aims to improve higher education access for Indigenous people, particularly those who need to relocate from regional and remote areas, through payments to assist with accommodation costs.

Any undergraduate degree at Swinburne.

Applicants must:

• be an Indigenous Australian or Torres Strait Islander
• be enrolled in a full-time undergraduate degree at Swinburne in 2018.
• demonstrate low socio-economic status or financial disadvantage
• have lived or studied in a regional or remote area of Australia within the four years immediately preceding the commencement of the current course of study.*

* Refer to Rural and Regional Calculator to determine your geographic classification.

Please note:

•  If you are in receipt of a Centrelink Student Start Up Scholarship, Student Start up loan, Relocation Scholarship, ABSTUDY Residential Costs Options or Commonwealth Accommodation Scholarships and you are offered an ICECS/ICAS, you may choose to either accept or decline the offer. If you do accept the offer, you must contact Centrelink for information about how to return the Centrelink Student Start Up Scholarship, Relocation Scholarship or Student Start up loan payment.

$5,276 per year (indicative) paid in two instalments in the year. This scholarship is available for up to eight payment cycles.

Applications are now closed and will re-open again in August 2017.

Scholarships & Prizes, Student Administration
scholarship@swin.edu.au