RMIT Indigenous Accommodation Scholarship

The RMIT Indigenous Accommodation Scholarship is provided for the duration of your program at either $5,200 per year (if you demonstrate financial disadvantage in your scholarship application) or $2,600 per year (if you do not demonstrate financial disadvantage in your scholarship application).

This scholarship provides funds to assist in financing rental/shared accommodation in Melbourne.

To be eligible for this scholarship, you must:

• be an Australian citizen
• be an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
• register with RMIT’s Ngarara Willim Centre and provide documentation confirming that you are an Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander by the scholarship application due date
• be relocating from interstate rural/regional Victoria to study at RMIT in semester 2 2022 for the first time
• be commencing full-time study in the standard semester 2 2022 in a certificate IV, diploma, degree or postgraduate by coursework program at RMIT
• have not previously commenced or completed a program at the same level of study or higher

In addition to the above:

• to be considered for the full value of the scholarship per annum, you must demonstrate financial disadvantage in your scholarship application such as showing documentation that you receive a government tested low income benefit or have a Centrelink Health Care Card
• you must not be enrolling in an apprenticeship or traineeship program

Direct to RMIT applications

Complete the online application by the application close date.  In order to be considered for this scholarship, you must submit a complete online application. Partial applications will not be assessed.

Find out more about applying for scholarships.

Supporting documentation

Before you begin your application, please visit Supporting documentation for more information about supporting your application with evidence and answering application questions. This also website also provides what are suitable forms of evidence for demonstrating financial disadvantage.

If you are applying as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person you are required to establish eligibility for this scholarship by providing supporting documentation confirming that you are an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. Submit your documentation direct to RMIT’s Ngarara Willim Centre Centre via ngarara@rmit.edu.au by the application close date. Information on suitable forms of confirmation documentation can be found on Ngarara Willim’s eligibility webpage.

If you cannot provide the required confirmation documentation by the due date, please review the RMIT Accommodation Scholarship whose eligibility is based on financial and educational circumstances.  

Applications for semester 2 2022 now open.

Applications for semester 2 2022 will close at 11.59pm on Monday 13 June 2022.

View the Coursework Scholarships Office’s terms and conditions.

This scholarship is paid as a stipend (in fortnightly payments) and not as a lump sum.

For assistance in finding accommodation in Melbourne, visit our accommodation section which advertises various types of rental/shared vacancies.

Moving to Melbourne

Coursework Scholarships Office or the Ngarara Willim Centre.