To be eligible for an RMIT Equity Travel Grant you must:
- be an Australian or New Zealand citizen, an Australian permanent resident or a permanent humanitarian visa holder
- be able to demonstrate financial disadvantage such as:
- receiving a government tested low income benefit or having a Centrelink Health Care Card
- be able to demonstrate educational disadvantage such as:
- having a long-term medical condition or disability which impacts your study
- have previously/are currently living in foster/kinship care or are a ward of the state
- experiencing difficult family/social circumstances
- have/will be relocating from interstate or rural/regional Victoria to Melbourne to study at RMIT
- were born overseas, are from a non-English speaking background and recently migrated to Australia
- are a current or former refugee
- completed your secondary education at a School Network Access Program school
- be enrolled in a degree or postgraduate by coursework program at RMIT
- meet these overseas mobility activity requirements:
- not be commencing your overseas mobility activity prior to 1 July 2022 or in 2023
- you will need to be enrolled in an overseas mobility activity course* worth a minimum of 12 credit points via Enrolment Online** in the second half of 2022
- not be in receipt of any payment/salary/allowance or other grant/scholarship as part of your mobility activity
- you must have already applied and been approved for your overseas mobility activity prior to applying for this grant
- not have previously completed a program at the same level or higher e.g. if you are enrolled in a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), you should not have previously completed another bachelor degree.
*The course is required to be a 100 percent overseas mobility activity. For example, an overseas internship/placement that makes up 25 percent of the course requirement with the other 75 percent conducted in Australia is ineligible for an RMIT Equity Travel Grant.
**Overseas study where you will receive credit exemptions upon your return are ineligible. You must be enrolled in the mobility activity via Enrolment Online.