Scholarships overview
The MIT Australian Foundation is committed to ensuring financial barriers do not hinder access to education. The foundation offers two tailored scholarships to domestic students studying at Melbourne Institute of Technology:
- Merit Scholarships: Awarded for outstanding academic achievement, leadership, and community engagement.
- Equity Scholarships:Designed to support students facing financial hardship, regional/remote challenges, Indigenous Australian status, disability, or other educational disadvantages.
These scholarships empower domestic students at Melbourne Institute of Technology (MIT) to achieve their academic and career goals through financial assistance, recognition, and ongoing support.
Scholarship programs
Merit Scholarships
MIT Foundation's Merit scholarship is awarded to a student to support their studies by providing financial and/or other relevant support based on merit. Criteria for these scholarships may include academic and/or other merit criteria.
Eligibility:
- academic merit, assessed on performance in current or prior studies; and/or
- leadership; and/or
- performance in community engagement activities; and/or
- demonstration of professional competence in professional experience.
Selection criteria
- complete application must be lodged by 4.30 pm on the Friday of the week immediately before the classes start in the subsequent trimester. Application that are incomplete will not be considered.
- applicant must be enrolled as a full-time student in the trimester to which the benefit would apply.
- applicant must have achieved an overall percentage of 75.0% or more, with no individual result below 70.0% in the preceding trimester and have no fail grades recorded (no exceptions will be considered).
- applicant must have completed at least (a minimum) of two trimesters full-time as per course requirements of the program at MIT.
- applicant must have maintained a minimum attendance record of 80% in all scheduled classes.
- application must be accompanied by a 500-800 words essay outlining why receipt of the scholarship is important.
- applicant must have made the fee payment for the subsequent trimester’s full-time enrolment.
- applicant must not be sponsored by other organisations or government departments.
- applicant must have maintained enrolment in the course in which they commenced.
Retention criteria
- Current students receiving merit scholarships will retain their scholarship if they continue to meet the eligibility criteria i.e. maintain grades each semester and are enrolled in a fulltime study load in the next semester. Scholarship students will not be ranked each semester.
Equity Scholarships
MIT Foundation's Equity scholarship is awarded to a student to assist their studies by providing financial and/or other relevant support based on demonstrated financial need or other educational disadvantage and may include additional eligibility criteria.
Eligibility:
- Financial hardship evidence;
- regional and remote place of residence;
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander student status; and/or membership of any other designated equity group;
- other as determined by the Scholarship Committee.
Selection criteria
- complete application for equity scholarships must be lodged before enrolment starts in the preceding two weeks of the trimester commencing.
- Full-time enrolment at MIT
- Minimum 18 years of age
- Meet academic admission requirements
- Statements of Support from responsible persons such as Community Elders, Registered Medical Practitioners Social Workers, Counsellors, High School Principals
Retention criteria
- Current students receiving equity scholarships will retain their scholarship if they maintain a minimum grade of PASS in at least two thirds of the credit points in which they were enrolled in the previous study period.
How to apply
1. Prepare documents
- Academic transcripts
- Proof of identity/residency
- Supporting evidence (Centrelink/medical)
2. Submit application
Deadlines:
Equity Scholarships: 2 weeks prior to enrolment
3. Application review
Scholarship Committee reviews all complete applications
Key requirements
- Australian/NZ citizen or permanent resident
- Full-time enrolment at MIT
- Minimum 18 years of age
- Meet academic admission requirements
- Plus the eligibility criteria as prescribed by each scholarship type.
- Completed application form
- 500-800 word impact statement
- Proof of financial circumstances
- Academic transcripts
- Proof of identity
- Proof of residency and school attended (for regional/rural applicants)
- Statement of disadvantage or hardship
- Academic transcripts
- Personal statement on overcoming adversity, extracurricular participation, volunteering, Statement of Support
Contact
Scholarship Committee
domesticscholarships@mit.edu.au
Application deadlines
Next Intake: 17th March 2025
Following Intake: 14th July 2025
Documents
2. MIT Australian Foundation's Equity Scholarship Application Form
(pdf, 434 kb)
3. MIT Australian Foundation's Merit Scholarship Application Form
(pdf, 274 kb)