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Deakin alumni discount
Continue your Deakin study journey
As a Deakin alumnus, you may be eligible to receive a 10% tuition fee discount on eligible postgraduate coursework degrees. Whether you’re ready to step into leadership, build specialist skills or take your career in a new direction, Deakin can help you keep moving forward.
Invest in your future with postgraduate study
Further study can help you develop specialist expertise, advance your career or pursue new opportunities. The Deakin alumni discount provides eligible alumni with a reduction in tuition fees across selected postgraduate coursework degrees.
Value
- 10% reduction per unit on your enrolment fees on your eligible postgraduate award course at Deakin University.
- This discount is applied to your tuition fees once eligibility has been confirmed.
- The Deakin alumni discount is not redeemable for cash.
Duration
- The normal duration of your course if eligibility is maintained.
Why return to study at Deakin?
Your career, interests and goals continue to evolve. Postgraduate study can help you build specialist knowledge, develop leadership capabilities or explore a new professional direction. As a Deakin alumnus, you already know the value of flexible, career-focused learning. The alumni discount makes it easier to take the next step with a postgraduate qualification.
Am I eligible for the Deakin alumni discount?
The Deakin alumni discount is available to Deakin alumni commencing a postgraduate award course in a full-fee paying place.
To be eligible you must be:
- a Deakin alumnus, having completed an award course at Deakin, prior to commencing your postgraduate studies and
- a commencing student in a postgraduate award course (exclusions apply*) and
- enrolled in a full-fee paying place.
Glossary of terms
We’ve provided the following definitions of the eligibility criteria for this discount:
- Deakin alumni: a student who has completed an award course at Deakin University. An award course includes bachelor degrees, honours bachelor degrees, graduate certificates, graduate diplomas and master degrees.
- Commencing student: a student is considered commencing if they are enrolled in the first study period of their award course and not previously been enrolled after the census date.
- Postgraduate award courses include graduate certificates, graduate diplomas and masters by coursework.
How to apply
If you're a Deakin alumni there's no application process. Your eligibility to receive the Deakin alumni discount will be assessed at the time you are made an offer. If eligible, the discount will be applied directly to your tuition fees.
If you're an alumnus of an antecedent institute please contact us to confirm your eligibility.
Stay connected in the Deakin alumni community
As a Deakin alumnus, you're part of a global community that continues to support your personal and professional growth. Stay connected through networking opportunities, career resources, events and alumni benefits, while building relationships with fellow graduates across Australia and around the world.
Frequently asked questions
The alumni discount is available to eligible Deakin alumni enrolling in approved postgraduate coursework programs. See full information in the ‘Am I eligible for the Deakin alumni discount?’ section above.
Eligible students receive a 10% tuition fee discount on selected postgraduate coursework courses.
No. The discount is available regardless of how long ago you completed your Deakin qualification.
The discount applies to eligible graduate certificate, graduate diploma and masters coursework courses. Explore Deakin’s postgraduate courses.
No. The alumni discount cannot be held concurrently with any other scholarship, bursary or discount.
Yes. The discount applies for the full duration of an eligible postgraduate coursework degree.
Yes. The alumni discount is available to eligible domestic and international Deakin alumni.
The Deakin alumni discount is not available for:
- students whose highest qualification awarded by Deakin University is an undergraduate diploma
- students who have not completed their previous Deakin qualification before commencing a new postgraduate course
- courses undertaken in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP)
- graduate research degrees, including master's by research
- courses delivered by, or in partnership with, a third party, or where any fees are invoiced by, or paid to, a third party.
Withdrawal of this discount
The Deakin alumni discount will be withdrawn from all study periods and you will be required to immediately pay any outstanding amount if:
- you have been found to have supplied incorrect or misleading information during the admission and enrolment process
- you have been found to have breached the University’s student code of conduct.
Other scholarship offers
If you are offered another Deakin scholarship, bursary or fee discount relating to your postgraduate award course, you can only hold one. You will be asked to nominate which scholarship, bursary or fee discount arrangement you would like to hold. If you do not make a nomination, the Deakin alumni discount will automatically be withdrawn.
