Deakin alumni postgraduate bursary

To be eligible you must be:

• a Deakin alumnus, or an immediate family member of a Deakin alumnus and
• a commencing student* in a postgraduate award course and
• enrolled in a full-fee paying place

* Please refer to Exclusions below.

Glossary of terms

We’ve provided the following definitions of the eligibility criteria for this bursary:

• Deakin alumni: a student who has completed an award course at Deakin University.
• 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.
• Immediate family member:  includes a parent, sibling (including half-siblings), child (including formally adopted children), spouse, step parent or step child. Immediate family member does not include aunts, uncles, cousins, sibling in-law, nieces or nephews.
• Award course includes:
  • bachelor degrees
  • honours bachelor degrees
  • graduate certificates
  • graduate diplomas
  • master degrees
  • higher degrees by research

* Please refer to Exclusions below.

The Deakin alumni postgraduate bursary:

• is not available to current Deakin University staff unless the staff member is also a Deakin graduate or an immediate family member of a Deakin alumnus.
• cannot be held concurrently with any other scholarship, bursary or discount offered by Deakin University. (If you are offered any other scholarship, bursary or discount you need to choose which one you wish to hold).
• will not apply to postgraduate studies undertaken in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
• will not apply to students who hold a Deakin Diploma as their highest achieved study level at Deakin University.
• will not apply retrospectively should your eligibility change during your studies.
• will not apply if you have not completed prior studies before commencing a new postgraduate course.  Studies in your commencing postgraduate degree must be in later study periods and cannot be undertaken concurrently with your first degree at Deakin.
• will not apply to further studies undertaken within the same study stream/related area eg. graduate certificate to masters.

If eligibility is maintained, the bursary will apply for the normal duration of your course. The Deakin alumni postgraduate bursary is applied directly to your tuition fee invoice.  You can see if the bursary has been applied by viewing your tuition fee invoice, in StudentConnect, each study period.

The Deakin alumni postgraduate bursary also applies to Credential units when taken as a part of your postgraduate award course.

The Deakin alumni postgraduate bursary is not transferable. If you transfer to another postgraduate course of study, the bursary will be withdrawn and will not be available for your new course of study.

The Deakin alumni postgraduate bursary 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 or in your statutory declaration (if applicable)
• 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 will only be able to 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 postgraduate bursary will automatically be withdrawn.