Details of available grants:

Macquarie University Merit Scholar Program

All domestic students with a University Admissions Index of 98.5 or above will be Macquarie Merit Scholars. As Macquarie Merit Scholars you will be given priority access to a range of opportunities, such as advanced programs, internships and international studies, specific to each program subject to your academic performance.

The University invites students to also apply to the Macquarie University Merit Scholarship. These highly competitive non-deferrable scholarships offer recipients an award of $12,000 p.a. The details of this scholarship are on our website.

Macquarie Education Costs Scholarship

This equity-based scholarship is designed to support recipients whose opportunities to study at university may have been hampered by situations out of their control. The amount of the scholarship is $4,324 p.a. up to four years.

Macquarie Accommodation Scholarship (MAS)

This scholarship is designed to support recipients whose living situation may have hampered their ability to study at Macquarie, and who would benefit from relocation primarily from a regional or rural area.

Please note: The relocation requirements for these awards are different than that for the Commonwealth Scholarships. Students who move from one urban area to another may be eligible for MAS. The amount of the scholarship is $8,648 p.a. for up to four years.

Macquarie Higher Study Scholarships

This program is designed to support recipients to continue their studies to an advanced coursework or Honours level. The amount is $8,648 p.a. for up to four years.

Macquarie Indigenous Top-Up Scholarship

This scholarship is to reward Indigenous students on commencement of their second and subsequent years of their study programs.

The University will offer these 'top-up' scholarships to each recipient of an Indigenous Access Scholarships (IAS), of increasing value for each year of a program commenced.

Amount:

• Year Two enrolment: $1,000
• Year Three enrolment: $2,000
• Year Four enrolment: $3,000

Application are made each semester for these scholarships through Universities Admissions Centre at www.uac.edu.au/equity

News:

Macquarie University has just entered into a new association with the Country Education Foundation of Australia (CEFA) to help rural students.

Under the arrangement, Macquarie will contribute up to $30,000 per year to assist country students wishing to attend the University. These funds will then be used to match grants given to rural students by local CEFA branches. Eligible students enrolling at Macquarie can use these financial scholarships to pay for goods or services directly related to achieving their tertiary education goal such as tuition, accommodation, travel, books or living expenses.

In 2007, Macquarie University announced major reforms of its scholarship program and admissions procedures that will give all students a fairer chance of attending Macquarie.

Vice-Chancellor Professor Schwartz said that at a time when a tertiary education in Australia was becoming more expensive, universities had an ethical responsibility to ensure the best and brightest students could access a first-class university education.

"Australian universities have tended to rely on a single entry mark - such as the Universities Admissions Index - to rank applicants, but these may not always be the best indicator of a person's aptitude to undertake tertiary level studies," he said. "They don't take into account the advantages that some students have had when it comes to easy access to facilities and after-school coaching, for example, or the challenges faced by other students who may have the necessary talent and aptitude for tertiary level study, but who may have experienced difficulties or disadvantage at a crucial time in their schooling, such as the death of a loved one or the divorce of their parents.

"By using a combination of application methods including an application letter, a UAI rank and an aptitude test, we hope to be able to select the students who really deserve to be at university."

To help ensure these students have the financial ability to study, Macquarie University is also revamping its scholarship scheme in 2008, and committing an extra $700,000 to it in the first year, Professor Schwartz added.

High-profile football club Sydney FC is linking up with Macquarie University in a unique relationship for an Australian professional sporting club and a university.

At the heart of the agreement is an arrangement whereby Sydney FC's Hyundai A-League players train at Macquarie University's excellent sporting facilities, including the recently opened $20m Sports and Aquatic Centre.

The club will also run their football camps and holiday clinics at the University, taking full advantage of the seven hectares of sporting fields, comprised of up to five football pitches.

Links:

• Home – www.mq.edu.au
• Scholarships Section – www.reg.mq.edu.au/undergrad/current/scholarship/index.htm

Campus locations

North Ryde