QUT Elite Sport Scholarship

Application dates

Applications open

28 July 2024

Applications close

13 January 2025

What you'll receive

You'll receive a scholarship valued at up to $10,000, paid over two years.

QUT Sport Scholarships have additional benefits, including:

• automatic membership to QUT's College of Excellence and Elite Athlete Program
• access to personal and professional development opportunities
• access to nutrition and sports psychology services and more.

Eligibility

How to apply

You'll need to verify selection, results and achievement in your sporting CV. You must provide:

• a cover letter telling us about your background, reasons for application and future sporting goals
• an overview of events competed at in reverse chronological order (e.g. 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, etc.) including placing and results
• copies of your team selection letters (on official letterhead)
• references from your state or national sporting organisation.

Athletes who have not represented at state or national level should provide two references from relevant persons who can verify their current level of performance.

Complete the online application and attach all relevant support documentation. Late documentation will not be considered.

If you have any questions, contact us at eliteathletes@qut.edu.au

Complete the application form

To be considered for this scholarship, you will need to submit your application by the close date.

Apply for a 2025 QUT Sport Scholarship

By submitting this application, you will be considered for all QUT Sport Scholarship offerings unless otherwise indicated in your application form.

What happens next?

We'll make scholarship offers from February 2025.

Due to the large volume of applications received, we'll only notify students who are successful in being offered a scholarship. We won't consider appeals for unsuccessful applications. All decisions are final and based on the original application submitted.

Conditions

To keep your QUT Elite Sport Scholarship, you must:

• maintain a grade point average (GPA) of 4.0 or higher in each semester
• remain actively engaged in your sports
• represent QUT at a minimum of two targeted events or appearances each year, which may include:
  • speaking at QUT Sport events
  • contesting the National University Championships (if your sport is contested)
  • participating in other campus events.

You can:

• take approved leave of absence from your course in accordance with the QUT Leave of Absence policy. Scholarship payments will be suspended during periods of leave
• concurrently receive a QUT Equity Scholarship, if eligible.

You can't:

• defer your scholarship offer. If you defer your course, you will need to reapply for the QUT Elite Sport Scholarship the following year
• hold another merit scholarship concurrently with this scholarship. If you have any questions about holding other scholarships, contact us at scholarships@qut.edu.au

Terms and conditions for QUT Elite Sport Scholarship (PDF file; 144.9 KB)

About the scholarship

We are proud to support elite athletes across a wide range of sports by offering sport scholarships annually for both new and existing students.

Sport scholarships are spread over a number of categories to support athletes at all levels of performance. This includes talented sports people who are still developing and progressing in their chosen sport all the way through to high-performance level athletes representing Australia at national and international levels.