These scholarships are awarded automatically following the release of ATAR results in December, although you must be enrolling as a local student and have a University of Technology Sydney course preference on your UAC application to be eligible.
The application form is optional.
By completing this application, you will be considered for all UTS Elite School Leaver scholarships, as listed here (subject to meeting the eligibility criteria):
- Vice-Chancellor's Outstanding Achievement Scholarship
- Vice-Chancellor's Merit Scholarship
- Business Dean's Scholarship
- Engineering and Information Technology Dean's Scholarship
- Health Dean's Scholarship
- Law Dean's Scholarship
- Science Dean's Scholarship
- Science Dean's Scholarship for Women
- Science High Achiever's Scholarship
Eligibility
To be eligible, all applicants must meet each of the following eligibility criteria:
- Be a current school leaver; or gap year student who received an Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank (ATAR) or equivalent score in the previous year, where no university study was undertaken in the gap year; and
- Be an Australian or New Zealand citizen, or the holder of an Australian permanent resident visa or permanent humanitarian visa; and
- Have a UTS undergraduate course among your UAC preferences for the upcoming academic year. Listing UTS as a first or second preference will be highly regarded.
In addition, some scholarships have criteria specific to them. Please refer to the scholarship links below for detailed information on each scholarship's specific eligibility and selection criteria:
Before starting your application
All applicants
Step 1:
Complete your UAC application for admission to a UTS undergraduate degree. Please make sure you have your UAC application number with you.
Step 2:
Prepare two written statements (maximum of 300 words each) in a text document addressing the following. Do not use any special formatting in your statements (i.e. no bullet points, numbering etc) in relation to:
- Your Motivation to Succeed: Describe your motivation to succeed in your chosen undergraduate course. Discuss where your sense of motivation comes from and where you would like it to take you in your career and personal life.
- Your Initiative: Discuss how you have demonstrated and/or used your initiative either in your professional and personal life? For example, you may want to discuss your involvement in sporting and/or cultural activities and any positions of leadership that you have held.
For the Vice-Chancellor's Merit Scholarship Only:
Step 1: Complete your UAC Equity Scholarship application, and have your ES application number at hand.
In order to be eligible for the Vice-Chancellor's Merit Scholarship, applicants must complete either a UAC Equity Scholarship or a UAC Educational Access Scheme application and, therein, have demonstrated financial disadvantage and other educational barriers. It is recommended that applicants submit their Equity Scholarship application in advance of the Elite School Leaver Scholarship Application deadline to allow time for UAC to process their application by the UTS closing date.
Closing date
Applications close on 11:59pm on Monday, 8 December 2025.
Please note that applications are not compulsory. Successful applicants will be contacted by phone.
Need help?
If you need help with your application, have a question, or would like to make a change to your application after you have submitted it, contact the:
UTS Scholarships
Email: scholarships@uts.edu.au
