Entrance Scholarships and Merit Scholarships for 2010

Monash University, Sunway campus (referred to as "the University" below) awards three types of scholarships to students, the Entrance Scholarships, Merit Scholarships and Honours Scholarships.

For Honours Scholarships, kindly contact the Research & Development managers of respective schools.

Entrance Scholarships

The value of each scholarship is a percentage reduction in the tuition fees only. An application form needs to be completed and submitted together with the relevant documents, before the scholarship is awarded.

Students who are eligible but who fail to apply for the scholarships will not be considered. The application closing date is 26th February 2010. Students who are waiting for their final pre-university results may also apply using forecast results by the closing date of 26th February 2010, however processing of applications will be based on the official final results.

Entrance Scholarship Form (Document File, 235Kb)

IMPORTANT: It is the student’s / applicant’s responsibility to ensure that the Entrance Scholarship application form is submitted directly to the Finance Department (Building 2, Level 1). Please DO NOT send the scholarship application through other departments. The university does not take responsibility for misplaced or lost scholarship application forms that do not reach the Finance Department. All appeals for late submission of forms will not be entertained.

Entrance scholarship recipients are eligible to continue to receive their scholarship throughout the duration of their studies in Monash University, Sunway Campus subject to excellent academic performance and will normally mean maintaining a distinction to high distinction average, depending on the scholarship percentage category that they hold and do not fail any unit. Details of maintaining the Entrance Scholarship are as follows:

Entrance scholarship recipients who are unable to achieve the required level of performance will be moved down to a lower percentage scholarship (e.g. 100% scholarship to 50% scholarship or 50% scholarship to 20% scholarship). Recipients who fail to maintain a distinction average would automatically have their scholarship withdrawn.

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Merit Scholarships

The value of each scholarship is a percentage reduction of the tuition fees only. An application form needs to be completed and submitted together with the results, before the scholarship is awarded.

Students who are eligible but who fail to apply for the scholarships will not be considered. The application closing date is 5th March 2010. Merit scholarship application forms MUST be submitted directly to the Finance Department (Building 2, Level 1). All appeals for late submission of forms will not be considered.

Merit Scholarship Form (Document File, 198Kb)

After each completed year of study (two continuous semesters), Merit Scholarship recipients are eligible to upgrade to a higher category if they meet the minimum achievement scores as shown in the table above.

Merit scholarship recipients are eligible to continue to receive a scholarship throughout the remaining duration of their studies in Monash University, Sunway Campus subject to excellent academic performance and will normally mean maintaining a distinction to high distinction average, depending on the scholarship percentage category that they hold and do not fail any unit. Details are as follows:

Conditions of Award of the Entrance and Merit Scholarships

1. Students must be currently enrolled as full-time students in Monash University, Sunway campus and have paid full tuition fees for the current semester of study.
   
   
2. The final decision to grant a scholarship is at the sole discretion of the University. Every semester the committee will review the scholars' performances and select the new recipients from the applicants. If necessary the committee will also make changes to the schemes/awards for the following semester.
   
   
3. Scholarship recipients are eligible to continue to receive a scholarship throughout the duration of their studies in Monash University, Sunway campus subject to excellent academic performance in each semester and do not fail any unit.
   
   
4. Scholarship recipients who fail to maintain the required level of performance would result in the full withdrawal of the Entrance scholarship. Student will be eligible to apply for the merit scholarship thereafter.
   
   
5. Scholarship recipients who fail any one unit in any semester examination will normally be fully withdrawn from the scholarship scheme.
   
   
6. The University will decide the manner of disbursement of the scholarships.
   
   
7. Students receiving scholarships/financial assistance from other bodies are not eligible for these scholarships.
   
   
8. These scholarships are only valid for studies at Monash University, Sunway campus.
   
   
9. The Entrance and Merit Scholarships are not applicable for students undertaking Honours year study.
   
   
10. The Entrance and Merit Scholarships do not cover study of units during the summer break.
    
    
11. The Entrance and Merit Scholarship scheme is only for the following degree programs (MBBS and Pharmacy programs excluded) :
    
    
    • Bachelor of Arts (Psychology/ Communication/ Writing/ International Studies/ Global)
    • Bachelor of Business and Commerce
    • Bachelor of Communication
    • Bachelor of Business and Commerce / Bachelor of Communication
    • Bachelor of Psychology and Business
    • Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems
    • Bachelor of Computer Science
    • Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical & Computer Systems/ Mechanical/ Mechatronics Engineering/ Chemical)
    • Bachelor of Science (Biotechnology/ Medical Bioscience/Environmental Management/Food Science and Technology)