Apply for a placement scholarship or grant
If mandatory placement is part of your course, you might be eligible to apply for financial support.
Financial support for students doing placement
Some of our scholarships and grants are specifically aimed at students doing placement – particularly those who need to travel a long way from home. Find out if there’s something can apply for.
Scholarships and grants
This grant – worth up to $1000 – is designed to help placement students facing a high level of financial or personal hardship.
Eligibility
You must:
- be a domestic undergraduate student
- be currently active and enrolled in a course at Federation University
- have a confirmed placement in InPlace
- be able to show evidence of successful placement completion
- be able to show evidence of financial hardship or disadvantage (not only during time of placement)
- not be receiving placement funding from another source (such as Going Rural, Co-op paid placements, Commonwealth Prac Payment)
- apply before or during your placement period with your student email address.
This grant – worth up to $1200 – is designed to help students facing a high level of financial or personal hardship.
Eligibility
You must:
- be currently active and enrolled in a course at Federation University
- be able to show evidence of financial hardship or disadvantage
- apply with your student email address.
This scholarship – worth up to $2000 – is awarded to students from low socio-economic backgrounds who need to relocate for placement.
Eligibility
You must be:
- experiencing financial hardship
- currently enrolled as a full-time or part-time student
- in at least second year (if enrolled in an undergraduate degree)
- able to provide a report on your placement experience within one month of it ending
- willing to participate in evaluation studies or surveys.
Your placement must:
- be full time (minimum of 30 hours per week)
- at least three weeks / 12 days long
- be at least 100 kilometres from where you live
- necessitate relocation
- be classified as regional, remote or very remote (RA3-RA5 according to the Remoteness Area Locator) OR is in a major Australian city (RA1) if you live in a regional, remote or very remote area.
This scholarship – worth up to $2000 – is awarded to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander students who need to relocate for placement.
Eligibility
You must be:
- Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
- currently enrolled as a full-time or part-time student
- in at least second year (if enrolled in an undergraduate degree)
- able to provide a report on your placement experience within one month of it ending
- willing to participate in evaluation studies or surveys.
Your placement must:
- be full time (minimum of 30 hours per week)
- at least three weeks/12 days long
- be at least 100 kilometres from where you live
- necessitate relocation
- be classified as regional, remote or very remote (RA3-RA5 according to the Remoteness Area Locator) OR is in a major Australian city (RA1) if you live in a regional, remote or very remote area.
If you’re doing placement in the Hume, Ovens, Murray, Goulburn, Ballarat or Grampians regions, you could receive up to $2500 to help with your accommodation and travel costs.
Eligibility
You must:
- be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or permanent resident of Australia
- be enrolled in a nationally recognised nursing, allied health or other health science undergraduate or postgraduate degree
- show evidence of a confirmed placement
- apply before, during, or up to one month after the end of the placement.
Your placement must be:
- in one of the specified regional areas
- at least two weeks full time (four or more days per week).
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