Vice-Chancellor's International High Achievers Scholarships (VCIHAS)

Eligibility

• Applicant must apply to commence study in 2020
• Applicants must meet the University's academic and English language entry requirement for their chosen course;
• Applicant must have a minimum overall score of 85% in their highest completed qualification
• Applicant must be an international student on a student visa;
• Applicant must not hold another scholarship from an Australian or foreign sponsoring agency

Ongoing Eligibility

In order to retain the scholarship, the recipient must meet all the following:

• Continue to be an international student liable for international student fees;
• Pay their portion of the tuition fees on or before the payment due date (first day of teaching) of each semester;
• Maintain satisfactory academic progress each semester with a minimum GPA of 5.3 and with no fail grade in any unit;
• Maintain a full-time enrolment of 40 credit points (0.5 EFTSL) each semester or have approval to reduce their study load or take a leave of absence for the semester;

About Company

Charles Darwin University (CDU) is based in the capital city of Darwin at the heart of Australia's tropical north and is Australia's closest university to Asia. CDU has all the advantages of a relatively young multi-sector university, including vigour, creativity, flexibility and freedom from the constraints of tradition. But its true character and richness stems from its location in the Northern Territory of Australia, centred in Darwin: a youthful, multicultural, cosmopolitan, and robust, tropical city in a Territory that is steeped in Aboriginal tradition and culture and which enjoys a close interaction with the peoples of Southeast Asia.

Charles Darwin University is unique. No other single Australian university serves such a large area of the continent, in such a remote location and with such a small population to sustain it. While the Northern Territory covers around 16 percent of Australia, in 2015 it was home to just over 1 percent of the population, 30 percent of whom were Indigenous compared with around 3 percent of the general Australian population.

The only university based in the Northern Territory, CDU is a dual sector university. We are the most northerly Australian university, literally on Asia’s doorstep. Closer in many respects to the vast populations of Asia than to the southern Australian states. Ours is a university deeply engaged with, and informed by, Australia’s Indigenous people. Recognising that we operate on the lands of many strong Indigenous nations, respecting the knowledge and culture of Aboriginal people and committed to Indigenous advancement.