Leadership Scholarship

To be eligible for this scholarship, you must: 

• Be an Australian or New Zealand citizen, or an Australian permanent resident currently completing Year 12 (or equivalent) inside or outside of Australia OR An Australian or an Australian permanent resident completing high school outside Australia OR International students completing Year 12 (or equivalent) in Australia.
• Achieve a minimum of ATAR 84.00 or IB Diploma 30.
• Hold outstanding leadership, community and extra-curricular achievements, both at school and within the community.  You will be asked to provide evidence of all achievements as supporting documents in your scholarship application.
• Meet the standard entry requirements for your chosen program of study. 

If you meet the eligibility criteria for this scholarship, we encourage you to apply by following the below steps:

1. Complete the Bond University Study Application Form to lodge your application for your chosen program. Learn more about this process.
2. Complete the Bond University Scholarship Application Form. Simply use the same log-in details as used for your study application and enter 'scholarship' in the keyword field on the Start an Application tab.  

You must complete and submit your scholarship application before the application closing date as no late scholarship applications will be considered! 

Yes! As Leadership Scholarship applicant, you will be required to submit the following documents as part of your scholarship application:

• Evidence of your leadership, initiative, and service to your school and/or community. It is a COMPULSARY component of your application to use our Summary of Achievements template to present this evidence. You will need to complete all sections of the template provided and upload it as one Word or PDF document, to your scholarship application. 
  Your application CANNOT be considered if you provide your evidence in any other form, such as a personal CV or resume. 
• Completion of the Bond University Leadership Scholarship Supporting Document . This should be uploaded as a supporting document to the scholarship application form and all leadership achievements/experience must be supported through evidence (e.g. references, certificates, photos).
• Academic responses to the following two questions:
  1. Describe a situation where you were unsuccessful and what you learned from it. Write a 250-word academic response in paragraph form.
  2. Working in teams is a valuable social and professional activity. Thinking about a successful team experience you were involved with, reflect on and discuss what made your team successful. Write a 250-word academic response in paragraph form.
  Your responses should be entered into your scholarship application where prompted. We suggest drafting your responses in a Word document first and then copying and pasting them into the relevant fields in your application. 
• A school reference. As part of your application, you will be asked to provide your career advisor's details, so please have these on hand. We will follow-up with them directly to request a reference. 

Yes! We encourage you to apply for as many scholarships as you are eligible for. This should all be done in the one scholarship application form. You will only be considered for the scholarships you have applied for so ensure you have included them all in your application before you submit it!

If you are applying for more than one scholarship with different application closing dates, it is important to submit your scholarship application form by the earliest scholarship closing date. 

Applications closed at 11:59pm AEST on Thursday, 29 August, 2024.

Please note, if you are applying for scholarships with different closing dates, you must submit your full scholarship application by the earliest closing date.