Eligibility Criteria for a Scholarship Application

You are only eligible for an Australian Development Scholarship (ADS) if:

you are a citizen of one of the recipient countries, if you are presently resident in your home country and if you meet any relevant country specific criteria set out below;
you are not older that 45 years of age at the time of the commencement of the award;
you satisfy Australian Government requirements for international student entry to Australia (such as health and character required by the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs);
you do not hold another scholarship that would give overlapping benefits;
you satisfy the admission requirements of the Australian institution in which the course is to be undertaken - applicants must have submitted their completed application form via the ADS office and then have received a firm offer of placement in their course of study before the scholarship can be confirmed;
you are applying to commence a new course of study and not be seeking support through ADS for a course already commenced in Australia;
you are not transferring from another Australian training scholarship to an ADS during the same course of study, and
you will be able to take up the scholarship in the calendar year for which the scholarship is offered. Scholarship offers are automatically withdrawn if an applicant has not commenced study prior to the end of the year.