Graduate Access Melbourne
Excellence and equity are inseparable at Melbourne and bringing the best students to the University means minimising financial barriers and broadening access.
Graduate Access Melbourne provides access to applicants whose personal circumstances have had a sustained adverse effect on their academic achievement at undergraduate level or who are members of a specified group known to be under-represented in higher education.
Why apply for Graduate Access Melbourne?
- Increase your chances of securing a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP)
Applying through Graduate Access Melbourne will enhance your opportunity for selection to a CSP. Securing a CSP means that the cost of graduate study is heavily reduced.* - Increase your chances of getting in to the course of your choice
Entry into our professional entry programs can be competitive but University selection committees consider each eligible applicant individually. By applying through Graduate Access Melbourne the circumstances affecting your academic achievement will be taken into consideration. - Be considered for a one-off payment of $5,000
Eligible Graduate Access Melbourne applicants are automatically considered for a Graduate Access Melbourne Bursary or the Maisie Fawcett Scholarship. Both provide a one-off grant of $5000, to help you meet the costs associated with graduate study.
*NB: From 2009 - 2012 at least fifty percent of designated places in most professional entry programs will be offered as CSPs. At least twenty percent of the designated CSPs available in each graduate professional entry program will be allocated to Graduate Access Melbourne applicants.