Faculty of Arts

Travel and Fieldwork for Research Students

Research and Postgraduate Studies

Grants and Scholarships

Listed below are a number of grants and scholarships available to research students for the purpose of overseas and domestic travel for research, fieldwork and conferences.

Some of these are funded and administered through the Faculty of Arts, others by the Melbourne Scholarships Office.

Faculty of Arts*

*For a full list of the Faculty's grants and scholarships, please visit the Faculty's Scholarships, Prizes and Awards page.

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Postgraduate Exchange (Research Students)

Travel Overseas for Credit Towards Your University of Melbourne Degree!

The Melbourne Global Mobility Program provides support to students interested in studying overseas for credit towards their University of Melbourne degree. There are two main ways to study overseas as part of your Melbourne degree, as an Exchange student or as a Study Abroad student. On either program you may receive credit or fulfil degree requirements. Postgraduate students are ineligible to receive the Melbourne Abroad Scholarship and should instead investigate travel funding options through the Postgraduate Scholarships Office.

Postgraduate students need to read the RHD Guidelines on Postgraduate Exchange (see below).

Exchange students

Exchange students from the University of Melbourne take up a course place at an approved overseas institution and in return a student from that institution may study at the University of Melbourne. As an Exchange student you remain enrolled as a full-time student at the University of Melbourne and continue to pay your fees here in whatever form you have previously paid them. You are also enrolled as a full-time student at the host institution, but you are not required to pay any tuition fees at that institution. Exchange students must travel to a partner institution. For more details on Exchange, please visit the Melbourne Global Mobility Program page.

Study Abroad students

Study Abroad students enrol at institutions that do not have an exchange agreement with the University of Melbourne. As a Study Abroad student you must take a leave of absence from your degree at the University of Melbourne and enrol directly with, and pay any applicable tuition fees to, your chosen institution. Study Abroad students will be required to arrange their own overseas study program, but are welcome to use this web site and the Melbourne Global Mobility resource room for advice, and attend the Exchange pre-departure session, where possible. For more details on Global Mobility, please visit the Melbourne Global Mobility page.

NOTE: Postgraduate students are ineligible to receive the Melbourne Abroad Scholarship and should instead investigate travel funding options through the Postgraduate Scholarships Office.

Download the Research Higher Degree guidelines on Postgraduate Exchange (PDF).

Download the School of Graduate Research "Leave to Study Overseas/Away (PDF)" form (PhD candidates).

NOTE: All PhD applications for leave to study overseas/away must be accompanied by a completed Guideline Form For Off Campus Travel And Work Policy (PDF) and should be completed in conjunction with your supervisor who must authorise the form.

Download the Masters by Research "Leave to Study Overseas/Away" (PDF) form here.

NOTE: All Masters applications for leave to study overseas/away must be accompanied by a completed Guideline Form For Off Campus Travel And Work Policy which is available for download here (PDF) and should be completed in conjunction with your supervisor who must authorise the form.

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