Deadline: 30 April 2025
The Australia’s international development assistance in Myanmar helps promote prosperity, reduce poverty, and enhance political stability.
Priority Areas
- The priority areas of study for Myanmar for commencement in 2026 are:
- Education (e.g. education policy, quality assurance and statistics, student learning assessment, education economics, technical and vocational education, and training (TVET) and curriculum studies)
- Public Health (e.g. epidemiology, public health, health security, health economics, disease control and biosecurity)
- Human Rights and Democratic Governance (e.g. rule of law, political science and transnational crime, countering trafficking, peace, and security)
- Gender Equality, Social Inclusion and Development (e.g. gender, disability, intersectionality, development, international human rights law, peace/conflict, humanitarian leadership, anthropology, and research)
- Environment and Natural Resources (e.g. natural resource management, water resources, climate change, disaster risk management, environment, conservation, food security and livelihoods support)
- Economic Development (e.g. economics, financial analysis, international business, trade policy, public policy, tax, energy engineering)
Benefits
- Scholarship recipients will receive the following:
- Return air travel
- A one-off establishment allowance on arrival
- Full tuition fees
- Contribution to living expenses
- Introductory academic program
- Overseas student health cover for the duration of the scholarship
- Supplementary academic support
- Fieldwork allowance for research students and masters by coursework which has a compulsory fieldwork component
Eligibility Criteria
- Be a Myanmar citizen residing in Myanmar at the time of application
- Have completed a Bachelor’s degree
- Have at least four years of work experience. This may include internships, volunteering, part-time or full-time work
- Applicants are required to declare all previous study/and or any current, incomplete study. Declarations must include all study regardless of whether it was undertaken in Myanmar or another country. Please note that preference may be given to applicants who do not already have a Master’s degree
- Don’t already have Master’s degree in the same field the applicant is applying for
- A valid passport or the ability to apply for, and receive, a passport should the applicant receive a scholarship offer
- Satisfy all requirements of the Australian Department of Home Affairs to hold a Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) supported student visa. More information can be found on the Department of Home Affairs website: Subclass 500 Student visa
- Be able to legally depart to study in Australia and return to Myanmar upon completion of study.
- Applicants are required to provide all mandatory documents listed in the supporting documents. Where instructed, applicants must use the templates provided by Australia Awards Myanmar otherwise the application will be deemed ineligible.
- Applicants require a valid passport to apply for a visa and to depart Myanmar. Applicants must assess their own situation and consider whether they are confident they could safely and legally depart and return to Myanmar. All offers are conditional pending the granting of a visa through the Australian Government Department of Home Affairs. Visa processing timeframes can range from weeks to months. Given the amount of time required to obtain a Myanmar passport, applicants may want to think about having a current valid passport ready to be able to apply for a student visa as soon as they are awarded a scholarship, if successful.
- Applicants are encouraged to demonstrate how their chosen course of study builds on their work experience, and how their study will be applied on return to Myanmar. Any application which shows evidence of plagiarism (copying from other applicants) will be deemed ineligible. This constitutes fraud which is contrary to Australian values and will not be tolerated.
For more information, visit DFAT.
