Deadline: 30 April 2025
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is thrilled to announce its Australia Awards scholarships in Mongolia to helps promote prosperity, reduce poverty, and enhance political stability.
Priority Areas
- Australia Awards scholarships in Mongolia accept applications from a wide range of fields. However, the key priority areas for eligible are:
- Agriculture, Environment and Related Studies
- Architecture and Building
- Creative Arts
- Education
- Engineering and Related Technologies
- Food, Hospitality and Personal Services
- Health
- Information Technology
- Management and Commerce
- Mixed Field Programmes
- Natural and Physical Sciences
- Society and Culture
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 master by coursework which has a compulsory fieldwork component
Level of Study
- Australia Awards scholarships provide citizens of Mongolia with the opportunity to obtain a qualification at an Australian tertiary institution.
- Awards will be offered for commencement in 2026 within the following allocations:
- Category 1: public sector receives 50% of scholarships
- Category 2: private sector, including civil society and international organisations, receives 50% of scholarships
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants require a full-time Bachelor’s degree from a university with a GPA of no less than 3.0. If a GPA score is not explicitly stated in the graduation diploma, applicants must obtain relevant GPA certification from their respective universities.
- When applying, applicants must have achieved an IELTS (Academic) score of 6.0 (with no individual band score of less than 5.5) or an equivalent iBT-TOEFL score. Scores must be valid on 1 January 2026. iBT-TOEFL Home Edition and Institutional TOEFL scores are not accepted. If selected, provisional awardees will be offered up to four months of English language training in Mongolia. Provisional awardees who do not achieve IELTS 6.5 by the end of the English language training will forfeit their scholarship.
- Applicants (apart from those with an identified and verified disability) must demonstrate at least two years’ continuous employment in Mongolia up to 1 February 2025 (maternity leave excepted). Category 1 applicants are required to have worked in the public sector for two years prior to 1 February 2025.
- Applicants with identified and verified disability do not need to demonstrate two years of continuous employment. Applicants should be aware that Australian and Mongolian classifications of what constitutes a disability are different, and existing medical/health conditions will not be accepted as a disability.
- Applicants two-years’ continuous work requirement should be counted from the date of graduation of full-time Bachelor’s or Master’s course and backed up by certified Social Insurance monthly payments. Voluntary Social Insurance payments will not be accepted as verification of employment duration.
- Applicants who have obtained a Master’s qualification funded from Mongolian-bilateral government scholarship schemes cannot apply for an Australia Award Scholarship.
- Applicants who have accepted a Master’s qualification funded by Mongolian-bilateral government scholarship schemes during the interview round will no longer be eligible to be considered for an Australia Award scholarship.
For more information, visit DFAT.
