Ten New Scholarships for PhD Candidates

The awards will be given under the new Victoria India Doctoral Scholarships Programme launched recently by the State Government of Victoria and the Australia
India Institute.

The new scholarships programme is one of a number of strategic engagement opportunities created by the Victorian Government to strengthen its relations with India.
Victoria's nine universities have all agreed to provide a full tuition waiver.  The ten new scholarships, providing A$90,000 over the duration of doctoral studies for each PhD scholar, will support living costs and education-related travel.

Australian High Commissioner Peter Varghese AO and Amitabh Mattoo, director of the Australia India Institute, Melbourne, launched the scholarships at Australia's high commission in New Delhi, together with Victoria's commissioner to India, Geoffrey Conaghan.

Students from India can apply for PhD programmes at Victoria's:
Deakin University
La Trobe University
Monash University
RMIT University
Swinburne University
The Australian Catholic University
The University of Melbourne
University of Ballarat
Victoria University

Each of these universities can offer doctoral opportunities across science, engineering, medicine, the social sciences and humanities, business studies, education and the arts.

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