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Griffith Business School offers many scholarships, awards, and prizes to support, recognise, and encourage new and continuing students to pursue their aspirations.

The School provides an inclusive and equal opportunities community for all, and our scholarships reflect this ethos. Eligibility is determined by factors including your background, chosen study field, hardships you’ve experienced, and your achievements so far

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Co-curricular awards

Applications for the 2024 co-curricular awards are now closed. The awards will reopen in 2025.

Leadership Award

The School's Leadership Award recognises a student who has demonstrated responsible leadership and who demonstrates the highest levels of integrity and ethical behaviour in their academic or community endeavours.

Value: $500 cash

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Sustainability Award

The School's Sustainability Award recognises a student who demonstrates an outstanding commitment to sustainability, including social, environmental or business sustainability. The work of the recipient may be in service to Griffith University or the wider community.

Value: $500 cash

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Community Service Award

The Griffith Business School Community Service Award recognises a student who has made a positive difference to the wider community through active and enthusiastic participation in community service or volunteering initiatives locally during the academic year.

Value: $500 cash

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BusinessPLUS Award

The Griffith Business School BusinessPLUS Award recognises a student who has demonstrated strong engagement in the Griffith BusinessPLUS program. The BusinessPLUS program supports and encourages students to participate in career enhancing activities that support their employability.

Value: 3 awards available valued at $250 each

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2024 Award Winners

Leadership Award

  • Afreeda Germean
  • Natalia Drazek

Sustainability Award

  • Megan Leafe
  • Naomi Saines

Community Service Award

  • Paris Grange
  • Bhavneet Singh

BusinessPLUS Award

  • Enoli Jerusha Tsitsi
  • Phoebe White
  • Tamana Mittal

2023 Award Winners

Leadership Award

Ms Sarah Bourke

Sustainability Award

Ms Ariana Doolan

Community Service Award

Ms Chrystal Coughlan

BusinessPLUS Award

Ms Cheyenne Apap

BusinessPLUS Award

Ms Natalia Drazek

BusinessPLUS Award

Ms Jennifer Osborne

2022 Award winners

Leadership Award

  • Demila Gabriel

Community Service Award

  • Robert Hall

Sustainability Award

  • Grace Mander

BusinessPLUS Awards

  • McKenzie Callcott
  • Jeffrey Langley

Academic awards

Academic Achievement Award

The Griffith Business School Academic Achievement Awards recognise students who are achieving at the highest level.

They are awarded to the student(s) who have completed at least 80 credit points in a Griffith Business School program and achieve a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 7.0.

Value: $500 cash

Pro Vice Chancellor (Business) Academic Excellence Award

The Pro Vice Chancellor (Business) Academic Excellence Award recognises overall outstanding academic achievement of a candidate undertaking a degree hosted by Griffith Business School.

It is awarded to the student who achieves the highest aggregate results of all students in undergraduate programs hosted by Griffith Business School.

Value: $1000 cash

More academic prizes and awards

GO GLOBAL Funding

Griffith University aims to provide one grant (scholarship) to each student on an approved overseas program. The grant can be used for co-curricula or curricular experiences. Grant values vary from $250 to $8,000 depending on the program type, location and credit point value. Students can also apply for an OS-Help loan to the value of $6,791 (studies outside Asia) or $8,149 (studies in Asia).

Postgraduate (PhD) Research Top-up Scholarships

Griffith Business School is awarding prestigious top-up scholarships to outstanding new PhD candidates to work with our world-renowned researchers on PhD projects in the area of business research.

The top-up scholarships are designed to support and encourage top-quality PhD research by providing successful candidates up to an additional $5,000 per year on top of their PhD Scholarship stipend for three years duration, contingent on satisfactory progress.

The top-up scholarships are an allowance of up to $5,000 per annum paid as a fortnightly stipend. The Scholarships will be awarded for up to three years.

The top-up scholarships are available to domestic and international candidates who:

  • are new candidates who have an Honours 1 degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field;
  • will be enrolled through Griffith Business School;
  • are also applying for a Research Training Program (RTP) or University-funded scholarship.

Please note; there will be no formal application process for new candidates. The Griffith Business School scholarship committee will assess applicants who meet the above criteria and will be awarded on a merit based system and awarded by order of overall final rank within the School. The awarding of top-up scholarships will be subject to funding availability and reviewed on an annual basis.

For further details please email: gbshdr@griffith.edu.au.