Deadlines for this scholarship
An award closing is only the first of the dates that matter. After it there is the deposit that keeps your place, the unconditional offer the funder wants to see before it pays, and a last day to arrive and register. Where the funder publishes none of these, the row says so — a blank is what the official page actually says, not something we have left out.
No closing date published. This funder sets its closing date per country, or opens the call only when the cycle begins. Send us your documents and we will apply the moment your country’s window opens.
Who can apply
Yes in principle - Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Gulf nationals can be awarded RTP Stipend plus RTP Tuition Fee Offset (long-distance/overseas) places, but each university runs its own round and caps international places, and some rounds exclude offshore applicants (e.g. UQ's 2027 Q1/Q2 round is "open to graduated and current domestic students, and onshore international students currently studying at any Australian university").
What the award is
Commonwealth funding that Australian universities use to award RTP Scholarships (a tuition fee offset plus a tax-free living allowance) to domestic and international students in higher-degree-by-research programs (research master's and PhD). There is no central deadline - you apply through each university's HDR scholarship rounds, so check the specific university's intake dates. Official source: https://www.education.gov.au/research-block-grants/research-training-program (checked 29 October 2026).Where these dates came from
All four columns blank because the RTP has no national deadline: the scheme funds higher education providers, which run their own scholarship rounds and publish their own closing dates, so there is no single date the funder states for 2027 entry and no tuition/CAS/enrolment date either. The representative university round page (University of Queensland "Graduate School Scholarships - includes RTP", page last modified 13 October 2026) shows both of its 2027-commencement rounds already shut - "Monday 31 August 2026 - Application closing date" (Research Quarter 1 or 2 2027) and "Monday 19 October 2026 - Application closing date" (Research Quarter 4 2027 or early 2028, international applicants only) - with no date published for the next round, so nothing may be carried into a 2027 row — https://scholarships.uq.edu.au/scholarship/graduate-school-scholarships-uqgss-%E2%80%93-includes-rtp (checked 30 October 2026). The federal department's own pages could not be opened from this network: www.education.gov.au/research-block-grants/research-training-program and its students' FAQ failed to connect on every attempt and dssmo.gov.au does not resolve, so no departmental statement could be quoted — https://www.education.gov.au/research-block-grants/research-training-program (checked 30 October 2026).
Deadlines move. Always confirm on the funder's own page before you book anything — the link above is where we read it.
