Masters and doctoral fees and loans

Impact of your enrolment on student loans and allowances
If you intend to apply for a student loan or student allowance through StudyLink, you need to be aware of the correlation between your enrolment and your eligibility for funding.

To find out more, see Student loans and allowances.

Eligibility
The following information should be used as an indication on whether you may be eligible under each situation. It does not take into account an individual student's basic eligibility (income, residency, etc).

1. Standard masters enrolment
   The standard one-year masters enrolment, for a student beginning in the first semester of any year, has sufficient points for a student enrolled in a full time workload (120 points) to receive student loan/student allowance funding. This is usually based on the default enrolment end-date of mid-December.
2. Masters enrolment with extension
   As per the University regulations for masters students, a short extension is available that allows the student to submit their thesis by the end of the February after their start date. This is not an automatic right, and students wishing to make use of this regulation must have approval from their Head of Department.
   
   Full-time thesis students who have been granted the short extension do not have their new end date automatically reflected against their enrolment (and therefore this is not automatically confirmed with StudyLink). It is necessary for the student to approach their department and request enrolment into the GENADMIN SR1 course in the 'late year' term. While this course does not have any tuition fees/points associated with it, it will allow confirmation of the change in a student's end date following approval of the short extension to be provided to StudyLink.
   
   Once a student is enrolled in the extension course, it is their responsibility to request that StudyLink re-confirms their full year enrolment.
   
   For a 120-point enrolment, a student would be considered full time for student loan and/or student allowance purposes.
3. Masters enrolment with two extensions
   If a masters student receives approval from their Head of Department to begin their thesis earlier than the standard start date of first semester, the student would need to discuss this situation with both their department and StudyLink Liaison as there may be implications on a student's eligibility for StudyLink funding.

Your enrolment

• When you are first enrolled into a doctoral programme, you will receive a letter from the Graduate Office confirming your official start date.
• You will need to re-enrol for every year of your doctoral programme — it will not happen automatically.
• When you are re-enrolled, you will automatically be enrolled into a full doctoral year, and will be charged the fees accordingly.
• In your final year, you will still be enrolled into a full 12-month period, and will be expected to pay the full fees related to that enrolment.
• After you have submitted your work, the Graduate Office will update your enrolment to reflect the change in end date and your fees will be recalculated accordingly. A refund will be issued, if necessary, following the correction to your enrolment dates.

Paying your fees

• You can create a statement, request a tax invoice, and pay your fees by credit card on Student Services Online.
• It is your responsibility to make sure that your fees are paid in full by the due date. If you are arranging payment through a third party (eg, through department/faculty, or external scholarship) you must make sure that you provide this third party a copy of your invoice. Some funding avenues can't make payment until you show them proof of how much to pay.