Prizes Frequently Asked Questions

Prizes are a merit-based award, based on specific criteria, which recognises and rewards individual students who demonstrate outstanding achievement in a course, unit, excellence in professional experience or community engagement.

Prizes are offered for continuing and graduating students and may be a cash payment, item or equipment, voucher, membership, trophy or medal, subscription to a professional organisation or a plaque.

You can email prizes@scu.edu.au or talk to your course coordinator.

No. The majority of prizes do not require an application. Prize winners are determined by each Faculty or Campus based on the specific prize criteria. However, some prizes do require an application and the Faculty or Campus will invite students to submit an application.

The Faculty or Campus will select the prize winner based on the specific prize criteria and provide the details to Student Administration Services.

The prize details will display in My Enrolment / Rewards and all prize winners receive an email from prizes@scu.edu.au notifying they are a prize winner and providing details of the prize.

Students who win a cash payment prize are provided with instructions on how to submit their bank account details to the University.

Your notification email will include details of a schedule prize giving event. Cash payments are processed after the prize giving.

Yes – prize winners of a cash payment are requested to enter their bank account details in My Enrolment. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure the details entered are true and correct.

Please email prizes@scu.edu.au for further information on providing overseas bank account details.

The notification email includes the due-by-date to enter your bank account details in My Enrolment and the expected payment date.

Unless otherwise specified in your notification email, prizes are awarded retrospectively. Prize winners can expect to receive their prize pack during April each year.

Yes – if the deadline to enter your bank account details has not past. Revisit My Enrolment and update the information. If the deadline has past, contact prizes@scu.edu.au as soon as possible before the expected payment date.

Please check the bank account details are correct as money deposited to an incorrect bank account cannot be recovered.

Yes – if you meet the specific prize criteria and endorsed by the Faculty or Campus.

If you are unable to attend a prize giving event, please contact prizes@scu.edu.au or the contact person who issued the event invitation.

A congratulatory letter and prize certificate. The prize pack may also include a donor issued certificate and/or prize item. Your Academic Transcript and Australian Higher Education Graduate statement (AHEGS)* eQuals will be updated to show your Academic Prize.

* AHEGS is only available to graduating prize winners.

Yes – the prize is acknowledged on your academic transcript under Academic Notes section and on your graduating Australian Higher Education Graduate statement (AHEGS) under Special Achievements, Recognition and Rewards section