Are you a high achiever seeking the most out of your undergraduate uni experience? The Catalyst Program combines your bachelor's degree with scholarships and unique study experiences, along with special events and networking opportunities.
Beyond the inclusions all Catalyst students receive, you can take advantage of additional benefits specific to your degree. Choose from expanded study options to challenge your ability and have first choice of work-integrated learning opportunities or research projects.
The Catalyst Program gives you the best value uni experience and ensures you'll stand out in your chosen field. The experiences, networks and skills you develop along the way set you up to lead meaningful change in societies and workplaces globally.
Catalyst program inclusions
Join the Catalyst community
Take part in a range of activities each year that connect you with other Catalyst students. These include University-wide events for the whole community, to course-specific events that provide bespoke experiences relevant to your area of study.
Catalyst program scholarship
As a Catalyst student, you’ll receive a $3,000 Catalyst Program Scholarship, delivered as two $1,500 payments over your first two semesters. Once you’re admitted to the program, all you need to do is enrol in and successfully pass your units each semester.
Catalyst ambassadors
Each course in the program has a Catalyst Ambassador who provides mentorship, support and guidance. They also bring you together with other Catalyst students and help you make the most of all the program's features and benefits.
Join the Catalyst community
Take part in a range of activities each year that connect you with other Catalyst students. These include University-wide events for the whole community, to course-specific events that provide bespoke experiences relevant to your area of study.
Catalyst program scholarship
International students who qualify for the Catalyst Program automatically qualify for the Tasmanian International Scholarship. This gives you a 25% reduction in tuition fees for the duration of your course, so long as you successfully pass your units each semester.
Catalyst ambassadors
Each course in the program has a Catalyst Ambassador who provides mentorship, support and guidance. They also bring you together with other Catalyst students and help you make the most of all the program's features and benefits.
Overseas educational experience
Up to $2,500 is available to support overseas experiences relevant to your degree. And if you successfully apply for a semester overseas exchange program, the full amount is guaranteed. Explore overseas partners and experiences for your course below.
Experience-based learning
Take advantage of up to $3,000 to support experience-based opportunities for your degree or to expand your study. From preferential placement on a corporate internship to summer research projects, explore what's available for your course.
Bachelor of Philosophy
Created for critical and creative thinkers, you can apply to study this unique companion degree with a 100% HECS fee waiver. Expand your uni experience to include multi-disciplinary perspectives to affect positive change no matter what your career.
Overseas educational experience
Up to $2,500 is available to support overseas experiences relevant to your degree. And if you successfully apply for a semester overseas exchange program, the full amount is guaranteed. Explore overseas partners and experiences for your course below.
Experience-based learning
Take advantage of up to $3,000 to support experience-based opportunities for your degree or to expand your study. From preferential placement on a corporate internship to summer research projects, explore what's available for your course.
Bachelor of Philosophy
Developed for critical and creative thinkers, you can apply to study this unique companion degree in parallel to your course. Expand your uni experience to include multi-disciplinary perspectives to affect positive change no matter what your career.
Catalyst program course options
Benefits specific to your course
Meet your Catalyst Ambassador for Business and Economics
View Dr Clint Levitt's profile
As a Business or Economics student in the Catalyst Program, you will connect with likeminded staff and students through an annual calendar of networking events, guest speaker visits and special seminars.
Our global Business and Economics partner institutions include EM Strasbourg Business School (France), Skema Business School (France), Mendel University of Brno (Czech Republic), The Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada), Thompson Rivers University (Canada), University of Sussex (UK), and WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management (Germany).
As a Catalyst student, you can receive up to $2,500 in scholarship funds if you successfully apply to undertake a semester exchange with one of these or another of the 150 partner institutions of the University of Tasmania.
- Corporate Internship Program
As a Catalyst student, you will be considered first for industry placements in the Corporate Internship Program during your final year of study. These internships give you invaluable industry experience and exposure to Tasmania’s top business minds. - Behavioural Economics for Policy Unit
You are eligible to apply for a research project opportunity in the experimental lab as part of the Behavioural Economics for Policy Unit. These highly sought-after placements give you research support experience in applying behavioural insights to policy challenges. Projects often involve designing interventions to combat challenges, and undertaking lab or field-based experiments to test their effectiveness. - Other Catalyst Research Projects
You are eligible to apply for research assistant experience in exciting research projects led by our Business and Economics investigators. These could involve data collection, quantitative or qualitative data analysis, literature reviews and much more. Explore our current research projects to get a sense of our research strengths and opportunities. - Catalyst Work Placement
You are eligible to apply for a range of work placement opportunities including preferential access to highly-valued work-experience opportunities on key projects with industry partners and paid summer work placements in firms. Find out more about these opportunities during your Catalyst welcome events. - Professional Development
You are eligible to apply for up to $500 in financial support to fund professional development opportunities such as leadership development, advanced software training, as well as industry seminars, workshops or events. - Membership of Industry Associations
You are eligible to apply for financial support to cover membership of industry associations such as the Economics Society of Australia (Tasmania), providing opportunities for you to engage and network with practicing professionals.
Benefits specific to your course
Meet your Catalyst Ambassador for Architecture and Design
As an Architecture or Design student in the Catalyst Program, you will connect with likeminded staff and students through an annual calendar of networking events, guest speaker visits and special seminars.
As a Catalyst student, you can receive up to $2,500 in scholarship funds if you successfully apply to undertake a semester exchange with one of our partner institutions of the University of Tasmania.
Our global Architecture partner institutions include University of Liverpool (UK), Tecnologico De Monterrey (Mexico), University of Texas at Austin (USA), University of Virginia (USA) and Cracow University of Technology (Poland).
An example exchange opportunity for an Architecture or Design student:
The New Colombo Plan High Achievers Scholarship Program
Connecting culture and tradition through bamboo architecture + agriculture
The New Colombo Plan Scholarship is a prestigious Australian Government program that provides opportunities for high achieving students enrolled in undergraduate programs to undertake a semester of study overseas within 40 approved countries within the Indo-Pacific region.
Summer research project
You will have the chance to apply for a Summer Research Project where you will work with a supervisor on a research topic. Through negotiation with your supervisor, you will have the opportunity to align your project with a research topic that interests you. As a Catalyst Student, you'll access a scholarship up to $3,000 to support your project.
Benefits specific to your course
Bachelor of Natural Environment and Wilderness
Meet your Catalyst Ambassador
As a Natural Environment and Wilderness student in the Catalyst Program, you will connect with likeminded staff and students through an annual calendar of networking events, guest speaker visits and special seminars.
As a Catalyst student, you can receive up to $2,500 in scholarship funds if you successfully apply to undertake a semester exchange with one of these or another of the 150 partner institutions of the University of Tasmania.
Summer research project
You will have the chance to investigate environmental change in Tasmania’s landscapes through a Summer Research Project. Under the supervision of an experienced academic, you will contribute to research that investigates genuine issues in Tasmania. Example projects could be assessing bushfire management in urban bushland, investigating impacts of bush walkers on tracks in wilderness areas, or assessing social change in mountain bike track developments.
Through negotiation with your supervisor, you will have the opportunity to align your project with a research topic that interests you. As a Catalyst Student, you'll receive a scholarship of $3,000 to support your project.
Bachelor of Marine and Antarctic Science
Meet your Catalyst Ambassador
As a Marine and Antarctic Science student in the Catalyst Program, you will connect with likeminded staff and students through an annual calendar of networking events, guest speaker visits and special seminars. You will also have the opportunity to accompany staff on research trips across Tasmania’s wilderness areas.
As a Catalyst student, you can receive up to $2,500 in scholarship funds if you successfully apply to undertake a semester exchange with one of these or another of the 150 partner institutions of the University of Tasmania.
Summer research project
You will have the chance to apply for a Summer Research Project where you will work with a supervisor on a research topic. Past projects have covered a wide range of subjects such as Climate-driven changes in ocean oxygen, Reconstructing dust deposition and biological productivity in the polar frontal region, and sampling for paleoceanographic reconstructions of ocean circulation and productivity.
Through negotiation with your supervisor, you will have the opportunity to align your project with a research topic that interests you. As a Catalyst Student, you'll receive a scholarship of $3,000 to support your project.
Benefits specific to your course
Bachelor of Pharmacy with Honours
Meet your Catalyst Ambassador
View Dr Mackenzie Williams's profile
As a Catalyst student, you can receive up to $2,500 in scholarship funds if you successfully apply to undertake a semester exchange with one of these or another of the 150 partner institutions of the University of Tasmania.
As a Pharmacy student, this could include an international clinical pharmacy placement with our partners in the United Kingdom or Canada.
Enhance your study experience with a Scholarship (up to $3,000 HECS waiver) to support any approved unit in the field of medication management that provides RPL relevant to Graduate Certificate. Eg CAM554 Clinical Redesign (part of Graduate Certificate (Clinical Redesign) (M5V) or new Postgraduate Pharmacy Specific Unit (Masters/Specialisation).
Bachelor of Medical Research
Meet your Catalyst Ambassador
As a Medical Research student in the Catalyst Program, you will connect with likeminded staff and students through an annual calendar of networking events, guest speaker visits and special seminars.
As a Catalyst student, you can receive up to $2,500 in scholarship funds if you successfully apply to undertake a semester exchange with one of these or another of the 150 partner institutions of the University of Tasmania.
Enhance your study experience with a Summer research project opportunity (locally or interstate) in your first or second year.
Benefits specific to your course
Bachelor of Science
Meet your Catalyst Ambassador
View Dr Rebecca Jones's profile
As a Science student in the Catalyst Program, you will connect with likeminded staff and students through an annual calendar of networking events, guest speaker visits and special seminars.
As a Catalyst student, you can receive up to $2,500 in scholarship funds if you successfully apply to undertake a semester exchange with one of these or another of the 150 partner institutions of the University of Tasmania.
Summer research project
You will have the chance to apply for a Summer Research Project where you will work with a supervisor on a research topic. Past projects have covered a wide range of subjects such as health care modelling of bed in intensive care units, supercomputer simulations of a black hole in distant galaxies and chemical analysis of heavy metals in Tasmanian fish. Through negotiation with your supervisor, you will have the opportunity to align your project with a research topic that interests you. As a Catalyst Student, you'll access a scholarship up to $3,000 to support your project.
Bachelor of Engineering
Meet your Catalyst Ambassador
As an Engineering student in the Catalyst Program, you will connect with likeminded staff and students through an annual calendar of networking events, guest speaker visits and special seminars. Recent speakers have included Dr Alan Finkel (Australian Chief Scientist), Benita Husband (CEO Pitt & Sherry) and David Bartlett (ex-Premier of Tasmania).
As a Catalyst student, you can receive up to $2,500 in scholarship funds if you successfully apply to undertake a semester exchange with one of these or another of the 150 partner institutions of the University of Tasmania.
Humanitarian Design Summit
The Engineers Without Borders Humanitarian Design Summit is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for an immersive learning experience. Over 14 days, you’ll push your boundaries and gain insight into best practice community development.
Summer research project
You will have the chance to apply for a Summer Research Project where you will work with a supervisor on a research topic. Example projects could be investigating small-scale wind turbine viability in Tasmania, assessing intelligent smart home simulators or designing a mobile aquatic drone for collection of waste in bodies of water. Through negotiation with your supervisor, you will have the opportunity to align your project with a research topic that interests you. As a Catalyst Student, you'll access a scholarship up to $3,000 to support your project.
Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology
Meet your Catalyst Ambassador
View Dr Erin Roehrer's profile
As an Information and Communication Technology student in the Catalyst Program, you will connect with likeminded staff and students through an annual calendar of networking events, guest speaker visits and special seminars.
As a Catalyst student, you can receive up to $2,500 in scholarship funds if you successfully apply to undertake a semester exchange with one of these or another of the 150 partner institutions of the University of Tasmania.
Summer research project
You will have the chance to apply for a Summer Research Project where you will work with a supervisor on a research topic. Through negotiation with your supervisor, you will have the opportunity to align your project with a research topic that interests you. As a Catalyst Student, you'll receive a scholarship of $3,000 to support your project.
Eligibility requirements
If you are a school leaver or completed school in the last two years
The Catalyst Program is designed for high achieving school leavers who completed secondary education within the past two years.
An automatic assessment is conducted once ATARs are released and continues until applications close for the coming semester.
In order to be eligible you need to have:
- Completed secondary education within the past two years;
- Achieved an ATAR of 90 or greater; and
- Have applied to study a course included in the Catalyst Program.
If you are eligible, you'll be contacted via email with an offer for the Catalyst Program, together with information on how to accept your offer and enrol.
If you are a non-school leaver or current student at the University
You can apply to join the Catalyst Program after your first year of study if you:
- Achieve a cumulative GPA of 6.0 across at least two full semesters of study;
- Are enrolled as a full time or part-time student at census date of your current year of study; and
- Are studying one of the courses included in the Catalyst Program.
If you are a continuing student, you will not be eligible for the financial (Catalyst Program Scholarship) component of the program. However, you may be eligible to access other components such as the overseas educational experience and experience-based learning scholarships. To register your interest please contact your relevant catalyst ambassador (listed under Catalyst program course options).
Eligibility requirements
If you are applying to study at the University of Tasmania
In order to be eligible you need to have applied to study a course included in the Catalyst Program and satisfied all admission requirements for international students. Information for international applicants, including English language requirements, is available from the International Future Students site. You can also enquire online to check your eligibility.
In addition you need to have:
- Completed secondary education within the past two years;
- Achieved an ATAR of 90 or equivalent; and
- Have applied to study a course included in the Catalyst Program.
An automatic assessment continues until applications close for the coming semester.
If you are eligible, you will be notified as part of your course offer or be contacted via email or with an offer for the Catalyst Program, together with information on how to accept.
If you are a current student at the University of Tasmania
You can apply to join the Catalyst Program after your first year of study if you:
- Achieve a cumulative GPA of 6.0 across at least two full semesters of study;
- Are enrolled as a full time or part-time student at census date of your current year of study; and
- Are studying one of the courses included in the Catalyst Program.
If you are a continuing student, you will not be eligible for the financial (Tasmanian International Scholarship) component of the program. However, you may be eligible to access other components such as the overseas educational experience and experience-based learning scholarships.
Double degrees
Interested in studying a double degree which includes a Catalyst course? The inclusions will simply apply to the course which is part of the program.
If your double degree includes two Catalyst courses, you'll receive the Catalyst Program Scholarship once, with the other inclusions applying to both courses.
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Applying to study with us is free using our simple online form. Find out how to apply to get started.
If you would like help applying, please enquire with our friendly team. You can even set up an appointment to be guided through the process.
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