Vice-Chancellor’s High Achievement Fund

The Vice-Chancellor’s High Achievement Prize helps create opportunity for regional students with the potential to lead.

Across our region, many students are already showing us who they are - achieving in the classroom, contributing to their schools, supporting their peers and playing an active role in community life. They are recognised not for marks alone, but as all-rounders who demonstrate leadership, service, commitment and the potential to make a lasting difference.

Each year, UNE invites more than 85 schools across the region to nominate outstanding students for this prize. It is an important way to recognise local talent, strengthen connections with schools and communities, and celebrate young people who are already contributing to the places they call home.

UNE currently supports selected students with a $2,000 prize if they choose to study at UNE. But for some, the cost of moving away from home, living on campus and beginning university life can still feel out of reach.

By partnering with our regional communities, UNE aims to grow this fund so students can receive more meaningful support toward their first year of accommodation. If our communities can help match UNE’s commitment, together we can create a stronger pathway to university for promising regional students.

Your gift can help give a high-achieving regional student the chance to live on campus, build lifelong connections, access support and fully participate in the UNE experience. It can help remove one of the biggest barriers to taking that first step, giving students the confidence to imagine what is possible for their future.

These are the students who may go on to lead classrooms, businesses, services, organisations and communities across our region and beyond.

Your generosity can help ensure the cost of first-year accommodation does not stand between a high-achieving regional student and the future they are ready to build.