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The Woods Bagot Scholarship in Architecture
WHEREAS, Woods Bagot Pty Ltd has agreed to provide an annual scholarship to reward academic achievement in architecture and to assist scholars in gaining professional work experience, the following rules are hereby made:
- The scholarship shall be known as "The Woods Bagot Scholarship in Architecture".
- The value of the scholarship shall be $3,000, to be paid in two annual instalments of $1500 each.*
- The scholarship is tenable for one year, provided that the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design may terminate a scholarship if a scholar's progress is unsatisfactory at the end of the first semester of the final year of the Bachelor of Architecture or the first semester of the second year of the 'architecture stream' of the Bachelor of Architecture/Bachelor of Landscape Architecture program. The scholarship will normally lapse if a scholar is not enrolled as a full-time student in Levels I and II of the Bachelor of Architecture program or 'architecture stream' of the Bachelor of Architecture/Bachelor of Landscape Architecture double-degree program in consecutive years following the award of the scholarship.
- A scholarship which is forfeited or lapses may be awarded to a student who has completed the work of Level I of the Bachelor of Architecture or the 'architecture stream' of the Bachelor of Architecture/Bachelor of Landscapr Architecture program and who is enrolled in Level II architectural courses of either program.
- The scholarship is open to any full-time student of the Bachelor of Architecture program or the 'architecture stream' of the Bachelor of Architecture/Bachelor of Landscape Architecture double-degree program who has successfully completed all of the examinations in Semester 1 of the first year of one of these program, who is in the top 20 percent of students in the aggregate mark of the compulsory courses in Semester 1 of Level I, and who is enrolled in Semester 2 of the program.
- The Dean of School shall, with the consent of the nominee in each case, recommend to the Selection Committee three to five candidates from the Bachelor of Architecture program and/or the 'architectural stream' of the Bachelor of Architecture/Bachelor of Landscape Architecture double-degree program chosen on the basis of academic merit according to Rule 5.
- The Selection Committee, comprising the Head of School (Convener), the Professor of Architecture (or nominee), a member of academic staff of the School, and two nominees of Woods Bagot Pty Ltd shall, in making its selection, take into account academic excellence, an ability to recognise the relationship between academic studies and the needs of the profession of architecture and evidence of a professional approach to architecture.
- The scholarship shall be awarded by the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design on the recommendation of the Selection Committee.
- No award shall be made under the above rules if no candidate is considered by the School to be of sufficient merit.
- In the event of there being two or more candidates of equal merit, the award shall be shared equally between them.
- These rules may be varied from time to time by agreement between the University and Woods Bagot Pty Ltd.
*Woods Bagot Pty Ltd may in addition offer work experience to the scholar.

