ANU operates on a two semester calendar. A full-time study load is 8 subjects per year. Students can also enrol in a part time study load, which is 4 subjects per year. 

For information about the Bachelor of Laws and Combined Bachelor of Laws course information and typical study patterns, click here.

For information about the required subjects and course information in a Juris Doctor, click here.

Indigenous Support Centre 

Tjabal Indigenous Higher Education Centre is the Indigenous Support Centre at ANU Canberra. 

Law school contacts

Tjabal Centre reception 
tjabal.centre@anu.edu.au 
+61 2 6215 4038 

Andrew Coulter, Scholarship Manager 
andre.coulter@anu.edu.au
+61 2 6125 2363

Georgia North, Academic and Student Support Officer
georgia.north@anu.edu.au

Indigenous tutoring program

ANU operates the for Indigenous Tuition Program all First Nations students.  

Freilich Indigenous Student Scholarship in Law 

• Awarded to successful First Nations applicants for entry into the first year of a Bachelor of Laws (single and combined) or Juris Doctor. 
• Value is $8,000 per year

Kambri Indigenous Undergraduate Scholarship 

• Awarded to First Nations students who have applied for, or received an offer of admission to, or is enrolled in an undergraduate degree at ANU.
• Value is up to $30,000 over 5 years. 

Indigenous Commonwealth Accommodation Scholarship 

• Awarded to First Nations students from rural and regional and low-income backgrounds, or those required to move out of home to undertake their studies at ANU.
• Value is $7,500 per year. 

Indigenous Commonwealth Education Costs Scholarship

• Awarded to First Nations students from rural and regional and low-income backgrounds, or those required to move out of home to undertake their studies at ANU.
• Value is $5,000 per year for up to 3 years. 

ANU Changing Futures Scholarship

• Awarded to students who are shortlisted for a scholarship but unsuccessful in the final stage of that scholarship process, and who receive an offer of admission to an undergraduate program at ANU
• Value is $8,000 per year for up to 3 years. 

Australian National Scholarship 

• Awarded to students who received an offer of admission to an undergraduate degree at ANU and who satisfy one or more of the following criteria:

(i) Indigenous Australian; 

(ii) financial hardship;

(iii) long-term medical condition/disability or ongoing effects of abuse; 

(iv) refugee status; or

(v) attended the final years of school at a law ICSEA school.

• Value is $8,000 per year for up to five years.

Indigenous Australian Graduate Scholarship

• Awarded to First Nations people undertaking graduate study. 
• Value is $28,597 per year.

Charlie Perkins Scholarships

• Awarded to First Nations students to undertake a Postgraduate study at the University of Oxford or the University of Cambridge. 

Christina Richards Scholarship

• Awarded to students who have experienced long-term educational disadvantage to complete an undergraduate degree at ANU. 
• Value is $5,000 per year.

Indigenous Australian Reconciliation PhD Scholarship

• Awarded to a First Nation student undertaking a PhD.
• Value is $28,597 per year.

Joseph & Lindsay Croft Scholarship

• Awarded to First Nations students who can demonstrate financial need to understand their studies at ANU. 
• Value is a variable one-off payment. 

Judith Wright Scholarship 

• Awarded to female First Nations undergraduate students who have completed a minimum of 36 units and a maximum of 48 units of undergraduate study at ANU to assist them to undertake research in their chosen field of study in the future.
• Value is $8,000 per year.

Kentwell Family Scholarship

• Awarded to First Nations students enrolling in an undergraduate degree. Preference will be given to students from a rural or regional area and/or those experiencing financial hardship.
• Value is $7,000 per year for up to 5 years. 

Ken Wanganeen Scholarship

• Awarded to First Nations students enrolled or enrolling in a postgraduate program at ANU or an Australian National Internships program.  
• Value is a variable one-off payment for full value.

Mardi & John Scholarship

• Awarded to First Nations high school leavers applying for admission to ANU for the first time and who received an ANU selection rank of less than 90.00 (no bonus points).
• Value is $8,000 per year for up to 5 years.

Margaret Thorp Memorial Scholarship 

• Awarded to prospective ANU undergraduate students facing financial hardship.
• Value is $10,000 per year for up to 5 years.

National Indigenous Merit Scholarship

• Awarded to First Nations students who achieved an ATAR between 90 and 94.95 (no adjustment factors) and who have not enrolled in any undergraduate degree before commencing at ANU.
• Value is $6,500 per year for up to 5 years.

National Indigenous University Scholarship

• Awarded to First Nations students who achieved an ATAR of 90 or above (no adjustment factors) and who have not enrolled in any undergraduate degree before commencing at ANU.
• Value is $12,500 per year for up to 5 years.

Neville Bonner Memorial Scholarship

• Awarded to First Nations recipients of an offer of admission into an eligible Honours program in politics or political science (or related subjects).
• Value is approximately $28,597 per year. 

Nugget Coombs Indigenous Australian Scholarships

• Awarded to First Nations students who have completed at least the first year of their undergraduate or postgraduate studies.
• Value is a variable one-off payment for full value.

Rural & Regional Enterprise Scholarship

• Awarded to students from rural and regional Australian studying any discipline from Certificate IV to PhD level who can demonstrate financial need.
• Value is up to $18,000. 

Tina and Tano Salpietro Award

• Awarded to students who have applied and intend to undertake an internship in the Kimberley with the Kimberley Community Legal Service. 
• Value is $3,500.

UniLodge Australia Scholarship 

• Awarded to high school leavers from disadvantaged backgrounds applying for university for the first time.
• Value is $8,000 per year for up to 5 years.

ANU does not offer a PLT program.