Don't miss an opportunity to attend the Aurora Study Tour!
Aurora offers two Study Tours - one for the UK and one for the USA.

The UK Study Tour is a unique opportunity for Indigenous students and professionals considering postgraduate study overseas. The tour includes multi-week visits to prestigious institutions in Oxford, Cambridge and London.
The USA Study Tour visits institutions in Tucson, New York City and Boston.
Study Tour Participants have become part of a strong network of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peers. Many have returned from the Study Tour to soon pursue studies overseas, either immediately or in the future.

Since 2011 years on, the Aurora Study Tour has:
   •  provided opportunities for over 200 talented Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to gain insights into the experience of undertaking postgraduate study at premier overseas institutions.
   •  seen 60% participants go on to apply to study at the universities visited, with 93% being accepted.
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 To be eligible applicants must: 
  • Be of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent;
  • Identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and be accepted as such by the community in which they live or have lived;
  • Provide written confirmation of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander identity from an incorporated Indigenous organisation or Land Council;
  • Hold a Bachelor degree with a minimum Distinction average (equivalent to a GPA of 6.0 - 7.0 or WAM of 70-79) OR must be enrolled in or have completed an Honours degree (First Class or Upper Second Class Honours) OR postgraduate study with a Distinction average;
  • Have a strong interest in postgraduate study overseas;
  • Be able to demonstrate a commitment to giving back to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and;
  • Be available to attend the Study Tour Symposium in Sydney. 
Application Dates:

Applications for both the UK and USA Study Tour open in late September and close mid-January each year.

For further information on the Aurora Study Tour, please visit the Aurora Indigenous Pathways Portal or email the Aurora Study Tour Team on [email protected].
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2024 UK Study Tour Participants at the 2024 Chevening and Aurora Partnership 15th Anniversary Celebration at Lancaster House
Going into the Aurora Study Tour, I had certain expectations as to the kinds of things I might learn: about application processes, about finding supervisors, a little about campus culture and about whether it would be realistic for me to apply. … I think what the Tour did for me was different and a lot greater from that.  I managed to get answers to all of the questions I had anticipated.  I also got a good sense of whether I would be right for a university and whether a university would be right for me.  But by far the most important thing to come from the trip was that I started to see myself there, at these kinds of institutions.        
Jessyca Hutchens, 2013 Study Tour Participant
​Jess went on to study her DPhil in Fine Art at Oxford University as a Charlie Perkins Scholar
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You can read more about the experience in the words of participants by clicking below:
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2020 Study Tour Reflections
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2019 Study Tour Reflections
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2018 Study Tour Reflections