Applicants must: be Australian citizens or permanent residents; have graduated from a Catholic secondary school and be of Catholic denomination; enrol, or be enrolled, as a full-time student upon commencement of their scholarship; have been offered a place in the School of Business or School of Philosophy and Theology; and be able to demonstrate that their educational opportunities are limited due to adverse circumstances such as distance, financial need, disability or responsibility for the care, the ill or the elderly. Selection is based on academic merit, financial need and personal circumstances.