Scholarships & Bursaries

Ipswich Girls’ Grammar School offers a number of Scholarships and Bursaries each year to open up a world of opportunities for young women who demonstrate great potential to benefit from the personalised, holistic education IGGS provides.

Ipswich Girls’ Grammar School’s Scholarship Program is designed to reward and encourage students who continually strive for academic achievement and who maintain an active involvement in the Arts, community service and sport. The School believes that students who engage in all aspects of an all-round education will have every opportunity to develop into confident, well-educated young women.

Applications for the 2026 school year will open on Friday 29 November 2025.  

Scholarships are open to Australian students only.

Academic Scholarship

Academic Scholarships at Ipswich Girls’ Grammar School reward and recognise new and continuing students entering Years 7 to 12 who demonstrate academic excellence.

Defence Force Family Scholarship

Students entering Years 7 to 12 who are members of serving defence force families are encouraged to apply. These scholarships recognise the significant contribution and sacrifice that defence force families make whilst serving our nation.

Rural Scholarship

Ipswich Girls’ Grammar School offers specific scholarships to enable promising young rurally based young women the opportunity to be educated at the School, from Years 7 to 12.

Special Ability Scholarship – Performing Arts

Students entering Years 7 to 12 who demonstrate excellence and exemplary dedication to the Performing Arts are encouraged to apply for a Special Ability Scholarship – Performing Arts.

Special Ability Scholarship – Sport

Applications for the Special Ability Scholarship – Sport are open to students who demonstrate excellence in sport and a willingness to contribute to the School’s sporting activities through their participation, their representation of the School in competition and their encouragement of other athletes.

Australian Indigenous Education Foundation (AIEF) Scholarship

Ipswich Girls’ Grammar School (IGGS) is an Educational Partner of the AIEF and offers a limited number of scholarships under the AIEF Scholarship Program. The AIEF Scholarship Program provides scholarships that enable Indigenous students in financial need to attend leading Australian schools and universities.