Academic Awards and Prizes

Name Number Available Amount Eligible Student Sponsor Closing Date Other Details
The Amadeus COMP9322 Prize 1 $500 All students undertaking COMP9322 Service-Oriented Architectures  N/A Winner nominated by LIC
The Anita Borg Award 1 $2,000 All final-year female students in CSE Programs Gernot Heiser and Trudy Weibel  31 January Details emailled to students
The Aurec UG Computer Science & Engineering Scholarship for 3rd Year Students 4 $5,000 All Year 4 students of any undergraduate CSE Programs AUREC MAIN LOGO1a  TBA Apply through UNSW Scholarships
The CISRA Best Research Paper Award 1 $2,000 All CSE PhD Students cisralogo  TBA  
The CiSRA Project Award 2 $2,000 All students in CSE UG Programs cisralogo  TBA  
The CiSRA Year 2 Award 3 $2,000 Eligible students are nominated by CSE cisralogo  TBA  
The CiSRA Year 3 Award 3 $2,000 Eligible students are nominated by CSE cisralogo  TBA  
The CSE Postgraduate Performance Prize 10 $0 Best WAM for 24 units of Group D courses by a pgrad The School of Computer Science and Engineering  N/A  
The CSE Undergraduate Performance Prize Year 1 10 $0 All Year 1 students undertaking COMP1711 and 1721 The School of Computer Science and Engineering  N/A  
The CSE Undergraduate Performance Prize Year 2 10 $0 All Year 2 students undertaking 18 UoC or more COMP Courses The School of Computer Science and Engineering  N/A  
The CSE Undergraduate Performance Prize Year 3 10 $0 All Year 3 students undertaking 24 UoC or more COMP Courses The School of Computer Science and Engineering  N/A  
The CSE Undergraduate Performance Prize Year 4 10 $0 All students undertaking COMP WAM for (COMP|SENG|BINF)(4911|4931) plus any 12 units of COMP The School of Computer Science and Engineering  N/A  
The Google Third Year Prize 1 $1,000 Best 3 from:
COMP3111, COMP3121, COMP9243, COMP3141, COMP1927, COMP3131, COMP3171, COMP3231, COMP3411, COMP3421, COMP3821, COMP4121, COMP9417, COMP9517
 N/A  
The Macquarie Performance Prize for Year 1 3 1st $500, 2nd $350 and 3rd $250 All Year 1 students undertaking COMP1711 and 1721  N/A Top three students of the The CSE Undergraduate Performance Prize Year 1
The Macquarie Performance Prize for Year 2 3 1st $500, 2nd $350 and 3rd $250 All Year 2 students undertaking 18 UoC or more COMP Courses  N/A Top three students of the The CSE Undergraduate Performance Prize Year2
The Macquarie Second Year Software Engineering Award 1 team $2,000 All SENG2020 students  N/A  
The Microforte COMP4431 Prize 1 team $500 All students undertaking COMP4431 Game Design Workshop  N/A  
The Microsoft Performance Prize - Year 3 2 Prize All Year 3 students undertaking 24 UoC or more COMP Courses  N/A  
The Murray Allen Award in Computer Science 1 $3,000 All students entering the honours year of Computer Science Professor Murray Allen  N/A  
The NICTA Performance Prize 1 $1,000 All students undertaking COMP WAM for (COMP|SENG|BINF)(4911|4931) plus any 12 units of COMP  N/A  
The OzLabs Operating System Award 1 $2,000 All students undertaking Operating Systems Courses  N/A  Not offered in 2011
The UNSW COMPUTING John Lions Prize for Contribution to Open Software 1 $1,000 Australian High School and University Students The School of Computer Science and Engineering  TBA Enter Here

** Prizes ($500-$1,999): Prizes have no application procedure, but reward students on work already performed.
** Awards ($2,000-$4,999): Awards may have an application or shortlisting procedure.
** Scholarships ($5,000 + ): Sponsors can outline the selection process (either from high school or from our current cohort) for selecting Scholars.  Scholarships sometimes have an internship built into them.

Information on sponsoring can be found here.

 

 

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