Tertiary Access Payment (TAP)

The Tertiary Access Payment is funded by the Commonwealth Government following a recommendation by the Napthine Review. It helps students with additional costs associated with the transition to higher education, such as relocation, travel and accommodation.

It aims to encourage students in inner regional, outer regional and remote or very remote area Australia to access high-level tertiary study (Certificate IV or above) in the year immediately following Year 12, rather than taking a gap year.

If you wish to know more about the TAP, more information is available on the Department of Education, Skills and Employment website. 

Eligibility requirements

• an Australian resident
• meeting study rules
• from an inner regional, outer regional, remote or very remote area
• moving to study at a tertiary education provider that’s more than 90 minutes away from your family home by public transport
• have completed year 12 or equivalent
• studying a tertiary course at certificate IV or above in the next available study period after year 12 with no gap year
• 22 or younger on the day you start your tertiary course
• have parents or guardians whose income is under the current combined parental income limit of $250,000.

This grant will be managed by the Government from 2022 onwards. For more information, please visit Services Australia.

Further queries please contact regional@dese.gov.au