The Australian government and Australian universities provide a large number of scholarships for international students wanting to study in Australia. There a wide list of universities and colleges in Australia offering scholarships on different courses and grades of education. Like many other countries Australia is also offering a number of study loans and other financial aids to international students worldwide. Although not all but most of the scholarships programs are merit based, mean students are chosen on academic merit or other the basis of other leader ship or artistic merits. With that there are many need based scholarships offered by the Australian universities.