Through its member and partner universities, NICTA offers PhD students:
- Scholarship opportunities
- Facilitated access to advanced research and specialist coursework
- World-class supervision in a challenging and supportive environment
- Practical research, industry and domain experience, locally and internationally
- Professional skills development such as project management, commercialisation and communication
- Placement in a particular NICTA research program with the opportunity to work on state-of-the-art research
- Opportunities to work on development and commercialisation projects
- A possible research pathway to commercialisation
- Research internships and exchanges with international ICT research centres and universities
- World-class infrastructure.
Most students who participate in NICTA's enhanced PhD program are awarded NICTA-sponsored scholarships.