I have done my undergraduate study in Materials Science from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. I am currently working as a Research Assistant in the same university but in a different department, biomedical engineering. I hope to publish 3/4 papers in the upcoming 12 months with my research project.

Is it possible for me to get a Ph.D. scholarship in Australia without Masters degree? What about the living costs and others? Is it possible to get a fully-funded scholarship and living expenses as RA/TA or any other way?

Thanks in advance.

Australia offers scholarships and living stipends. These are very competitive however. In Australia you do not have to have a Masters degree before qualifying for a PhD. You do have to have honours though and would need a 1 or 2.1 to qualify for any form of scholarship.

The reason you don't have to necessarily have a Masters in Australia is that over here 'honours' is a further year, so it qualifies as a postgraduate degree, whereas in universities in the UK for example, I think honours is embedded in your initial 3 year undergrad qualification.

You generally only need the Masters if you did not do the extra honours qualifier. (For example, I used my extra year of funded study to get a teaching qualification on top of my degree rather than the honours year and then did the Masters later as a self funded degree- so as to qualify for a PhD. I still had to achieve a 1 or 2.1 in that to qualify for any form of PhD beyond self funding).

What you need to do is some research-find out what universities you might be interested in and then look up their various scholarships and stipend packages and see if you qualify and apply (apply for several not just one). I don't think you would qualify for the government living and fee scholarships (which are available to Australian students) but universities are keen to get excellent students, so they often offer a range of special scholarships beyond these for outstanding applicants and these may be also open to international applicants.

I would just add one word of caution, Australia makes a great deal of money out of international students, who fully fund themselves, and so competition for an overseas student for both fees scholarship and a living stipend is extremely competitive. However, it may depend on your particular speciality. Biomedical engineering would be an area that may offer some opportunities and if you have published and have a great proposal, that could make the difference.

PS: I've attached a link to a non-commercial site that provides scholarship information for International students and sent this in a PM. It might have some helpful and encouraging information.