What is the Out of Town Peer Mentor Program?

It's about experienced students becoming a 'mentor' to new students from out of town to help them settle in. It's about passing on knowledge and ideas and extending a helping hand to the next generation of first years or transferring students. It's all about starting at UNSW.

The program runs in the first session of each year and aims to help first year students in their transition to studying at UNSW, and also their transition to living in Sydney.

The program has been running for a number of years and comprises a network of students who have left their hometown outside the Sydney metropolitan area to study at UNSW. If you are a starting student, you will receive an invitation from us before you enrol asking you to become a mentee in the program. If you decide to join you get to meet new friends and pick up handy hints from older students who've been there and done that!

Become a Peer Mentor!

If you are an existing UNSW student and you hail from a regional or city area outside of metropolitan Sydney, you could become a peer mentor.
As a mentor you will be given a small group of mentees (first year students) to guide and facilitate through the first 8 weeks of session. You'll receive lots of resources and help along the way and develop a leadership role within the UNSW community. You receive free training in February and a certificate to include in your CV.

We start recruiting mentors around the middle of Session 2 each year, so if you'd like to join, simply pick up an application from at the Counselling Service, pick up one from our website, enrol online here, or send an email or call 9385 5418.

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