Vandals have attacked the design school that gave Prime Minister Tony Abbott's daughter a $60,000 scholarship.

Dozens of red stickers saying "bullshit" were spread across the glass door and windows of the Whitehouse Institute of Design in Surry Hills overnight.

Vandals put stickers over the doors and windows of the Whitehouse Institute of Design in Surry Hills.

The private college came under fire after it was revealed it had awarded Frances Abbott a rare "chairman's scholarship" to cover the cost of her bachelor of design course.

Institute chairman Les Taylor is a Liberal Party donor and a long-time friend of Mr Abbott.