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Scholarships and Funding Opportunities

Your supervisor(s) does their best to ensure that all MItHRIL members are sufficiently funded, and that funding levels are fair. However, applying for your own external funding is always a good idea, since this can bring financial and other (prestige) benefits to both you and to our research group. Speak with Debie Fraser (ECE Graduate Program Assistant) to see if there are any internal Queen's deadlines, support, or procedures.

Opportunities

  • Check out the Awards & Scholarships page on the Queen's SGS website.
  • Check out the FEAS Research & Graduate Studies webpage.
  • The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) is the place to find many graduate (and undergraduate) scholarship opportunities. Receiving an NSERC scholarship is prestigious, is a great item to have on your CV, and will give you some well-deserved funds.
  • The Queen's Ontario Graduate Scholarships (OGS) are also worth applying for at the same time as you apply for NSERC. You can't hold both, but if you are declined for NSERC you may still get OGS.
  • Check out the Vector Scholarship in AI.

Deadlines

Migration note: the amounts, eligibility criteria, and deadlines below are copied verbatim from the source page and reference specific years (e.g., "by May 1, 2024"). Confirm current figures against NSERC, OGS, and Vanier program pages before publishing, since these are updated annually.

Masters

Canada Graduate Scholarships – Master's (CGS M) Amount: $17,500 for 12 months, non-renewable. Eligibility: be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident of Canada, or a Protected Person under subsection 95(2) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Canada) as of the application deadline date; have completed, as of December 31 of the year of application, either between 0 and 12 months of full-time studies in the program for which you are requesting funding (a master's program; a master's program transitioning to an eligible doctoral program with no master's degree conferred, i.e. fast-track; or a master's program whose requirements will be completed before the end of the award, allowing it to continue into an eligible doctoral program), or between 4 and 12 months of full-time study in an eligible master's program whose degree requirements will be completed before activation of the award at that same institution, allowing activation during the first 12 months of the subsequent doctoral program. Deadline: usually December 1 of each year.

Ontario Graduate Scholarship Amount: $15,000 for one academic year, non-renewable. Eligibility: Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada; enrolled in an eligible post-secondary institution in Ontario; enrolled full-time in an eligible graduate program. Visa students studying in Ontario under a temporary resident visa/study permit are eligible for a separate allotment of visa student awards, with a separate competition. Deadline: applications open in December of each year; deadline to be set by ECE.

PhD

Canada Graduate Scholarships – Doctoral (CGS-D) Amount: $35,000 per year for 36 months. Eligibility: be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident of Canada, or a Protected Person under subsection 95(2) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Canada) as of the application deadline; and, depending on your path into the PhD (direct entry from bachelor's, joint professional/PhD program such as MD/PhD, JD/PhD, DVM/PhD, or entry after a master's), have completed no more than 24 or 36 months of full-time study in your doctoral program by December 31 of the calendar year of application, per the specific criteria for each path (direct-entry applicants must be enrolled in their doctoral program at time of application). Deadline: usually September of each year.

Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship Amount: $50,000 per year for three years during doctoral studies. Eligibility: Canadian citizens, permanent residents of Canada, and foreign citizens are eligible to be nominated for a Vanier CGS. To be considered, you must be nominated by only one Canadian institution holding a Vanier CGS quota; be pursuing your first doctoral degree (including a joint program such as MD/PhD, DVM/PhD, JD/PhD, or MBA/PhD with a demonstrated and significant research component); intend to pursue full-time doctoral studies and research at the nominating institution in the summer semester or academic year following the announcement of results; and meet program-specific limits on months of full-time study already completed in your doctoral program (20 or 32 months as of May 1, depending on your path into the program). You must also have achieved a first-class average, as determined by your institution, in each of the last two years of full-time study or equivalent, and cannot have already received a doctoral-level scholarship or fellowship from CIHR, NSERC, or SSHRC to undertake or complete a doctoral program. Only the PhD portion of a joint program is eligible for funding. Deadline: fall of each year.