Canada: PhD Scholarships at McGill University

Quebec Merit Scholarship for Foreign Students (programme de bourses d'excellence pour étudiants étrangers-PBEE) and DE (FRQNT) / DS (FRQSC) for Foreign Students:

Eligibility summary:

• This competition is open only to foreign candidates who are not Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada. Candidates must not have applied for permanent residency.

• Awards must be activated between April 1 and January 15 of the funding year.

• Doctoral: New or returning doctoral students. Please note that any Doctoral studies already completed at the start date of the award will be deducted from the 3-year maximum award (see details in agency rules).

• Postdoctoral: New or returning postdocs who will have completed their PhD no more than 2 years prior to the agency competition deadline (see details and exceptions in agency rules.)

• Visiting Research Student and Visiting Researcher - V3: Visiting students (pre-Ph.D, option A) will be evaluated separately from visiting scholars (post-Ph.D, option B). Visiting scholars must have completed their Ph.D no more than 5 years prior to the Agency competition deadline.

• Candidates must have achieved an overall first-class average, as determined by the university. At McGill, this means an A-, or 3.70 (or 3.4 for Law).

• Note: Students who will be in a qualifying or "make-up" year of study at the start of award tenure are not eligible to apply.

Candidates from Brazil, India, or Wallonia region will compete in their own citizenship category in each of program levels. Citizens of all other eligible countries will compete in the "Open" category in each of program levels (Doctoral, postdoctoral, short-term research).DE & DS have no special citizenship.

Value:

$20,000/year(up to 3 years)

Further Information:

Trudeau Foundation Scholarships:

Eligibility:In order to be considered for a Trudeau Foundation Scholarship, a student must:
be a foreign national [with a preference for candidates from the developing world  applying to a doctoral program in the social sciences and humanities or registered full-time in the first or second year of such a program at a Canadian university.

Value & Duration:

The annual value is up to $60,000 per Scholar (including an annual travel allowance of $20,000) for up to four years.

Required documents:

1. Application Form
2. Original transcripts from all post secondary studies: McGill transcript ordering information (for this competition, students must also include CEGEP transcripts when applicable).
3. Three letters of reference (one reference must be non-academic in nature). Letters should not exceed 2 pages.

Further Information:

Vanier Fellowship:

Deadline: 26/09/2015

Eligibility:

To be nominated to a Vanier Fellowship, a student must:

• have achieved high academic standings throughout all post-secondary education and hold a first-class GPA (3.7 or 3.5 in Law) in each of the last two (2) years of full-time study (all prior doctoral-level studies, regardless of discipline, will be considered in the evaluation of eligibility. The granting agencies will count two months of part-time study as one month of full-time study); 

• have completed between zero (0) and twenty (20) months of doctoral studies as of May 1, 2015; (in the case of students who are registered in a combined MA/PhD program or a direct-entry doctoral program, or who are accelerated from a master’s program into a doctoral program without obtaining the master’s degree, the agencies will not include the first 12 months of graduate study in the evaluation of eligibility.)

• and have demonstrated evidence of leadership;

• not have already received a doctoral-level scholarship or fellowship from CIHR, NSERC or SSHRC to undertake or complete a doctoral degree.

Value & Duration:

$50,000/yr for 3 years

All nominated Vanier applicants apply through McGill University. No direct applications are accepted by the agency.

Further Information:

Industrial Innovation Scholarship (Bourses en milieu de pratique):

Deadline: Three (3) months prior to the proposed start of the award.

Eligibility:

FRQNT-NSERC is open to Canadian citizens, Permanent Residents, and international students, while FRQSC-SSHRC is open only to Canadians and Permanent Residents.

Value & Duration:

min. $27,000/yr for 3 yrs

For IIS FRQNT-NSERC:

All applications and documents are by hard-copy submission to Service Point.  Clearly label documents/packages "GPS Graduate Funding".

For IIS FRQSC-SSHRC:

All applications are made direct to the agency.

Further Information: