VANIER CANADA GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS PROGRAM

Description

The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) program was created to attract and retain world-class doctoral students and to establish Canada as a global centre of excellence in research and higher learning. The program supports students who demonstrate both leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies in the social sciences and/or humanities, natural sciences and/or engineering and health.

Candidates must be nominated by the university at which they want to study. Candidates cannot apply directly to the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) program.


Scholarship

It is worth $50,000 per year for three years and is available to both Canadian and international PhD students studying at Canadian universities.


Eligibility

To be considered for a Vanier CGS, you must:

   - Be nominated by only one Canadian university, which must have received a Vanier CGS allocation;
   - Be pursuing your first doctoral degree (or combined MA/PhD or MD/PhD). Note that only the PhD portion of a combined degree is eligible
     for funding;
   - Intend to pursue, in the summer semester or the academic year following the announcement of results, full-time doctoral (or combined
     MA/PhD or MD/PhD) studies and research at the nominating university; Note that only the PhD portion of a combined degree is eligible
     for funding;
   - Have completed no more than 20 months of doctoral studies as of May 1, 2015;
   - Have achieved a first-class average, as determined by your university, in each of the last two years of full-time study or equivalent.
     Candidates are encouraged to contact the university for its definition of a first-class average; and
   - Not have already received a doctoral-level scholarship or fellowship from CIHR, NSERC or SSHRC to undertake or complete a doctoral
     degree.


Deadline: 05 November 2014

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