Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS)

Canadian Government Scholarships

PhD Degree

Deadline: before 2 Nov 2016 (yearly)
Study in: Canada
Course starts: May/Sept 2017

Last updated: 27 Jun 2016

Brief description: The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) was formed to create a center of attention and preserve world-class doctoral students and to establish Canada as a global centre of brilliance in research and higher learning.  The scholarships are towards a doctoral degree (or combined MA/PhD or MD/PhD).

Host Institution(s): Canadian Universities with Vanier CGS allocation. Without exemption, the Vanier CGS is reasonable only at the suitable Canadian institution that submitted the nomination.

Level/Field(s) of study: PhD programmes (or combined MA/PhD or MD/PhD) in health research; natural sciences and/or engineering research; and social sciences and/or humanities research

Number of Scholarships: Up to 167 scholarships are honored yearly

Target group: Canadian citizens, permanent residents of Canada and foreign citizens are suitable to be nominated for a Vanier CGS.

Scholarship value/duration: The scholarships is worth $50,000 apiece year for 3 years.

Eligibility: To be measured 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 (including joint undergraduate/graduate research program such as: MD/PhD, DVM/PhD, JD/PhD – if it has a established and considerable research component). Note that only the PhD portion of a combined degree is suitable for funding;

•  propose to pursue, in the summer semester or the academic year following the statement 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 suitable for funding;

•  have completed no more than 20 months of doctoral studies as of May 1, 2017;

•  have achieved a first-class average, as determined by your university, in every of the last 2 years of full-time study or equivalent. Applicants are confident 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.

Application instructions: Applicants must be nominated by a Canadian Institution with a quota at which they want to study. Applicants cannot submit an application directly to the Vanier CGS program.   

Applications are initiated in one of 2 ways. Either the student informs the faculty of graduate studies at the selected institution of their intent to submit an application to the Vanier CGS program OR the institution initiates the nomination process by contacting the desired applicant.

Applications are organized by the student and submitted to the nominating institution by their internal closing date using the Research Net application system.  The nominating institution then forwards recommended nominations to the Vanier-Banting Secretariat (the Secretariat) by2 November 2016.

It is essential to browse the authorized website (link found below) to access the application form and to know the complete information on how to submit an application for this scholarship.

Website: Authorized Scholarship Website:  http://www.vanier.gc.ca/en/home-accueil.html