Canadian Government Scholarships
PhD Degree
Deadline: before 2 Nov 2016 (yearly)
Study in: Canada
Course starts: May/Sept 2017
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.