$50,000 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships 2024

The 2023–2024 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships, which are completely financed and intended for outstanding postgraduate students worldwide, are now accepting applications. Three equally weighted selection criteria—Academic Excellence, Research Potential, and Leadership—are taken into account when determining the recipient of the fellowship, which has a three-year value of $50,000 per awardee during doctorate study.

In order to improve Canada’s capacity to draw and keep top-tier Ph.D. students and position the country as a global hub of excellence in research and higher education, the Canadian government introduced the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) program in 2008. Graduate students in the social and humanities, natural sciences, engineering, and/or medicine who are Vanier Scholars have leadership qualities and a high level of academic success.

Details of the Vanier Graduate Scholarship in Canada

• The Canadian government is the scholarship’s sponsor.
• Scholarships that are fully funded
• Universities in Canada are the host institution(s).
• $50,000 over three years is the value of the scholarship.
• Annual Awards: Up to 166 scholarships are given out.
• Graduate-level (doctoral) studies
• All Nationalities are Accepted as Eligible

Criteria for selection and eligibility:

The Canadian Government’s Selection Criteria Upon which are the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships awarded?

• First, academic prowess
• Research Opportunities
• Potential and demonstrated leadership ability

Citizenship:

• Residents of Canada
• Permanent Canadian residents
• Foreign nationals

Research topics:

• Medical investigation
• Engineering and/or natural science research
• Research in the humanities and social sciences

When applying for a Vanier CGS, you must:

• be submitted by just one Canadian institution, and that school must have been awarded a Vanier CGS quotaFootnote1;
• be working on your first doctoral degree (including dual programs such as MD/Ph.D., DVM/Ph.D., or JD/Ph.D., MBA/Ph.D. – if it includes a sufficient and proven research component);
• intend to pursue doctoral (or joint graduate research programs, such as MD/Ph.D., DVM/Ph.D., JD/PhD, MBA/PhD) studies and research at the nominating institution full-time in the summer semester or the academic year after the announcement of results. For joint graduate research programs, only the Ph.D. portion of the program is eligible for funding.
• As of May 1, 2024, have no more than 20 months of full-time Ph.D. study under your belt;
• After earning a master’s degree, the doctoral program would start. The Ph.D. enrolment date is used to calculate the number of completed months of study.

Concerning Ph.D Candidates

• by May 1, 2024, having finished no more than 32 months of full-time study in your Ph.D. program (i.e., combined graduate research program, straight from bachelor’s, previously enrolled without acquiring master’s degree);
• enrolling in a dual-degree graduate research program, such as an MD/Ph.D., MA/Ph.D., MS/PhD, or DVM/PhD. Regardless of whether they had been enrolled in a master’s program in the past, candidates in this category are eligible for the 32-month window:
• Beginning on the day an applicant is formally registered in the joint graduate program, the number of months of study is determined. The master’s registration date will be this (for MA/PhD or MS/PhD).
• without having first registered in another graduate school, transferred directly from a bachelor’s to a Ph.D. program;
• The Ph.D. enrolment date is used to calculate the number of completed months of study.
• started a Ph.D. program after beginning a master’s program in the past but not finishing it.
• The number of months of study completed is determined starting with the initial master’s enrollment date.
• having completed your last two years of full-time study or the equivalent with a first-class average, as established by your institution. The institution’s concept of a first-class average is available upon request by candidates, and
• Note: Institutions may accept Vanier CGS applications from those who have not earned a first-class average, at their discretion; contact your preferred host institutions to find out how they treat this eligibility condition.
• the applicant cannot already be enrolled in or have completed a Ph.D. program under the auspices of CIHR, NSERC, or SSHRC.
• Please be advised that only the Ph.D. component of a combined program qualifies for funding.

Multiple applications

Eligible candidates may apply to both the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships program and other agency-specific doctoral-level scholarship/fellowships programs (whether to the same or a different federal granting agency) in the same academic year, provided that the research proposed in each application falls within the mandate of the federal granting agency to which the application is submitted. For more information, please refer to Identify area of research.

Note: Since eligibility, evaluation criteria, and competition deadlines are different; applications submitted to Vanier CGS are not considered in agency-specific doctoral award competitions. You must apply to each program individually.

Candidates who are successful in both competitions will have to choose which award to accept.

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Procedures for Applications

How-to-Apply:

The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships 2023/24 applicants who are interested should be aware that most scholarships will have a nomination process. A Canadian institution must nominate candidates if it has a quota for hosting Vanier scholars, which is a cap on the total number of applications that can be submitted. Only the institution where they wish to study should nominate candidates. Inquiring candidates ought to: look up nomination procedures

Calendars for applications:

From July to November 2023, candidates will look for a nominating institution, and prepare, and submit their application materials.

Internal Deadline: The application deadline should be submitted to the institution submitting the nomination. For a specific date, speak with the nominated institution.

Institutional nominations for the Vanier CGS program must be received by November 1, 2023, at midnight Eastern Standard Time.

Review and assessment of nominations from November 2023 to March 2024.

Expected notification of results in early April 2024. When the findings are made accessible on ResearchNet, nominees will be notified by email.

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