INTERNAL deadline – 4:00 pm, Wednesday, January 31, 2018

If you intend on applying for this Fellowship, please inform Lia (lfs.gradapp@ubc.ca) by Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Aboriginal Graduate Fellowships

The University of British Columbia offers multi-year fellowships to Master’s and doctoral Aboriginal students. Award winners are selected on the basis of academic merit through an annual competition, administered by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies in consultation with the First Nations House of Learning. Approximately a dozen new fellowships are offered each year.

Each fellowship provides a stipend of $18,200 per year for doctoral students or a stipend of $16,175 per year for Master’s students. Additionally, AGF recipients are eligible to receive tuition funding. Tuition funding will not exceed the current value of the standard doctoral or Master’s degree tuition fees. Applicants for Master’s funding will receive fellowship funding until the end of their second year of Master’s studies; applicants for doctoral funding will receive fellowship funding for four years or until the end of their fifth year of doctoral studies, whichever comes first. In all cases, continued fellowship support is conditional on satisfactory academic progress. Recipients of Master’s fellowship funding must re-apply to be considered for doctoral funding.

All Aboriginal students are eligible to apply, but priority is given to Aboriginal students whose traditional territory falls, at least in part, within Canada. This includes Canadian First Nations, Métis or Inuit students and may include Aboriginal students from Alaska and the northern states of the USA. The University may request further information to confirm Aboriginal eligibility.

Application and nomination details: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/aboriginal-graduate-fellowships 

APPLICATION Materials:

• Applicants must submit the following materials to their graduate program at UBC. Applications may not be submitted directly to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.
• Completed Aboriginal Graduate Fellowship application.
• Outline of Proposed Research (see AGF application instructions for details)
• Academic records for all university-level studies (including studies undertaken but not completed) up to December 31, 2017.
  • Current students: for institutions other than UBC, only official transcripts will be accepted. These may be original or certified true copies provided by the applicant’s graduate program.
  • Applicants for 2018/19 academic year: unofficial transcripts will be accepted only if they were submitted with the application for admission.
  • UBC transcripts for all students with UBC grades: the applicant’s “Academic History” printed from the SISC by the applicant’s graduate program will be accepted.
  • Please note that students must request certified true copies of transcripts from their graduate program, not from the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.
• Two completed Aboriginal Graduate Fellowship reference forms. Only reference forms signed by the person providing the reference are acceptable; original, faxed, and scanned copies sent by e-mail directly to the student’s graduate program are acceptable.
• Canadian Common CV – https://ccv-cvc.ca/indexresearcher-eng.frm