Internal Deadline: Friday, May 5th 2023.
Please notify us about your attention of applying (as we need to prepare transcripts) by April 24, 2023.

Spring Graduate Awards Competition

A number of university awards for the upcoming academic year are available to current and incoming graduate students.  The maximum value of funding that can be offered to a student is $16,000, or $22,000 for the #6495 Andrew Nord Fellowships in Rheumatology.  Applicants will apply via their graduate programs with a single application that may be considered for as many of the Spring Graduate Awards as they are eligible for, taking note of the following important considerations:

• Eligibility: To be eligible to receive funding, applicants must meet both the overall eligibility requirements as outlined on the award webpage (ex. months of study) and all of the eligibility requirements for each individual Spring Graduate Award they apply for. Applicants will not be considered for an award if they do not clearly meet the criteria for the award.
  Spring Graduate Awards Competition – Graduate School – University of British Columbia – Vancouver – Canada (ubc.ca)
• Selection:   While award recipients will be selected based on the evaluation criteria, priority will be given to eligible candidates who do not hold significant scholarship funding (i.e., $16,000 or higher) for the 2023/2024 academic year (September 2023 to August 2024).  If a student is offered Spring Awards funding, and later receives other scholarship funding of $16,000 or higher for the same period, the Spring Awards funding offer would normally be rescinded.
  • Exception: Some of the Spring Graduate Awards have very niche award descriptions (eligibility requirements).  For example, the #6362 award ‘James and Setsuko Thurlow Scholarship in Peace and Disarmament Studies’.  If a Spring Graduate Award receives a very low number of eligible applications, it may be awarded to a student who already has significant scholarship funding.

 

A complete application consists of:

• Completed Application Form – PART 1
• Completed Application Form – PART 2
• Canadian CCV – CGS-Master’s version
• Up-to-date, complete transcripts for all undergraduate and graduate studies (including studies undertaken but not completed) up to December 31, 2022. Official transcripts are preferred. Unofficial transcripts will be accepted in cases where applicants were not able to obtain an official transcript in time for the deadline. If an applicant is providing an unofficial transcript, it must still be authentic, complete and up to date.
• One recommendation letter/form. (In some cases, a reference letter submitted for a previous scholarship competition may be used; see the application instructionsfor details.)

Deadline for graduate program nominations to G+PS: 4:00 pm PT on May 22, 2023

For more information, such as the complete eligibility requirements and application materials, please refer to our webpage: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/spring-graduate-awards-competition.

The results of this competition will be announced in mid-August.