IMPORTANT: These deadlines are specific to graduate students. There are additional deadlines in the UBC Academic Calendar that apply to all students.
Application deadlines can be found in the prospective student section as well as in each degree program profile.
Name |
Deadline | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship | Likely in November 2024 | Zonta International’s Amelia Earhart Fellowships memorialize famed air pioneer and Zontian, Amelia Earhart, who disappeared over the Pacific in 1937. By remembering Amelia Earhart through this fellowship, Zonta International encourages and supports women to expand their horizons by pursuing degrees and careers in aerospace-related sciences or aerospace-related engineering. |
| Wounded Warriors Doctoral Scholarship in Military and Veteran Health Research | Likely in September 2024 | The Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research (CIMVHR) and Wounded Warriors Canada (WWC) offer a two-year scholarship annually to a PhD student who demonstrates excellence in research issues relevant to military members, Veterans and families while also exhibiting significant potential for a high impact research career. |
| WorkSafeBC Research Training Awards | Likely in February 2025 | WorkSafeBC Research Training Awards are intended to enable highly qualified Masters and PhD students to undertake full-time research training with a focus on preventing and/or reducing occupational illness, injury, and disability in British Columbia. |
| Walter C. Sumner Memorial Fellowship | Likely in March 2025 | The Walter C. Sumner Memorial Fellowships support Canadian citizens engaged in doctoral studies in Chemistry, Physics, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science. |
| Wall Awards | April 30, 2024 at 4:00PM PT | Graduate awards have been made available through the Peter Wall Legacy Fund, an endowment established by Peter Wall, for for 2nd and 3rd year Master's students and 5th and 6th year PhD candidates studying sustainable development and environmental protection of British Columbia. |
| Vanier Scholarship | Likely in August 2024 | The Vanier CGS Program offers funding of $50,000 per year for up to three years to Canadian or international doctoral students. |
| Vancouver Korean-Canadian Scholarship Foundation Scholarship | Likely in May 2024 | The Vancouver Korean-Canadian Scholarship Foundation (VKCSF) is a charitable organization dedicated to providing scholarships to qualified students with Korean heritage or to those pursuing academic studies related to Korea. VKCSF encourages students to contribute to the well-being and prosperity of the Korean-Canadian community and the wider Canadian society. |
| UBC Public Scholars Award | 12 May 2024 | This award is intended to build connections, community, and capacity for doctoral students who are interested in explicitly linking their doctoral work to an arena of public benefit and integrating broader and more career-relevant forms of scholarship into their doctoral education process. |
| UBC Dissertation Prize | Likely in March 2025 | Three prizes of $1,000 each have been made available annually by the University of British Columbia for students whose doctoral dissertations are of exceptional quality and originality, and make a significant contribution to their academic field. |
| Tyler Lewis Clean Energy Research Foundation Grant | Likely in October 2024 | Tyler Lewis Clean Energy Research Foundation Grant, Clean Energy, Sustainability, Environmental research |
| Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship | Likely in December 2024 | Trudeau Scholarships are awarded each year to support highly gifted and actively engaged doctoral students pursuing research in one or more of the four themes: Human Rights and Dignity, Responsible Citizenship, Canada in the World and People and their Natural Environment. |
| Transdisciplinary Understanding and Training on Research - Primary Health Care (TUTOR-PHC) | Likely in November 2024 | Transdisciplinary Understanding and Training on Research - Primary Health Care (TUTOR-PHC) is a one-year national interdisciplinary training program funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF) with representation from the disciplines of Family Medicine, Nursing, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology and Education. This training program is aimed at students and their supervisors from Canadian universities who are interested in interdisciplinary primary health care research. Trainees will have a primary Mentor who will offer leadership and guidance to participants until they are established primary health care researchers. |
| The Kathryn Huget Leadership Award | June 30, 2024 | The Kathryn Huget Leadership Award is available for students studying at the Master’s or PhD level, preferably in the areas of organizational behaviour, business administration, business and commerce, sociology, or psychology. Awarded to any individual, with preference given to female students currently in leadership roles, whose focus is to improve the business workplace for women. |
| The International Development and Diplomacy Internship Programme | Likely in March 2025 | This internship programme is offered by United Nations Association in Canada’s (UNA-Canada) International Development & Diplomacy Internship Programme (IDDIP) to university graduates from many disciplines including: international affairs (relations), peacekeeping and peace building, political science, economics, history, women’s studies, public policy, geography, environmental studies, anthropology, sociology, law, the sciences, engineering, languages, etc.who demonstrate that they have an active interest in the work of the United Nations and UN-related issues. |
| The ENTELLIGENCE Young Investigator Program | Likely in March 2025 | The ENTELLIGENCE program provides opportunities for individual young investigators to promote quality medical care and enhance patients' lives by supporting research (basic science, translational and clinical research) in the area of pulmonary hypertension (PH) related to expanding our knowledge of the pathways involved in pulmonary vascular pathobiology and ultimately, to improve treatment for patients with pulmonary hypertension. |
| TELUS Graduate Fellowship on Telecommunications Policy | Likely in January 2025 | The Fellowship will support graduate students who wish to undertake independent, innovative research on issues related to telecommunications policy. |
| Strengthening Mothers through Perinatal Research Award | Likely in December 2024 | A $1,650 award is offered for graduate students pursuing research into woman-centered, holistic and physiologic maternity care |
| SSHRC Talent Award | Likely in February 2025 | The SSHRC Talent Award recognizes outstanding achievement by a current SSHRC doctoral or postdoctoral fellowship or scholarship holder. The Talent Award is given to an individual who maintains academic excellence, has a talent for research and knowledge mobilization and has demonstrated clear potential to be a future leader within and/or outside the academic sector. One Talent Award will be awarded by SSHRC from the nominations submitted by Canadian universities. |
| SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships | Likely in September 2024 | SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships provide financial support to outstanding students pursuing doctoral studies in the social sciences or humanities. |
| SRK Graduate Scholarship | Likely in May 2024 | SRK Consulting (Canada) Inc. offers a graduate scholarship with the intent to assist students undertaking graduate studies in mining industry related areas. |
| Spring Graduate Awards Competition | Likely in May 2024 | A number of university awards for the upcoming academic year are available to current and incoming graduate students. |
| Soroptimist Foundation of Canada Grants for Women Graduate Students | Likely in January 2025 | The Soroptimist Foundation of Canada annually offers several $8,500 grants to female graduate students in Canada to assist them with university studies which will qualify them for careers which will improve the quality of women's lives. |
| Simons Award in Nuclear Disarmament and Global Security | Likely in October 2024 | The Liu Institute for Global Issues in the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs offers this annual award to UBC students intending to undertake research on topics related to nuclear disarmament and global security. |
| SERB-UBC Scholarship | On hold | This award, a collaboration between The Science and Engineering Research Board, India (SERB) and UBC, provides up to 5 scholarships per year to PHD candidates in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. It includes a monthly living allowance of USD 2,000 plus funding by UBC covering the tuition costs. |
| Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada (SWAAC) Graduate Student Award of Merit | Likely November 2024 | Awards of $3,500 each will be awarded women graduate students who have demonstrated leadership while maintaining exemplary academic records. UBC may nominate one student to the 2020 Western Provinces competition. |
| Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists | Likely in July 2024 | The prize is awarded annually to one young scientist for outstanding life science research for which he/she was awarded a doctoral degree in the previous two years. The topic of the entrant's thesis research must be in one of the following categories: Cell and Molecular Biology, Genomics and Proteomics, Ecology and Environment, Translational Medicine. |
| Scholarships for Exchange Students | Likely in March 2025 | Exchange scholarships are available to students from Caribbean, Asia-Pacific, Africa, South & Central America, Mexico, Caribbean, and Chile to undertake research or study at UBC for a period of 4 to 6 months. |
| Schmidt Science Fellowships | April 19, 2024 at 4:00PM PT | The Schmidt Science Fellows program aims to provide the next generation of scientific leaders and innovators with an exceptional opportunity. Fellows receive a stipend of $100,000 per year and are supported to pursue a one to two year postdoctoral placement at a world-leading laboratory anywhere in the world in a disciplinary pivot from their PhD. |
| Royal Canadian Legion Masters Scholarship in Veteran Health Research | Likely in June 2024 | The Royal Canadian Legion offers an annual entrance scholarship of $30,000 ($15,000/year for 2 years) to a Master’s level student specializing in research related to Veterans and their families. |
| Ross C. Purse Doctoral Fellowship | Likely in June 2024 | The Ross C. Purse Doctoral Fellowship encourages and supports theoretical and practical research and studies at the doctoral level in the field of vision loss in Canada. |
| Robert Caton and David Bates Scholarships | Likely in November 2024 | Funding is available through the Robert Caton and David Bates Scholarships to support graduate level students with high ideals, demonstrated interest in studies relating to atmospheric sciences, air quality and health or policy and specific goals leading to future work in that field. |
| Robert Bertram Doctoral Research Awards | May 24, 2024 | The Robert Bertram Doctoral Research Awards have been established to promote Canadian-based research on corporate governance and build Canada’s corporate governance research capacity by encouraging the next generation of young scholars. |
| Rio Tinto Graduate Scholarship Program | Likely in June 2024 | Rio Tinto offers an $18,000 research scholarship for a UBC graduate student in a field of pure or applied science related to Rio Tinto's activities. |
| Rick Hansen Man In Motion Fellowship | Likely in May 2024 | The Rick Hansen Fellowships are awarded to UBC students with a physical disability. |
| Rhodes Scholarships (China Constituency) | Likely in October 2024 | The Rhodes Scholarship is the oldest (first awarded in 1902) and perhaps most prestigious international scholarship programme, enabling outstanding young people from around the world to study at the University of Oxford. |
| rare Scholarship in Graduate Research | Likely in April 2025 | The rare Charitable Research Reserve has partnered with the Ages Foundation Fund to financially assist students in pursuit of higher education. The Ages Foundation Research Fellowship & Bursaries program will allow students to study in a relatively undisturbed, yet highly accessible site in Waterloo Region. |
| Queen Elizabeth Scholars | Monday 6 May 2024 | |
| Pursuit Award | Likely in April 2024 | The Pursuit Awards recognize PhD students from across the globe for their outstanding contributions to and achievements in childhood disability research. The focus of the student/graduate's research must be in the area of pediatric disability. |
| President's Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award | Ongoing | All eligible PhD students will automatically see this award applied against their student account. |
| PEO Scholar Award | Likely in November 2024 | The P.E.O. Scholar Awards (PSA) program was established in 1991 to provide substantial merit-based awards for women of the United States and Canada who are pursuing a doctoral level degree at an accredited college or university. |
| PEO International Peace Scholarship | Likely in December 2024 | The International Peace Scholarship Fund is a program which provides scholarships for selected women from other countries for graduate study in the United States and Canada. |
| Parliamentary Internship Programme | Likely in January 2025 | The Parliamentary Internship Programme provides a 10-month internship with Members of Parliament in Ottawa. |
| Organization of American States (OAS) Fellowships Programs | Likely in May 2024 | Academic scholarships are awarded to undertake graduate studies that lead to a degree (Master’s or Ph.D.) and/or graduate research at a university or higher learning institution in an OAS Member State. The competition is open to students in all disciplines (natural sciences, engineering, humanities, social sciences and arts). Scholarships are not offered for studies in the medical sciences and the learning of new languages. |
| NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships | Likely in September 2024 | The NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships – Doctoral (PGS D) program provides financial support to high-calibre scholars who are engaged in an eligible doctoral program in the natural sciences or engineering. |
| NSERC Foreign Study Supplements in Taiwan | Likely in February 2025 | Foreign Study Supplements in Taiwan provide graduate students in the natural sciences and engineering with first-hand research experience in an international setting. Award supports travel to Taiwan for eight weeks this summer and work with researchers on projects related to their research studies in Canada while receiving Mandarin training at National Tsing Hua University. |
| NSERC CREATE | Ongoing | A number of active NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience Programs are available at UBC. Funding is available to support the training of teams of highly qualified students and postdoctoral fellows from Canada and abroad. |
| Nominations for External Examiner form (Spring 2024 Graduation) | Friday, 24 November 2023 | |
| Nominations for External Examiner form (Spring 2023 Graduation) | Friday, 25 November 2022 | |
| Nominations for External Examiner form (Fall 2024 Graduation) | Friday, 31 May 2024 |
First of four deadlines for Fall 2024 Graduation. Last day for Supervisors to submit Nominations for External Examiner form to the Faculty of Graduate Studies for Fall 2024 Graduation. |
| Nominations for External Examiner form (Fall 2023 Graduation) | Friday, 26 May 2023 |
First of four deadlines for Fall 2023 Graduation. Last day for Supervisors to submit Nominations for External Examiner form to the Faculty of Graduate Studies for Fall 2023 Graduation. |