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 |
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Governor General's Gold Medal | Friday, March 15 2024 at 4:00pm PT | Gold medals are awarded to the graduating students with the most outstanding academic records in a doctoral degree and in a Master's degree with thesis. |
China Scholarship Council Doctoral Scholarships | March 29, 2024 | The China Scholarship Council (CSC) provides scholarships to Chinese students for doctoral and postdoctoral studies abroad, across a wide range of disciplines. |
Walter C. Sumner Memorial Fellowship | March 29, 2024 at 4:00PM PT | The Walter C. Sumner Memorial Fellowships support Canadian citizens engaged in doctoral studies in Chemistry, Physics, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science. |
Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities | April 12, 2024 at 4:00PM PT | Named in honor of the first president of the Council of Graduate Schools and first presented in 1972, this award is made annually to a scholar-teacher in the humanities. The recipient must be teaching in a North American university, have earned a doctorate within 7 years of the award date, and have written a book of scholarly importance. Subjects fields are selected annually. |
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. |
Graduate Covid Program Delay Tuition Award | Likely in May 2024 | Graduate Covid Program Delay Tuition Awards are provided to support graduate students whose academic and/or research progress was delayed by disruptions due to the Covid-19 pandemic. |
Graduate Research Stipend | Ongoing | To support the research undertaken by students who have been unable to travel to Canada due to COVID-19 restrictions, a Graduate Research Stipend (GRS) distribution process is being made available to allow supervisors to provide funding to these graduate students. |
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. |
Andrew Nord Fellowships in Rheumatology | Likely in May 2024 | |
Bullitt Prize | June 1, 2024 | The Bullitt Prize is a program to identify and support environmentally focused leaders in the Pacific Northwest. Applicants must be studying and demonstrate a commitment to subjects that are closely aligned with the Prize’s mission to safeguard the natural environment by promoting responsible human activities and sustainable communities in the Pacific Northwest. |
CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award | Likely in June 2024 | These awards are made to individuals who have completed PhD dissertations representing original work that makes an unusually significant contribution to the discipline. |
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. |
Canada Graduate Scholarship Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement | Likely in May 2024 | The Canada Graduate Scholarship Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements (CGS-MSFSS) Program supports Canadian graduate students pursuing research experiences at institutions outside of Canada. |
Affiliated Fellowships Doctoral Program | Likely in September 2024 | The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies offers Affiliated Fellowships each year to current and prospective full-time UBC graduate students regardless of citizenship or visa status. |
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. |
International Tuition Award | Likely in December 2024 | The International Tuition Award assists international graduate students with their tuition fees if they are registered full-time in research-oriented master’s and doctoral programs. |
Graduate Support Initiative (GSI) Awards | Likely in December 2024 | The Graduate Support Initiative (GSI) is a program for funding graduate students through entrance scholarships, multi-year funding packages, tuition awards and scholarship top-ups. |