Ontario Graduate Scholarships at Brock University 2026

The Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) program encourages excellence in graduate studies at the master’s and doctoral levels. The value of an OGS award for one year is $15,000, $5,000 per term. Students may receive the award for two terms ($10,000) or three terms ($15,000), the majority of the scholarships will be awarded for three terms. One-term awards are not granted.
Students must apply for the award at the university where they plan to attend graduate studies. The award is not transferable from University to University. This means that all undergraduate and graduate students wishing to apply for OGS, who plan to study at the graduate level at Brock, must apply and submit their OGS application to Brock.

Table of Content

• Summary
• Benefits
• Requirements
• Interview Process
• Application Deadline
• How To Apply

Summary

• Application DeadlineDecember 15, 2025
• Value$15,000
• Study LevelMasters , Undergraduate
• SponsorBrock University
• City to studySaint Catharines
• School to studyBrock University
• Eligible CountryAll Countries

Benefits

The value of an OGS award for one year is $15,000, $5,000 per term

Requirements

In order to be considered for an OGS, students must be:

• Students studying in Ontario under a study permit or visa.
• Enrolled in or applying for admission to a research-based graduate program on a full-time basis at Brock at the time of holding the award.
• Taking an eligible program on a full time basis.
• Students cannot hold the award beyond their program funding window. Master’s and PhD applicants must have a minimum of two (2) terms remaining within their defined length of their graduate program at the time the award is disbursed.

An eligible program is defined as a full-time program of study of two or three terms at an eligible institution leading to a graduate degree.

Find official Provincial guidelines here.

Your application must include a copy of all up-to-date official transcripts including a current transcript (even if you don’t have grades from this semester). Each transcript should include one copy of the legend.

For Brock students, you can order them through MyCreds.
Send them to yourself; Open the file and download (or print) to remove password protection.

Visa Students:
International students who are studying in Ontario under a temporary resident visa – student study permit, under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Canada) are eligible for the allotted visa student awards (Brock’s allocation is 2).

Minimum Academic Requirements:
The applicant must, at minimum, meet the following OGS academic requirements:

• students must have an overall average of at least A- (80%) in each of the last two completed years of study (full-time equivalent).

Eligibility Conditions:
Master’s students can receive the scholarship for a maximum of two years and doctoral students for a maximum of four years, subject to a lifetime maximum of six years per student.

In addition, a lifetime maximum of six (6) years of government-funded student awards must have not have been exceeded by the applicant. Awards under the following programs will be counted toward this lifetime maximum:

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship Program (OGS)
• Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEIIGSST)
• Ontario Trillium Scholarships (OTS)
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
• Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)

Applicants cannot hold an OGS scholarship and an award from any of the following programs, concurrently:

• Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEIIGSST)
• Ontario Trillium Scholarships (OTS)
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
• Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)

Recipients must remain enrolled as a full-time student in an eligible program. Recipients who withdraw, transfer to part-time status, or fail to complete the term, will be required to repay the award.

OSAP Restrictions

Students who have an OSAP restriction on their file are ineligible from receiving their scholarship until the restriction has been cleared. At the time of disbursement, if the Faculty of Graduate Studies finds a restriction on the student’s file, the student will be contacted by the Faculty of Graduate Studies and advised of a deadline by which they must clear the restriction or forfeit their award.

Selection Process

Academic Excellence 50%
Research Potential 30%
Communications, Interpersonal and Leadership Abilities 20%

Application Deadline

December 15, 2025

How To Apply

Are you qualified and interested in this opportunity? Kindly go to Brock University on brocku.ca to apply

For more details, visit Brock University Scholarship webpage