Published: 29 Jul 2024 571 views
The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) program is designed to attract and retain world-class doctoral students by offering them a significant financial award to assist them during their studies at Canadian universities. Vanier Scholars demonstrate leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in the social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and engineering, and health-related fields.
The Vanier CGS program reaffirms Canada as a global centre of excellence in research and education.
$50,000 per year for up to three years; PLUS a bonus from FGSR of a one time, lump sum of $7,000 paid out at the beginning of your award start date
To be considered for a Vanier CGS, a student CAN be a foreign citizen or a Canadian citizen and MUST:
AND for FULL eligiblity criteria, please see the Vanier website: https://vanier.gc.ca/en/eligibility-admissibilite.html
NOON Thursday, August 15 (to your Academic Unit); Academic Units must have nominations (one nomination per faculty) to FGSR by NOON on Thursday, August 29
Without exception, all applications must be completed on ResearchNet.
Transcripts that are Issued to Student will be deemed ineligible by Vanier. Have all transcripts sent electronically to [email protected] as we must have them BEFORE the deadline in order to for you to be considered. Late transcripts cannot be accpeted so please plan ahead.
If you have attended universities outside of North America, please formally request your international transcripts TWO weeks in advance by filling out the Request for Transcripts other than University of Regina form. The form can be found on our FGSR FORMS page, under Student Request Forms: https://www.uregina.ca/gradstudies/forms.html.
Please email the request to [email protected]. Late requests (less than 2 weeks) cannot be granted so please plan ahead.
We strongly encourage Indigenous students to self-declare on their application.
FULL eligiblility requirements are listed here: http://www.vanier.gc.ca/en/eligibility-admissibilite.html.
Students are to email a copy of their full online application form from ResearchNet and submit directly to their Academic Unit by deadline. Please ensure you contact your unit ahead of time to find the correct email to send your application to, to ensure you are not late and then deemed ineligible. Then, faculties will make the decision as to which student to nominate to FGSR.
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