University of Toronto Connaught Doctoral Scholarships 2027

The Connaught Doctoral Scholarship is a cost-sharing initiative designed to assist graduate units in recruiting and supporting top doctoral students by providing a top-up scholarship to each recipient, which will be paid in addition to the program’s normal funding package provided by the graduate unit.

Table of Content

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

Summary

• Application DeadlineNot Specified
• Study LevelPhD
• SponsorUniversity of Toronto
• City to studyToronto
• School to studyUniversity of Toronto
• Course to study
• Eligible CountryAll Countries

Benefits

• CAD $10,000 annual scholarship top-up.

• Minimum combined annual funding package of CAD $50,000.

• Renewable for four years, with a possible fifth year depending on the programme.

• Regular doctoral funding from the graduate department.

• Potential access to teaching and research assistantships.

• Tuition and fees included in the overall funding package.

Important: The CAD $50,000 is the combined funding package, not an additional CAD $50,000 scholarship on top of the CAD $10,000 award.

Requirements

Nominees must:

• New incoming doctoral students;
• Not be currently registered in a degree program at the University of Toronto at the undergraduate or graduate level;
• Have been or will be offered admission to a full-time doctoral program+ with a funding commitment beginning September of the upcoming academic year?; and
• Have achieved an A- average in each of the last two years of full-time study.?

* Successful international nominees who transition to permanent residency during their Connaught Scholarship funding will continue to be eligible for the balance of their renewable scholarship.

+ Units who do not admit successful applicants directly to the doctoral program (or doctoral direct entry) and require the applicants to first register as master’s students and then subsequently transfer to the doctoral (without obtaining the master’s degree), may submit a request for these candidates to be considered eligible for this competition. If granted, the students must transfer to the graduate units’ doctoral program within the program’s standard reclassification time period (max. 24 months).

Application Deadline

How To Apply

For more information, visit University of Toronto scholarship webpage.