Funding Opportunities
Undergraduate Students
- NSERC USRA (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Undergraduate Student Research Award)
- Value: $4,500 + University contribution
- Duration: 4 months
- Application Deadline: Varies
- Eligibility: Must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident; GPA > 3.7.
Graduate Students
- NSERC PGS-M (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postgraduate Scholarship for Masters Students)
- Value: $17,300
- Duration: 1 year
- Application Deadline: October 15
- Eligibility: Must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident; GPA > 3.7.
- NSERC CGS-M (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship for Masters Students)
- Value: $17,500
- Duration: 1 year
- Application Deadline: October 15
- Eligibility: Must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident; GPA > 3.7.
- NSERC PGS-D (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postgraduate Graduate Scholarship for Doctoral Students)
- Value: $21,000/year
- Duration: 2 or 3 years
- Application Deadline: October 15
- Eligibility: Must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident; GPA > 3.7.
- NSERC CGS-D (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship for Doctoral Students)
- Value: $35,000/year
- Duration: 2 or 3 years
- Application Deadline: October 15
- Eligibility: Must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident; GPA > 3.7.
- NSERC Vanier CGS (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship for Doctoral Students)
- Value: $50,000/year
- Duration: 3 years
- Application Deadline: November 6
- Eligibility: Must be nominated by host university; first-class average during last two full-time years of study.
- Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship (The "Alberta Advantage")
- Value: $23,000/year (M.Sc.) or $26,000/year (Ph.D.), plus $1,500/year research allowance
- Duration: 2 or 4 years for new M.Sc. and Ph.D. students, respectively
- Application Deadline: December 1
- Eligibility: Must be entering or currently in a full-time graduate program (with NSERC funding) at an Alberta university.
Postdoctoral Fellows
- NSERC PDF (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship)
- Value: $40,000/year
- Duration: 2 years
- Application Deadline: October 15
- Eligibility: Must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.
- Government of Canada Post-Doctoral Reserch Fellowship
- Value: $32,000
- Duration: 1 year
- Application Deadline: Varies by country of origin, but awards commence no later than September 30
- Eligibility: Must be a citizen of one of the following countries: Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Norway, Russia or Switzerland
