Scholarships offered at admissions

Special Merit Scholarships (master’s and Ph.D.) acknowledge and reward the academic excellence of our master’s and Ph.D. candidates. The Faculty of Arts offers Special Merit Scholarships worth $7,500 over three terms. 

• Offered to selected Canadian citizens, permanent residents, protected persons and international candidates who have an admission average of 8.0 or higher at the time of admission.
• The total value of this scholarship is $7,500, paid in three equal instalments over the first three consecutive terms as a registered full-time student.
• No application is required. All eligible applicants are automatically considered during the admission process. If you’re selected, you’ll receive a scholarship offer with your offer of admission.
• Exclusions: Students registered in the Master of Information Studies (course-based), the Master’s in Conference Interpretation and the Master of Communication (course-based program), the Master’s of Translation (M.Tr.) and students in Graduate Diplomas are not eligible.
   

Admission Scholarships (Ph.D.) ($78,000 offered over four years) recognize the excellence of our Ph.D. candidates. The Faculty of Arts offers Admission Scholarships.  

• Offered on a competitive basis to Canadian citizens, permanent residents, protected persons, members of the diplomatic core and international candidates who have an admission average of 8.0 or higher at the time of admission.
• This financial support offers a minimum value of $78,000 over a period of four years and consists of two components:
  • The first component: An admission scholarship valued at $9,000 per year and paid in instalments of $3,000 per term for the first 12 consecutive terms.
  • The second component: Financial support from your academic unit in the form of assistantship employment contracts or other internal scholarship sources. This component is a minimum value of $10,500 per year for four years.
• To maintain the scholarship, you must maintain full-time enrolment without interruption for the duration of the scholarship, covering 12 consecutive terms.

Differential Tuition Fee Exemption Scholarships are offered to international Francophone and Francophile master’s candidates at the time of admission who:

• hold a secondary or postsecondary diploma attesting to a minimum of two years of student in French and,
• who are also enrolled full-time in a graduate program in French, or the compulsory courses of a program offered in both French and English. 

This scholarship has a total value of $ 33,000 and aims at reducing tuition fees by $ 5,500 per term for a maximum of six terms.

International Doctoral Scholarships aim to assist international students at the doctoral level in reducing their tuition fees.

The scholarship:

• Has a value of $45,000 over five years.
• Is credited to the student’s account, in the amount of $3,000 per term, for 15 consecutive terms.  

For candidates admitted before May 2023, the scholarship is equivalent to the Canadian tuition fees for students residing outside of Ontario and have a duration of five years (or six years for those admitted before 2021).