Is Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship 2025 application on?
Yes, the Vanier scholarship in Canada is now open for you to apply. The scholarship is given to doctoral students to study in top universities in Canada.
It aims to attract both its Canadian citizens and international students.
These outstanding individuals are interested in pursuing their graduate studies and in areas of learning that is inline with the awarding body areas of learning.
As an an aspiring awardee of this scholarship, you need to apply for the scholarship and when received, you studies is covered for all your degree years.
These students would have excellent academic records, leadership and communication skills in specific graduate areas.
It should be related to natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, humanities and health.
This Vanier Canada graduate scholarship is for three years. It is worth $50,000 which is given to all successful doctoral applicants.
Although the scholarship is mainly for doctoral applicants, a combined MA/PHD or MD/PHD can apply too.
Eligibility Requirements
To apply for Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship 2025 there are some documents you need. Below are the list of documents you should have:
- By May 1 2024, if you are on any doctoral program, you should not be up to 20 months in the program. You are expected to have less than 20 months of study if you are on any doctoral program.
- Your research areas should be related to Health research, natural sciences and/or engineering, social sciences and humanities.
- To apply for the PHD scholarship you need to be able to communicate properly in English.
- This scholarship is opened to all Canadian citizens, permanent residents card holders living in Canada, and also international students.
- If you want to apply for this scholarship, you should not be on any funding from these providers CIHR, NSERC or SSHRC.
- You should be looking for your first doctorial program or studying on your first program.
- You need a nomination from an institution that meets the Vanier Canada graduate scholarship quota.
- You should desire to start your academic year during the summer or the following academic year.
- For every year on this scholarship, it is worth $50,000.
- By January 2026, you should have been enrolled into a full time PHD program.
- The doctoral program you are applying to can include MD/PhD, DVM/PhD, JD/PhD. These programs should have related research areas. While applying for this program, the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship will only fund the PHD part of the program.
- It is required that you have at least a first class average in the last two academic sessions you have had. You should check with your university to know how their first class average is calculated.
How to Apply for Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) ?
To start your application, there are some application process you need.
Do your research on the different Canadian university that aligns with your interest, course of choice and supervisor you would like .
The university chosen has to be inline with the financial quota given by the scholarship. After doing this you submit your application to the nominating body and they will submit it to the secretariat.
Candidates must be selected by an institution. There is a list of resources to help candidates with the application process.
Use this link to get further information on what is needed for the application and how to go about it.
Link to get more information on Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship for International Students https://www.vanier.gc.ca/en/home-accueil.html
Scholarship Summary
- Host institutions: Any Canadian universities
- Program Duration: 3 years
- Field of Study: PhD programs (or combined MA/PhD or MD/PhD)
- Scholarship value: $50,000
- Courses Offered:
- Natural sciences and/or engineering research
- Health research
- Social sciences and humanities research
- Lunch Date:2024-2025 launch date: mid-June 2024
- Deadline: Before November 01, 2024
Disclaimer: You should do further reading about this scholarship on the scholarship website. There might be other information you need not stated here. This is just a summarised version of the scholarship.
