UBC PhD Fellowship for International and Canadian Students 2018

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University of British Columbia, Canada, invites applications for the 2018 doctoral fellowship which is awarded to attract and support outstanding domestic and international PhD students, and provide those students with stable, base-level funding for the first four years of their PhD studies and research.

Worth of Award: Up to $18,000 stipend plus full tuition coverage for four years.

Eligibility

• Four Year Fellowships may be held by domestic and international students. In general, the fellowships are offered to students beginning their first year of PhD studies, but may be offered to continuing PhD students.
• 4YF funding may be offered for up to four years, but the duration of funding may be less in some circumstances (please refer to the 4YF Guidelines for details).
•  In all cases, funding is subject to satisfactory academic progress.
• Students holding the following Tri-Agency awards automatically become 4YF designates:  Vanier Scholarships, Doctoral Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGSD), CIHR Doctoral Research Awards, NSERC Doctoral Postgraduate Scholarships (PGSD), and SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships. Doctoral students who obtain Tri-Agency scholarships may be eligible for 4YF tuition coverage and will receive 4YF stipend and tuition support once their external scholarship funding ends, to the end of the fourth year of PhD studies.
• Other major external scholarship winners who are selected as 4YF designates may be eligible for 4YF tuition coverage and will receive 4YF stipend and tuition support once their external scholarship funding ends, to the end of the fourth year of PhD studies.

How to Apply

• To be considered for Four Year Fellowship funding, students submit an application for admission to the appropriate graduate program at UBC.
• All PhD applicants offered admission are automatically considered for 4YF funding.
• Each graduate program is allocated a number of Four Year Fellowships each year. Graduate programs review their incoming and continuing students and offer Four Year Fellowships to their very best students, with priority given to incoming students.
• Graduate programs notify the Faculty of Graduate Studies which students have been chosen to receive a Four Year Fellowship by submitting a signed University Award Recommendation Form, listing award number 6456.
• It is not necessary to list an award amount.
• Recommendation forms should be submitted at least eight weeks before the requested 4YF start date.

Selection process

• Selection based on academic excellence, upon the recommendation of the graduate program.

Deadline: No deadline for the award. Apply early.

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