Fellowship support, if offered, normally is awarded on an annual basis and is not renewed automatically. Throughout their programs, and particularly when beyond the two and four year limits mentioned above, students are urged to pursue independently all potential funding sources that may be available to them. The University and the Faculty reserve the right not to award a particular fellowship in any year. Many staff are able to provide financial assistance to M.Sc. F. and Ph.D. students in the form of research assistantships from research funds to be used for work by a graduate student on a specific research project.
Work usually constitutes part of the student's thesis research.
Research assistantships are limited and awarded at the discretion of the individual staff member concerned. F. and Ph.D. students are expected to communicate directly with potential supervisors early in the application process to ascertain whether research assistantship support is likely to be available from the supervisor's research funding. A maximum of 280 hours per session is permitted. International applicants are encouraged to investigate in their home countries all possible sources for funding of their proposed studies in Canada. Some scholarship programs shown here, as well as some research assistantship funds, are restricted to Canadian citizens and permanent residents in Canada only.