Call for UBC Four Year Doctoral Fellowship 2024 is now open!!!
The Four Year Doctoral Fellowship (4YF) program will ensure UBC’s best PhD, DMA, and MDPhD students are provided with financial support of at least $18,200 per year plus tuition for up to four years of their doctoral studies. This program allows UBC to continue to attract and support outstanding domestic and international doctoral students, and provide those students with stable, base-level funding for their doctoral studies and research.
In support of the University of British Columbia’s mission to be one of the world’s very best universities, the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies strives to elevate achievement and enhance the education of graduate students in a global context, providing
- Responsive and responsible administration that is transparent, consistent and equitable;
- An intellectual and social environment that enhances the quality of graduate education, based on the values of excellence and mutual respect;
- Superior service with activities and support programs for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff;
- Outstanding opportunities for professional development that enhance career options and encourage graduates and postdocs to contribute positively to a civil and sustainable society.
The Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies (G+PS) office is engaged in discussion and actively working on initiatives related to UBC graduate students identifying as belonging to marginalized and/or underrepresented groups, such as Indigenous, Black, Persons of Colour (IBPOC), LGBTQ2S+ and persons with disabilities.
It is essential for UBC to create an inclusive environment where students feel comfortable and safe while pursuing their studies. Graduate students from equity deserving groups enrich the educational environment tremendously through their outstanding scholarship, unique perspectives, knowledge traditions, and lived experiences. UBC celebrates these strengths and recognize diversity of perspectives as central to supporting academic excellence. UBC is aware of the systemic barriers and challenges that these communities have faced, and recognize it is an on-going issue. UBC is working to improve the experience of graduate students and dismantle systems of colonialism, classism and economic inequality.
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Students are provided with financial support of at least $18,200 per year plus tuition for up to four years of their doctoral studies.
Eligibilities
- Four fellowships may be held by domestic and international students. In general, the fellowships are offered to students beginning their first year of full time PhD, DMA, or MDPhD studies, but may be offered to continuing 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, until four years after the external award start date or until the end of their 5th year in Doctoral program, whichever comes first.
- 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, until four years after the 4YF start date or until the end of their 5th year in Doctoral program, whichever comes first.
Application Process
- To be considered for Four Year Fellowship funding, students submit an application for admission to the appropriate graduate program at UBC. For information about admission procedures and requirements visit the Application & Admission page.
- All PhD, DMA, and MDPhD applicants offered admission are automatically considered for 4YF funding.
Application Deadline: December 31, 2024 (40 Days Remaining)
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