Awards & Financial Support for Prospective Students
University-Level Non-Merit Scholarships (including Tuition Fee Awards)
All applicants will be automatically considered for all university non-merit scholarships, including Tuition Fee Awards. For information, please see the university-level non-merit scholarships web page.
Faculty of Science Master’s Tuition Award
The Faculty of Science (FoS) launched the Faculty of Science Master’s Tuition Award in April 2024, providing a tuition award to every first-year Master’s student entering a thesis-based Master’s degree in the FoS (students starting September 2024 and January 2025) and carrying out research under the supervision of a faculty member in the FoS. The Faculty of Science Master’s Tuition Award has been extended for first-year Master’s students starting in May and September 2025. Each student will receive an award equivalent to the domestic tuition (currently $5515.71 per year, but may increase) for one year after their starting date.
Merit Scholarships
Four-Year Doctoral Fellowships
The Faculty of Graduate Studies offers Four-Year Doctoral Fellowships each year to meritorious PhD students. The award holder will receive the basic 4YF award and an additional topup. The combination of the fellowship and topup will be $2,000 above to the department’s minimum support for the award's duration.
Awards are open to PhD students regardless of citizenship or visa status. All PhD applicants are automatically considered for this award; there is no need to apply separately. Please refer to the Faculty of Graduate Studies website for more information.
Computer Science Merit Scholarship
The UBC Department of Computer Science is offering CS Merit Awards to outstanding incoming international and domestic students. Students awarded a CS Merit Award are guaranteed award-level funding in their first year at UBC.
CS Merit Award recipients who also receive an external scholarship (such as an NSERC award) will receive CS Merit Award support once their external scholarship ends. Specifically, they will receive the department's NSERC topup for the duration of their NSERC (1 year for a MSc), and the CS Merit Award for the balance of the two-year period.
All students applying to the MSc and PhD programs will be automatically considered; there is no need to apply separately. These competitive awards are aimed at exceptional student applicants.
NSERC top-up award
Canadian students who apply for and receive NSERC awards receive a substantial top-up award from the department. Students should apply directly to NSERC for one of these NSERC scholarships. Note that the NSERC awards are available only to Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada living in Canada.
We recommend graduate students apply for CGS-M when you apply for our graduate program if you are eligible. The deadline is usually December 1st. Eligibility: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/students-etudiants/pg-cs/cgsm-bescm_eng.asp
Department's Financial Assistantships
The department provides financial support to incoming graduate students without any scholarships or fellowships. For information on our financial support, please refer to our web page.