Graduate Dean’s Thesis Fellowship

Deadline:

Please check with your Faculty.


Eligibility of Citizenship: Canadian, Permanent Residence, and International
Degree Level: Masters and PhD
Award Status: Open
Applicant Status: Continuing Students

Description

QUICK FACTS

The Graduate Dean’s Thesis Fellowship (GDTF) is a merit-based fellowship that is awarded to full-time, research-based graduate students who are approaching their final term and are focusing on the completion of their thesis or dissertation. This fellowship is intended to provide financial support while students are engaged in the final writing stages of their graduate program. Students may receive a GDTF only once per degree program.

Please note that this fellowship is for students who are nearing degree completion and are entering their final term of study.

Value: $6,000

Eligibility

Academic Standing

  • Each year, students’ progress is evaluated as either satisfactory, requiring improvement, or unsatisfactory through an Annual Progress Report. Students with unsatisfactory progress become ineligible for award funding. Students will regain eligibility when improvement required or satisfactory status is reported in the required six month interim progress report or a subsequent annual progress report
  • Doctoral students must be admitted to candidacy

Number of Months of Study

  • Masters students must have completed, as of the date of receiving the fellowship, no more than 24 months of study in the program for which they are requesting funding
  • PhD students must have completed, as of the date of receiving the fellowship, no more than 60 months of study in the program for which they are requesting funding

Other Funding

  • Students who receive external agency funding through any of the following federal scholarship programs may not concurrently hold a GDTF:
    • SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarships – Doctoral program (CGS D) or SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
    • NSERC CGS D or Postgraduate Scholarships – Doctoral program
    • CIHR CGS D
    • Canada Graduate Scholarships – Master’s program
    • Vanier CGS
    • Trudeau Doctoral Scholarship

Evaluation Criteria

  • This is a competitive fellowship that recognizes excellence in graduate research and study

Application Procedures

  • Please check with your faculty for their internal deadline and selection process

Nomination Procedures

  • Faculties review and evaluate each application that has been submitted by the internal deadline set by the faculty
  • The responsible designate from each faculty informs the College of Graduate Studies which students have been nominated to receive a Graduate Dean’s Thesis Fellowship, based on the quota provided to their faculty
    • Nominations may occur at any time throughout the year
  • The College of Graduate Studies confirms that nominees meet all eligibility criteria
SUBMITTING RECOMMENDATIONS TO COGS

Faculties are to email the name(s) of the recommended student(s) to graduateawards.ok@ubc.ca.

Further information

Conditions for Award Holders

Academic Standing

  • Each year, students’ progress is evaluated as either satisfactory, requiring improvement, or unsatisfactory through an Annual Progress Report. Students with unsatisfactory progress become ineligible for award funding. Students will regain eligibility when improvement required or satisfactory status is reported in the required six month interim progress report or a subsequent annual progress report

Registration

  • In order to remain eligible for this fellowship, students must remain registered as a full-time student for each term of the fellowship payment. Students must register in their thesis course in each term of their studies to ensure that they maintain full-time status

Leave of Absence

  • Students granted a leave of absence retain the full value of any university graduate fellowship or other award whose terms and conditions are established by the College of Graduate Studies. Awards will be suspended at the onset of the leave, and reinstated at the termination of the leave period, provided the student returns to full-time study within the same fiscal year

Withdrawals

  • If an award holder withdraws from their program of study, the funding received during the term for which the withdrawal is processed will be recovered by the College of Graduate Studies

Program Completion

  • If an award holder completes the requirements of their program prior to receiving the full scholarship payment, the award holder will receive the remaining scholarship payment prior to the closing of their program
Questions about this award? Please contact your program assistant