The primary purpose of the Connaught International Scholarships for Doctoral Students is to assist graduate units in recruiting and supporting outstanding international scholars to the University of Toronto’s graduate programs. The effective value to each student in 2011-2012 will be $35,000.00 total (including tuition).
Value
· The department will cover the cost of tuition at the domestic student rate plus the normal minimum funding in the graduate unit of $15,000 or higher (using the normal combination of Research and Teaching Assistantships, UofT Fellowships, etc.).
· The Connaught Program will cover “top-up” funding to bring the total funding to $35,000 from the normal minimum in the graduate unit ($15,000 or higher).
· Scholarships will continue in the same form throughout the normal period in the funded cohort (4 or 5 years, according to the standard duration of the department’s funding package
Eligibility
· Nominees must be new international applicants applying to full-time doctoral or doctoral-stream programs within the funded-cohort (M.A., M.Sc., MASc, PhD).
· Nominees must begin their program in the 2011-2012 academic year (no later than fall 2011) and cannot have been previously registered within UofT.
To apply for scholarship : apply to an eligible graduate program at UofT – in order to do this, they you must follow the admission instructions on the website of the UofT dept. you’re interested in
Scholarship Application Deadline: February 22, 2011
