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The topic of financing your graduate education is important. Not being able to make ends meet and cover the costs associated with your education can be stressful.
Throughout our conversations with graduate students, we are often struck by two themes regarding funding:
No matter what type of graduate program you wish to pursue, you should be well informed regarding the cost of graduate studies before making your decision to enrol in a graduate degree program. Be sure to view our tuition and fees pages and estimate the cost of living in the city in which the Laurier campus you are attending is located.
In order to help graduate students manage the cost of their program, Laurier provides graduate students with a unique tuition payment option designed to help alleviate the financial pressures of pursuing graduate studies. Students can apply each term to enrol in the Graduate Student Tuition Payment Plan Program. The plan allows students to pay their tuition fees in three (3) equal instalments throughout the term rather than paying tuition fees in one payment at the start of the term.
Financial support is available to students enrolled in full-time graduate studies at Laurier. If you're a domestic student, enrolled in a full-time research-intensive program, we guarantee competitive funding to help with the cost of your graduate studies. For students applying to professional programs, funding opportunities also exist, and you should consult the program’s graduate coordinator.
Governments and universities offer the opportunity for prospective and current graduate students to compete in scholarship competitions to help students finance their education and living expenses, to help students develop research skills, and to assist in the training of highly qualified personnel.
Normally, a first-class average (A-/80%) is required, and depending on your program, you could be eligible to compete for $15,000-$35,000/year of scholarship support. Applying to these opportunities may make your application to a graduate program more competitive. More importantly, winning any of these scholarship competitions will help fund your graduate education (it also looks great on a CV!).
Some of our major scholarship competitions are below. We encourage you to learn more about the scholarships for which you may be eligible.
Be sure to apply. Don’t leave money on the table!
The OGS program is jointly funded by the Province of Ontario and Ontario universities. OGS awards are merit-based scholarships available to domestic and international graduate students in most disciplines of academic study (all research-intensive and some professional graduate programs are eligible).
An OGS is valued at a maximum of $15,000.
The objective of the CGSM program is to help develop research skills and assist in the training of highly qualified personnel by supporting graduate students who demonstrate a high standard of achievement from undergraduate degrees and early graduate studies.
CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC CGS M scholarships are valued at $17,500 for 12 months.