Partially Funded Fellowships for PhD Students at McGill University in Canada

McGill University offers partially funded fellowships for incoming students accepted into a doctoral degree at the university (Tomlinson Doctoral Fellowships). These fellowships are awarded annually by Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS) to recruit outstanding students into Doctoral degree programs. You will have the chance to go on and win other prestigious awards like Vaniers or CGSDs.

If you get this fellowship, you will have:

• Up to $35,000 per year, renewable twice.
• International students also receive a Differential Fee Waiver (DFW).

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You should follow the following criteria:

• The Tomlinson Fellowships are for incoming students accepted into a doctoral degree at McGill University with a start date of Fall 2023. 
• Students currently enrolled at McGill, or whose latest degree was completed or in progress at McGill, are ineligible. 
• Former McGill students who later completed a graduate degree elsewhere may apply. 
• Visiting students at McGill, who are completing the requirements for a degree from another university, may apply.
• Only applicants with a first-class academic record.
• McGill considers a first-class GPA to be 3.7 (or 3.5 in Law) in each of the last two (2) years of full-time study at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
• Applicants must already have an admissions letter and a funding letter.

Evaluation Criteria:

You will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

• Academic Excellence
• Research Ability or Potential (based on personal statement)
• Research Project
• Reference Letters
• Nomination Letter from Department
• Quality of the Chosen Environments (supervisor’s statement)

About McGill University:

McGill University is one of Canada's best-known institutions of higher learning and one of the leading universities in the world. With students coming to McGill from some 150 countries, their student body is the most internationally diverse of any research-intensive university in the country. McGill is recognized around the world for the excellence of its teaching and research programs. Ernest Rutherford's Nobel Prize-winning research on the nature of radioactivity was conducted at McGill, part of a long tradition of innovation on its campuses that includes the invention of the artificial blood cell and Plexiglas. Today their professors are building a new field of epigenetics, developing alternative energy sources from crop plants, and driving human achievement in every field imaginable.

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