University of British Columbia

UBC funds international undergraduates through a clear hierarchy, and it is worth knowing before you apply. The top tier is the International Major Entrance Scholarship, an award for entering international students who come straight from secondary school, decided on academic merit at admission. Below it sit the university's automatic entrance awards, which UBC uses to recognize strong applicants across faculties, and faculty-level scholarships that open once you are a student.

For graduate students the mechanism is more decentralized, which is normal for a research university of UBC's size. Doctoral and research master's students are funded by their department or supervisor, drawing on federal programs that apply across Canada, including the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships and the tri-council grants from NSERC, SSHRC and CIHR, and each department administers its own teaching and research assistantships. The records below that name a specific faculty are telling you where the money lives.

International applicants to UBC should treat admission and funding as one process: most undergraduate awards are decided from the same application, so the deadline that matters is the admission deadline, shown on the card of any award you are considering. UBC's awards database, reachable from each official link below, is the authority on current rounds and eligibility.