About Scholarship: The Connaught International Scholarships for Doctoral Students provides financial support to outstanding international doctoral students and assists Graduate Units in recruiting and supporting top international graduate students.
Study: Scholarships are provided in the courses offered by the university
Course Level: PhD degree
Scholarship By: University of Toronto
Location: Canada
Eligibility: Nominees must be new international applicants who have or will be offered admission to full-time doctoral or doctoral-stream programs within the funded-cohort.
-Nominees must begin their program in the 2013-2014 academic years (no later than fall 2013).
-Nominees must not have been previously registered at UofT.
Scholarship Open for International Students: International students can apply for this scholarship.
Number of awards: Approximately 20 Connaught International Scholarships for Doctoral Students will be awarded for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Value and Duration: The effective value of the Connaught Scholarship is $35,000 total (including tuition and incidental fees), and the scholarship is renewable in the same form throughout for the duration of the funding package.
-The graduate unit will cover the cost of tuition at the domestic student rate as well as the normal minimum funding in the graduate unit of $15,000 or higher (using a combination of Research and Teaching Assistantships, UofT Fellowships, etc.).
-Under the Connaught Scholarship Program, the Graduate Awards Office exempts the student from international-tuition-fees (bringing the tuition-fee down to the domestic rate)
-The Connaught Program will provide “top-up” funding to bring the total funding amount to $35,000.00 from the normal minimum in the graduate unit. • Scholarships will continue in the same form throughout the normal period in the funded cohort (i.e. 4 or 5 years, according to individual units).
Selection criteria: Nominees will be ranked by the SGS Awards Committee.
-Recognizing the importance of timeliness in the recruitment process, Graduate Units will be informed of the results shortly after the committee meeting on March 6, 2013.
-SGS will prepare and provide the Graduate Unit with the award offer letter addressed to the successful candidate, signed by the Dean of Graduate Studies, Vice-Provost, Graduate Education, as well as the terms and conditions of the scholarship.
-To accept the scholarship, successful candidates must provide written acceptance of both the Units’ offer of admission and the Connaught Scholarship to the Graduate Unit within two weeks of the award offer letter.
-The Graduate Unit must notify SGS of both accepted and declined award offers.
-Scholarships are awarded to meritorious candidates as ranked by the SGS committee,
-If an award is declined by a successful candidate, SGS will offer the award to the next highest ranked candidate on the Connaught reversion list until all scholarships have been awarded (i.e. Graduate Units may not reallocate a declined offer within their own department).
Apply: Please enter all nominee information into the attached Connaught Nomination Spreadsheet and provide a complete nomination package for each candidate which includes the documents listed below.
-Each nomination package should be scanned and saved as a single PDF file into your Unit’s “SGSDrive” folder. Nomination packages should include:
-A brief cover letter (one paragraph) from the nominating Graduate Unit highlighting the strengths of the nominee
-Copies (both sides) of all academic transcripts (originals not required)
-Two letters of reference (letters may be used from the candidates admission file)
-Nominee’s C.V. (no page restriction)
-Other relevant documents (optional)
Deadline: February 13, 2013
Further Information: http://www.sgs.utoronto.ca/Assets/SGS+Digital+Assets/2013-2014+Connaught+Announcement.pdf
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