Faculty of Graduate Studies Distinguished Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship
The Faculty of Graduate Studies Distinguished Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship (DDRS) is a major graduate scholarship funded by the Faculty of Graduate Studies. These scholarships can be offered to qualified applicants alongside offers of admission and are awarded in addition to a doctoral student’s guaranteed funding.
Students funded through the Distinguished Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship are required to apply for the Tri-agency CGS-D and all provincial, national, or international scholarships for which they are eligible. Those who win external awards will have their Recruitment Scholarship and program/supervisor funding adjusted.
- The DDRS is valued at $17,000 per year for four years. The guaranteed graduate stipend students will receive will be the program funding plus the recruitment scholarship ($17,000) for a combined total of $12,000 over the program’s minimum guaranteed funding package for 4 years.
- The scholarship is open to students registered in the first year of a doctoral program in the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Graduate Studies.
- Students transferring directly from a master’s program are not eligible..
- No, this scholarship is only available to Canadian Citizens and Permanent Residents of Canada.
- No, students cannot apply directly for this scholarship. A student must be nominated by their program after the student applies for admission.
- Nominations are recommended by the faculty of the admitting program. Each faculty receives a quota of recruitment awards based on current doctoral registration. Nomination procedures will vary by faculty. For example, some faculties may review admissions as a group following program application deadlines. Other faculties may have a rolling nomination process where eligible candidates can be forwarded for nomination contingent on meeting selection criteria.
- Once a nominee has been selected for an award, the faculty will notify the program and the program can then include the award offer with the offer of admission for the student.
- Contact your Graduate Program Administrator for your program/faculty’s deadlines if any and nomination procedure.
- While you cannot apply for the scholarship directly, you can reach out to your program and/or your prospective supervisor to express your interest in being nominated and to discuss the suitability of your research for the scholarship. It’s important to have this conversation early once you’ve applied for admission to allow adequate time for the nomination process.
- No, this scholarship can only be offered to students at the time of admission.
- No, the scholarship cannot be deferred.
- Each teaching faculty is given a scholarship allocation. It is at the discretion of each faculty to determine how scholarships will be allocated to programs.
- No, however, they must have a UCID in order to be nominated to FGS. So they need to have started an application to program, at minimum, for the nomination to be processed.