Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships

The Government of Canada launched the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) program in 2008. The program is designed to attract and retain world-class doctoral students by offering them a significant financial award to assist them during their studies at Canadian universities. Vanier scholars demonstrate leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies in the social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and engineering, or health-related fields. Scholarship recipients receive $50,000 each year for three years.^[1] Once fully implemented, the program will support up to 166 scholars^[2] annually.

The Vanier CGS program helps Canada’s universities attract excellent doctoral students from across Canada and around the world. These promising scholars help create a dynamic and innovative environment on Canadian university campuses. Vanier scholarship is referred to as Rhodes scholarship of Canada.

Georges Philias Vanier[]

The Vanier CGS program honours distinguished Canadian soldier and diplomat Major-General the Right Honourable Georges Philias Vanier (1888-1967), who served as governor general of Canada from 1959 to 1967.