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University of Alberta Calendar 2023-2024 
    
University of Alberta Calendar 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Graduate Financial Support


Return to: Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research  

NOTICE: Effective October 16, 2023, the name of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research (FGSR) has been changed to the Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies (GPS). All references to FGSR will be updated to GPS with the publication of the 2024-2025 Calendar.



The Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research (FGSR) administers numerous graduate awards and scholarships and distributes information on sources of graduate student funding.

Graduate Teaching or Research Assistantships

Please see the Collective Agreement for Academically-employed Graduate Students for detailed information about graduate assistantships.

University-Administered Awards—General Information

Through the Graduate Scholarship Committee (GSC), the FGSR approves and adjudicates numerous awards and scholarships, and develops and approves new awards policy. The GSC also administers and adjudicates the annual general awards competition, approves new awards, and develops graduate awards policy.

For general FGSR awards and scholarships policy, please see the Awards Winners Handbook.

Loans and Bursaries

See Bursary Information on the FGSR website.