Scholarships for a PhD in Canada

As of the latest verification run, 56 active PhD scholarships are listed for Canada, including 5 that offer full funding (tuition and stipend combined), 19 stipend-only awards, 26 partial awards, and 6 tuition-specific waivers. Every entry links to its own official university or government source.

Several explicitly include India - the IDRC Doctoral Research Awards and IDRC Research Awards (both reserved for citizens of developing countries, India named), the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarships (Indian citizens eligible once enrolled at a Canadian university), the Mitacs Globalink Research Award (open to countries without a Canadian travel advisory, India currently eligible), and the Merit Scholarship for Foreign Students (PBEEE) in Quebec, which runs a dedicated India doctoral track. Most of the rest are open to "all international" students, which includes Indians.

Almost never at the scholarship level - this list has no GRE requirement, and only a few reference an academic-average cutoff (commonly 80% or an A- equivalent) tied to the university's own doctoral admission, not the scholarship itself. Most Canadian PhD funding is bundled automatically with the admission offer, so it's the program's admission bar, not a separate test score, that decides eligibility.

Canadian PhDs are usually funded as a "package" from the department, and these 56 scholarships mostly top that up rather than replace it - 19 are stipend add-ons, 26 are partial awards (often a fixed annual amount or percentage), and 6 are tuition-only waivers that reduce the international fee differential. Only 5 genuinely cover both tuition and stipend as a standalone award.

24 of the 56 listings carry a specific calendar deadline, several clustered in the autumn Tri-Agency cycle or around admission rounds, while the rest are awarded automatically at admission or nominated internally by the graduate program - so for those, the practical deadline is your PhD application deadline itself. Always confirm the current cycle on the official source before applying.

54 of these 56 entries were confirmed live at their official source on the latest verification run; the remaining 2 are held in an integrity queue as not-yet-confirmed - their official page is live, but we couldn't confirm the listing on our last review run (sometimes the provider's site restricts outside access). See the Verification Ledger for the full methodology and run date.