Awards & Scholarships
The University of Manitoba rewards academic excellence with an exciting program of entrance scholarships for recent high school graduates and a wide range of awards for current students who excel within their faculties.
In 2010/11, more than 1100 1st-year students received entrance scholarships totalling over $1.5 million, while 2nd year and senior students received more than $6 million of scholarship and award funding. When this is combined with $340,000 in athletic scholarships, $3 million in UM bursaries, and $1.3 million in scholarship and bursary funding from outside agencies, the University of Manitoba issued more than $13 million to students in the form of awards, scholarships and bursaries.
Find information on awards today! Click on the links below for more information (listed in alphabetical order):
- Athletic awards
- Automatic undergraduate scholarships - for current students
- Bursaries - need-based awards
- Entrance awards - high school students
- Current award postings - apply today for UM and non-UM awards
- External award listings - an ongoing listing of non-UM awards
- Program specific awards - search faculty/school websites for awards
- Graduate students
- Saunderson and Stanton Awards for Excellence in Teaching
- University of Manitoba Employees Scholarship - Information & application
- University of Manitoba Colleges - The University of Manitoba campus has 4 colleges that may offer bursaries and scholarships for student members when they join (Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface is excluded for Fort Garry students).
A little 'thank you' can go a long way - Don't forget to thank the donor of your award
Scholarship Search Tools (national databases):
- studentawards.com
- scholarshipscanada.com
- disabilityawards.ca
- Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC)
- Equals6
We also suggest trying a search engine such as Google or Yahoo to search for scholarships directly related to your faculty (i.e. Google Search: Pharmacy Scholarship Canada).
