Scholarships
Graduate students at Oxford are highly successful at winning scholarships from all sources, and are currently supported by nearly £70m of scholarship funding. Almost two-thirds of our doctoral students are fully funded.
Use our Fees, Funding and Scholarship Search tool to get a comprehensive list of all of the University scholarships for which you are eligible.
Oxford has a wide range of full and partial scholarships available for graduate students from Canada.
Oxford-specific funding opportunities
The following scholarships are offered in association with the University:
- Clarendon Fund
Oxford’s largest scholarship provider is open to all incoming graduate students and offers over 100 full scholarships each year from annual donations from Oxford University Press, our colleges and external partners. Currently, Canadians are the second highest recipients of the Clarendon Scholarship. - Rhodes Scholarships
Eleven Rhodes Scholars are selected annually from across Canada. To learn more about the Rhodes scholarship, visit their alumni video wall. - Commonwealth Scholarship Commission/University of Oxford joint awards
Doctoral study in any subject. - The Mica and Ahmet Ertegun Graduate Scholarship Programme in the Humanities
For highly qualified students who wish to undertake graduate study in the humanities, who have a plan to enlarge their knowledge, who have the desire to extend their vision, and who seek the opportunity to exchange their ideas. - Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarships in the Humanities
Doctoral research in history, literature or languages. - Colleges and departments
various awards and scholarships.
Loans
Canadian students may also be eligible for support through two different government student loan programmes:
- The federal programme called the Canada Student Loans Program.
- Provincial and territorial programmes; in four provinces (Ontario; Saskatchewan; Newfoundland and Labrador; New Brunswick), provincial-federal loan programmes are integrated. All remaining provinces and territories, with the exception of Yukon, offer stand-alone loan programmes. There is more about the programmes on the CanLearn website.
If you take out a loan through one of these programmes and need to have enrolment forms and tuition fee confirmations completed, the team at Oxford which deals with US loans also handle Canadian loan and tax queries. Please contact them at us.loans@admin.ox.ac.uk
External funding opportunities
In addition to the university-wide scholarships, the following scholarships are available to Canadian graduate applicants:
- Trudeau Foundation Scholarships
For students from Canada who wish to undertake doctoral study, or are part-way through a doctoral course. - The Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund (CCSF)
Provides awards ranging from £500 to £3,000 to Canadians for academic and artistic study in the UK. - Canadian High Commission in London
Offers funding to academics who undertake research leading to publication or to develop courses about Canada, and grants to institutions both to carry out research projects on Canada and to develop the study of Canada within their institution. - Mackenzie King Open Scholarship
Open to graduates of any Canadian university for full-time graduate studies in any field within Canada or abroad. - The Law Foundation of British Columbia
Offers up to 5 Graduate Fellowships to students pursuing full time graduate studies in law or a law-related area; applicants must either be residents of British Columbia, graduates of a British Columbia law school or members of the British Columbia Bar. - Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Provides graduate scholarships and postdoctoral fellowships on a competitive basis for tenure at universities outside Canada. - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Provides funding for citizens and permanent residents of Canada who wish to undertake study in the field of Humanities or Social Sciences.
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