Affiliated Fellowships Doctoral Program

Applicants must meet all eligibility requirements.

Applicants who plan to be registered in a master's program in September 2025, should refer to Affiliated Fellowships Master's Program.

Citizenship

All students regardless of citizenship are eligible to apply. However, Canadian citizens and permanent residents are required to apply to the Tri-Agency CGS D program to be considered for Affiliated funding, if they are eligible to do so. 

Fields of Study

With the exception of those program listed below, students in all fields of graduate study are eligible to apply. Exceptions:

• Programs that are not administered by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (such as MBA, MEng, MEL, MM, MDS)
• Programs that do not include a significant research component (i.e. coursework-based programs such as MPPGA, MOT, MPH, MPT, and MKIN)
• Doctor of Pharmacy

Student Status

Applicants who plan to be registered full-time graduate students at UBC's Vancouver campus as of September 2025 are eligible to apply.

Months of Graduate Funding

Doctoral-level Funding

To be eligible, applicants must have completed, as of December 31, 2024:

• between 0 and 36 months of full-time (or full-time equivalent) doctoral studies, if they have undertaken masters-level studies (whether completed or not). In cases where a student has transferred directly from a master’s program into a doctoral program without receiving a master’s degree, eligibility for doctoral funding will be counted from the effective date of transfer to the doctoral program. 
  • Successful applicants for doctoral-level funding who have undertaken master's-level studies (first point immediately above) will not receive funding past the end of their 48th month of doctoral-level study
• between 0 and 48 months of full-time (or full-time equivalent) doctoral studies, if they have proceeded directly from a bachelor’s or equivalent program to their doctoral program and have not held four years of combined doctoral funding from Tri-Agency scholarships, Affiliated Fellowships, Four Year Fellowship, and other multi-year UBC fellowships (e.g., Indigenous Graduate Fellowship, International Doctoral Fellowship, and Graduate Global Leadership Fellowship).
  • Successful applicants for doctoral-level funding who have proceeded directly from a bachelor’s or equivalent program (second point immediately above) will not receive funding past the end of their 60th month of doctoral-level study

Please note that:

• All previous studies at the graduate level, regardless of institution and discipline, will be included in determining months of study eligibility. For example, a prior PhD's months of study would count towards the applicant's total doctoral months of study.
• Students registered in a fast-track program (accelerated from a Master’s program into a doctoral program without obtaining the master’s degree) or a direct-entry doctoral program (no master's-level studies) who have completed between 0 and 12 months of graduate-level studies by December 31, 2024 may choose to submit their application to the master's-level funding competition. This will result in their application being ranked against applications from other students at a similar point in their graduate career. Should they submit their application to the master's-level funding competition, any funding offer will be restricted to a maximum of 12 months and they will not be considered for doctoral-level funding such as a Killam Doctoral Scholarship. They can subsequently apply to future doctoral-level competitions for further funding.

Other funding

• While award recipients will be selected based on the evaluation criteria, priority will be given to eligible candidates who do not hold significant scholarship funding (i.e., $16,000 or higher) for the 2025/2026 academic year (September 2025 to August 2026).  If a student is offered Affiliated funding, and later receives other scholarship funding for the same period, the Affiliated funding offer will normally be rescinded.
• Exceptions:
  • Students are normally permitted to hold “GSI”, department-recommended donor-funded awards (i.e. not 4YF), and RA/TA positions at the same time that they hold Affiliated funding.
  • Some of the Affiliated awards have very niche award descriptions (eligibility requirements).  If an Affiliated award receives a very low number of eligible applications, it may be awarded to a student who already has significant scholarship funding.
  • The Killam Doctoral Scholarships are offered to the top doctoral candidates in the Affiliated Fellowships-Doctoral competition who meet the Killam's additional eligibility requirements.  Recipients who have other funding may receive the Killam as a top-up or receive the research and travel allowance portion only.