Emergency Loans
Interest free emergency loans are available to full-time graduate students
who are experiencing short-term financial difficulty.
- Loans must be re-paid by the end of the term, and proof of an acceptable
form of repayment must be provided.
- Applications are made to Miranda
Bilotta, Manager, Graduate Financial Aid and Awards, Graduate Studies
Office.
Graduate Student Bursary
A number of bursaries are available to full-time Waterloo graduate students
experiencing short term financial need.
Please Note: Effective May 1, 2008, bursaries for graduate
domestic students (Canadian and Permanent Residents) will be administered
by the Student Awards and Financial Aid Office (SAFA) in
a manner similar to bursaries for undergraduate students. With this move
we hope to provide timely service to both undergraduate students and graduate
students with demonstrated financial need.
Please visit the Student
Awards and Financial Aid (SAFA) website for application procedures and
information on our system assigned bursary process.
To demonstrate financial need, all students are expected to apply for OSAP,
or provincial student assistance from their home province, prior to applying
for a Waterloo bursary. OSAP provides various types of assistance based
on financial need to eligible students. Assistance is intended to supplement,
not to replace, the resources of students and their families. See the OSAP
website for details.
Millennium Bursary Fund
International Students:
Bursaries may be available to international students who are experiencing
short term financial need. Please complete the bursary
application, attach the required documentation, and send it to the Graduate
Studies Office in Needles Hall, Room 2201. If you have any questions, please
contact Miranda Bilotta. Please
note: These funds are awarded for students in financial need.
This means basic needs and educational expenses only.
Graduate Student Birth & Parental Leave Guidelines & Bursary
Form
The University of Waterloo will provide an eight-month birth and parental
(includes adoption) leave to eligible graduate students. The bursary, together
with any other continuing support, is intended to maintain income at about
95% of the average level of income received by the student during the three
previous academic terms, net of tuition, to a maximum of $5,000 for the
first term and $3,000 for the second. See application
and guidelines for further information.
University of Waterloo Day Care Bursary
Full-time graduate students may be eligible to receive funding to assist
with day care expenses. Bursaries are awarded on the basis of financial
need. See the application
form for details.
Graduate Studies Office Research Travel Assistantship
Funds are available for the purpose of assisting full-time Waterloo graduate
students to attend and present their research at professional conferences.
Deadlines occur three times per year. See the application
for further details.
Graduate Studies Endowment Fund
The Graduate Studies Endowment Fund is a semi-autonomous, non-profit organisation
to help ensure a better quality of graduate level education at the University
of Waterloo. Its goal is to promote graduate studies at the University of
Waterloo, fund basic, applied and interdisciplinary research at the graduate
level as well as financially assist graduate students.
