A scholarship, valued at $2,000, will be awarded annually to a graduate student registered full time in the Department of Applied Mathematics in the Faculty of Mathematics.
Program
Awards valued at $10,000 each will be automatically provided to international students admitted to and registered full-time in a course-based master’s program in one of the following departments in the Faculty of Engineering: Chemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering.
An award, valued at $4,500, will be provided annually to a third- or fourth-year undergraduate student or a student enrolled in a graduate program within the Faculty of Engineering (excluding the School of Architecture). Selection will be based on academic excellence combined with the pursuit of an international co-op placement or internship that is providing minimal pay.
A scholarship valued at $5,000 will be provided to a full-time domestic graduate student entering first year of the doctoral program in any department in the Faculty of Engineering.
The Buitrago Contingency Bursary in Engineering is available to international students registered full-time in a master’s or doctoral program in the Faculty of Engineering.
Two scholarships, each valued at $15,000, will be provided to PhD students registered full-time at the University of Waterloo. Selection will be based on academic excellence and demonstrated research interest in the areas of Large Language Models, Agentic Systems, Tabular Data Modelling, or Trustworthy AI.
Awards will be provided annually to select students registered full time in the Master’s of Computational Mathematics (MMath in CM) programs, in the Faculty of Mathematics.
Awards will be provided annually to graduate students in the Master of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (MDSAI) and the Master of Mathematics in Data Science (MMath in DS) programs, in the Faculty of Mathematics.
One scholarship, valued at $15,000, will be provided annually to a graduate student registered full-time in the Master’s or Doctoral program in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering; preference will be given to doctoral candidates.
For complete award details, including eligibility, selection criteria and award value, please visit Waterloo's Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral (CGRS D) web page. Prior to Fall 2025, recipients were awarded the CIHR Doctoral Foreign Study Award (DFSA), the NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships Doctoral (PGS D), the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship the Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral (CGS D) or the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS D).