Entrance scholarships, awards, and bursaries

Each year the University of Waterloo offers numerous entrance scholarships and awards to outstanding students. Entrance bursaries are also available to help students in financial need.

• Entrance scholarships, awards, and bursaries are for full-time, first-year students who are in a degree program and beginning university or college for the first time in September 2020.
• You'll automatically be considered for the majority of scholarships when you apply.
• A small number of scholarships and awards require an application - these are noted in the database.
• An application is also required for the entrance bursary program. Note that this bursary is for Ontario students only.

You can search our entrance awards database to find scholarships, bursaries and other awards at Waterloo.

As well, you can find a summary of our general and faculty-specific entrance scholarships on the undergraduate admissions website.