All graduate students in the NBK Institute of Mining Engineering receive financial support during the first 2 years of a thesis-based Masters or the first 4 years of a PhD program, unless otherwise agreed upon at the outset of their program. This does not apply to students taking course-based Master’s degrees, and may not be possible for students in the social sciences.
Financial support is drawn from a number of sources including awards (external awards, UBC awards, Mining Engineering internal awards), teaching assistantships, and stipends from professor’s research grants. Students are expected to be proactive in applying for awards and supervisors are expected to ensure that adequate support is maintained for 2 or 4 years. The funding plan is described to the student in a letter sent from the Associate Dean prior to the student’s arrival, which is signed by the supervisor and the student. Students and their supervisors are expected to review the funding plan on an annual basis to ensure that there is no lapse in funding. Students are expected to make sufficient progress to finish within the 2-year or 4-year time frame.
Awards available to all UBC graduate students are described on the Faculty of Graduate Studies website, at http://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/. All award applications are coordinated through the Graduate Program Office in the NBK Institute of Mining Engineering.
In addition the NBK Institute of Mining Engineering offers top-up awards to graduate students who are National Research Council fellowship award winners. We also offer Graduate Entrance Scholarships to a small number of potential graduate students who show exceptional promise.
The Graduate Support Initiative (GSI) fund will primarily be used for top-up awards for NSERC scholars, as explained on the Faculty of Applied Science website. The top-up awards will be distributed as follows:
Master’s students will receive a top-up stipend of $6,000 per year for the duration of their NSERC scholarship. CGS-D recipients will receive a top-up stipend of $10,000 per year for the duration of their NSERC scholarship. PGS-D recipients will receive a top-up stipend of $6,000 per year plus a tuition award valued at approximately $4,000 per year (for a total of approx. $10,000 per year) for the duration of their NSERC scholarship.
Any remaining GSI money will be assigned to partially cover PhD tuition fees for students who are within the first four years of their PhD studies, and whose tuition fees are not covered either by the discontinued PhD waiver program or by other scholarships and stipends
The NBK Institute of Mining Engineering also offers more than 20 merit-based internal awards that are available to all of our graduate students. Students apply in June of each year through an online process. There are several need-based awards available to UBC graduate students. Detailed information for each award can be obtained on FoGS website.
The Graduate Student Travel Fund provides support to allow students to participate in conferences related to their research.
The Bridge Program is a scholarship-funding and research training program linking the University of British Columbia's faculties of medicine, engineering and interdisciplinary studies. Its mission is to develop creative evidence-based prevention measures for public, environmental and occupational health problems.
The Bridge Program provides fellowship stipends to masters and doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows and private/public sector practitioners or visiting scholars. For more information on Bridge Program funding go to http://www.bridge.ubc.ca/funding/funding.asp
