Candidates who are eligible for domestic tuition fees at the PhD level are nominated for this award by their department during their PhD application. MEDA awardees receive $27,000 each year for four academic years for a total value of $108,000.

Candidates who are eligible for international tuition fees at the PhD level are nominated for this award by their department during their PhD application.

MEITA awardees starting as PhD1 will pay 4 academic years of tuition at the “PhD Full-Time” rate. They are awarded $38,300 each year for 4 academic years with a total award value of $153,200.

MEITA awardees starting as PhD2 pay 3 academic years of tuition at the “PhD Full-Time” rate until they are finished their program residency. In their fourth year of full-time study, awardees who started as PhD2 will pay tuition at the “Additional Thesis Session” rate. These awardees receive $38,300 for 3 academic years. In their fourth year they will receive $22,500. This is adjusted due to the fourth year’s tuition decrease.

The Vadasz Engineering Fellowship was established in 2006 by the Vadasz Family Foundation to recruit outstanding domestic students into the Faculty of Engineering's doctoral programs. With the generous support from the Vadasz Scholars Program, future engineering leaders will gain the expertise and skills needed to solve problems that matter.

Candidates who are eligible for domestic tuition fees are nominated for this award by their department during their PhD application. Awardees receive $32,000 per academic year for 4 years, which amounts to a total of $128,000.

Leveraged awards are Faculty Awards that are adjusted due to the awardee receiving further awards such as NSERC, CIHR, SSHRC, FRQ, etc. Leveraged awards are only available for the duration of the Faculty Award, as indicated in the original award letter from the Faculty of Engineering and the student’s department. For example: If a student receives a FRQNT B2X award in year 4, then only year 4 of the Faculty Award will be leveraged. Funding from the Faculty will discontinue at the end of that year.

The following information on leveraged awards and adjustments only applies to students who started in or after Winter 2024 (except for those who deferred their admission to Winter 2024). Students who require clarification on the adjustment of their Faculty Award are asked to contact graduatestudies.engineering [at] mcgill.ca.

Leveraged MEDA - Domestic

The Faculty of Engineering offers top-up awards to international students who are commencing a doctoral program in engineering and who have received an external fellowship from their home country's government e.g. China Scholarship Council, etc. (full list available upon request). The top-up value is dependent on the value and duration of the external award. Top-ups are a minimum of $5,000 each year, for the duration of the foreign government award. No application is required for this award. Please contact your department and inform them of your external award.

Foreign government funded doctoral scholarship programs include:

• Chile (Becas Chile): http://www.conicyt.cl/becasconicyt/
• China: (China Scholarship Council)
• Columbia (ICETEX): https://portal.icetex.gov.co/portal
• Ecuador (Universidades de Excelencia): http://programasbecas.educacionsuperior.gob.ec/listado-de-universidades-de-excelencia-2017/
• Germany (German Academic Exchange Service): https://www.daad.de/en/
• Libya (Libyan-North American Scholarship Program): http://cbie.ca/what-we-do/current-programs/libyan-north-american-scholarship/
• Mexico (CONACYT): https://www.conacyt.gob.mx/
• Norway (Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education): https://www.siu.no/eng
• Russia (The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation): http://xn--80abucjiibhv9a.xn--p1ai/
• Qatar (Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani Scholarship; Tamim Bin Hamad Scholarship): http://www.edu.gov.qa/En/ServicesCenter/Pages/Supported-Universities.aspx
• Saudi Arabia (King Abdullah Scholarship Program): https://www.saudibureau.org/en/inside.php?ID=16
• United States (Fulbright Association): http://fulbright.org/
• Vietnam (Vietnam Education Foundation): https://home.vef.gov/

Please note: These funding numbers came into effect in Winter 2024

The McGill Faculty of Engineering is committed to increasing the diversity of the Canadian workforce by increasing the number of underrepresented populations in the engineering profession. As part of our efforts to encourage, mentor, support and enhance the preparation of tomorrow’s diverse leaders, the Faculty of Engineering has created the Indigenous and Black Engineering and Technology (IBET) Momentum Fellowship to attract and financially support domestic applicants who identify as Indigenous* or Black.

This prestigious Fellowship will provide financial support of $33,000 per year for 4 academic years for McGill University recipients. This funding support will allow recipients to pursue advanced degrees and undertake both traditional and/or non-traditional areas of research without incurring financial hardship.

This Fellowship is intended to help build and support an equitable environment that is reflective of Canada’s population and reconcile the under-representation of Indigenous and Black scholars at McGill University. An integral component of the IBET Momentum Fellowship will be access to mentorship and community-wide support.

*For the purposes of this Fellowship, an Indigenous person is a person who self-identifies as First Nations (Status/Non-Status), Métis, or Inuit as defined in the Canadian Constitution Act 1982.

Eligibility

To be eligible for this award applicants must:

• Be a Canadian citizen or Permanent Resident of Canada who self-identifies as being Indigenous or Black.
• Meet the minimum admission requirements (normally a cumulative GPA of 3.0) for their chosen Faculty of Engineering PhD program.
• Be admitted into the PhD program. Direct entry (from Bachelors) Ph.D. applicants may also be considered for the Fellowship.

Selection Process

• Candidates should indicate to their PhD supervisor that they are eligible for the IBET MEDA; supervisors will submit nominations to the Faculty during the Faculty Awards selection process (February and November each year). No additional application is required.
• Candidates will be selected based on combined undergraduate + Masters CGPA (or undergraduate GPA only for direct entry candidates).

Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS) allocates DFWs to McGill University faculties for international Doctoral students, and exceptionally to international thesis master’s students. Only international students who are allocated a DFW, by their respective faculties, are exempt from paying the international tuition supplement.

The Faculty of Engineering assigns DFWs as part of the Faculty Awards process. Only international students who are receiving faculty awards (MEUSMA, MEITA and MEDA International) might be assigned a DFW. The value of the original award will remain the same, regardless of if a student is assigned a DFW.

Value

For 2024/2025, the value of the DFW is as follows:

• Master's - $17,352.51
• PhD - $15,272.40

Eligibility

DFWs are restricted to international graduate students at McGill whose visa status requires them to pay full international tuition fees. Recipients must be:

• Registered with a full-time status for the Fall and Winter semesters. Must be registered as “continuing” for the Summer.
• Within Curriculum Year 1-3 (for Ph.D.) or Curriculum Year 1 (for thesis master’s). See Student Advising Transcript.

Please note that if a student withdraws or is withdrawn from McGill University during the eligibility period, the DFW may be revoked. Removal of the DFW will result in the student having to pay full international student fees for the term in question. Students in a qualifying year or additional session are not eligible. Students in "privatized" programs are not eligible. Eligible international students are automatically considered by their academic unit. Since DFWs are awarded based exclusively on unit nomination, there are no application forms provided/required.

Replaced by new MEITA funding structure as of Winter 2025

Candidates for this award are nominated by their department during their PhD2 application. Awardees receive $42,000 each year for three academic years and $27,000 in the fourth year. This amounts to a total value of $153,000.

Replaced by new MEITA funding structure as of Winter 2025

Candidates for this award are nominated by their department during their PhD1 application. Awardees receive $42,000 each year for four academic years with a total value of $168,000.