Awards & grants
Financial suppport for graduate students
The university and School offer, on a competitive basis, a limited number of scholarships, teaching assistantships, and research assistantships. Submit your application by December 1 to be automatically considered for all types of assistance.
Fountain Graduate Fellowships
The Fountain School of Performing Arts offers a limited number of Fountain Graduate Fellowships to incoming MA students who demonstrate excellence in academic scholarship. Candidates with aÌýminimum A- GPA, equivalent to a ÍøºìºÚÁÏ GPA of 3.7 will be prioritized. All applicants who have applied by December 1 will be considered. For further information, please contact the Associate Director, Graduate Studies & Research at adresgrd@dal.ca.
Institutional and national scholarships
Some institutional and national scholarships require a separate application. The most common scholarships are:
Scholarship | Availability | Nomination deadline |
---|---|---|
Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-M)* |
National | November |
Vanier Scholarship | National | October |
Killam Scholarship** | Institutional | January |
Nova Scotia Graduate Scholarship (NSGS)** | Institutional | January |
Ìý | Ìý | Ìý |
* All Canadian applicants are strongly encouraged to apply for a Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-M). In order to be nominated for a Master's-level Killam fellowship, applicants have to have applied to CGS-M or, in the case of international applicants, its equivalent.
** To be considered for departmental funding, all applicants must complete ÍøºìºÚÁÏ's Harmonized Scholarship Process (HSP), which allows students to apply for both the Killam and the NSGS (and others) with one application.Ìý
Find outÌýhow to apply
MA Musicology specificÌýApplication info and Admission RequirementsÌýfound here.