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Graduate funding in Canada
Sep. 15th, 2007 09:17 pmCanadian Graduate Scholarships are distributed by three agencies:
NSERC, which handles physical sciences and engineering
CIHR, which handles health related research
SSHRC, which handles humanities andarts social sciences related research.
SSHRC receives 60% of the funds distributed by this program.
This seems ludicrous. I would have expected it to be a third at most.
I'm wondering if maybe this is because graduate students in science, engineering, and health research receive some other form of funding directly from their universities. Edit: Do most or even many graduate students in science, engineering, and health research receive stipends similar to those at US universities? (i.e. ranging from tuition+16K to tuition+24K)
If not, WTF?
I suppose I shouldn't complain, since next year I might be a beneficiary of SSHRC's generous portion of this pie. But this distribution just doesn't seem right.
NSERC, which handles physical sciences and engineering
CIHR, which handles health related research
SSHRC, which handles humanities and
SSHRC receives 60% of the funds distributed by this program.
This seems ludicrous. I would have expected it to be a third at most.
I'm wondering if maybe this is because graduate students in science, engineering, and health research receive some other form of funding directly from their universities. Edit: Do most or even many graduate students in science, engineering, and health research receive stipends similar to those at US universities? (i.e. ranging from tuition+16K to tuition+24K)
If not, WTF?
I suppose I shouldn't complain, since next year I might be a beneficiary of SSHRC's generous portion of this pie. But this distribution just doesn't seem right.
