Admission Awards
Your admission application must be complete – including all checklist items - by February 2, 2024 in order to be considered for an Admission award.
Scholarship Application required
Lassonde International Graduate Scholarship in Mining
The awards will be made to graduate-level international students associated with the Lassonde Mining Institute.
Application Deadline: February 16, 2025
Notification: April 2025
Award amount: minimum of $8,000
How to Apply
- Complete online form
- Submit the following in a single pdf file to civ.gradprograms@utoronto.ca:
- C.V., including your previous degree(s), list of journal and conference publications, previous awards, and scholarships received.
- unofficial transcripts from all previous and in-progress post-secondary education
- Request 1 letter of support from a university-affiliated referee who is familiar with your academic career. Please ask this referee to email their letter of recommendation to civ.gradprograms@utoronto.ca
Eligibility to hold the Award
Successful applicants must accept an offer of admission and register with the University of Toronto in either September 2025 or January 2026.
Scholarship inquiries may be directed to civ.gradprograms@utoronto.ca
Automatically considered (no scholarship application required)
Alan Tonks Scholarship in Transportation Engineering
To be awarded annually to Civil Engineering Master’s or Ph.D. students from the Transportation Engineering Program on the basis of financial need. Academic merit may also be considered.
James Armstrong Civil Engineering Graduate Scholarship
To be awarded annually to one or more domestic or international doctoral stream graduate students in the Department of Civil Engineering. Preferably to be used as an admission scholarship. To be awarded at the discretion of the Department Chair.
In-course Awards:
For graduate students registered at the University of Toronto
Scholarship Application required
Current students will be provided application instructions via U of T email when applications are being accepted.
DiDi Graduate Awards
To be awarded to incoming or continuing graduate students on the basis of academic merit. Additional criteria may be established by the respective graduate unit
James L. Gordon - Hydro Traveler Graduate Award
The James L. Gordon - Hydro Traveler Graduate Award is awarded each year to a graduate student enrolled in the Master of Engineering degree program in the Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering or in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. Applicants must have completed APS1410 or APS141 (Waterpower Essentials or equivalent) and be in good academic standing.
Applicants must provide a statement of their interest in and intent to register in the Waterpower emphasis and an indication of their commitment to Waterpower/hydropower as a career pursuit.
Applications accepted each year from January to March.
Professor Barry J. Adams Graduate Fellowship
To be awarded each year to a graduate student in the Department of Civil Engineering, having been recommended by the Department’s faculty leadership. This award will be based on academic merit, preferably based on demonstrated performance in hydraulics, hydrology and/or municipal water systems engineering where possible.
Doctoral Completion Award: Civil Engineering
To be awarded to full-time PhD students in good academic standing who are within time-limit but are no longer receiving the normal funding package from their graduate unit in the year in which they are applying. Criteria may include but are not limited to: academic merit and quality of research; the availability of alternative funding; financial need; special features of the research program that require more time than usual. Application deadline for 24-25 academic year: July 15, 2024. Contact civ.gradprograms@utoronto.ca for more information.
Nomination required
Students selected by their supervisors will be provided with instructions for completing any required application components.
Lassonde Institute Graduate Fellowship in Entrepreneurship and Engineering
To be awarded on the basis of academic merit to a graduate student enrolled in the Department of Civil Engineering, and specializing in Engineering Geoscience at the Lassonde Institute, within the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.
Friends of the Lassonde Institute Graduate Fellowship
To be awarded on the basis of academic merit to a graduate student enrolled in the Department of Civil Engineering, and specializing in Engineering Geoscience at the Lassonde Institute, within the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.
Grosso Group Graduate Fellowship
To be awarded on the basis of academic merit to a graduate student enrolled in the Department of Civil Engineering, and specializing in Engineering Geoscience at the Lassonde Institute, within the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.
William Trow Scholarship
To be awarded to the top student in his/her first year of a Master's program in geotechnical engineering.
James R. Zimmerman Memorial Graduate Award
To be awarded on the basis of academic merit and a demonstrated ability for advanced research to a first year PhD student affiliated with the Lassonde Institute, within the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. If no suitable candidate is found in any given year, the award will not be made that year and one or two may be awarded the following year.
Automatically considered (no scholarship application required)
Canadian Automobile Association (CAA) Graduate Scholarship in Transportation Engineering
To be awarded to one or more registered graduate student(s) in transportation engineering in the Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering who demonstrate academic excellence and undertake advanced research relating, but not limited to, any one of the following areas: alternative vehicle technologies and sustainable transportation, such as active transportation like walking and bicycling; intelligent transportation systems, such as dynamic congestion charging and adaptive signal technologies; transportation development planning, including financing, road infrastructure, planning and development; and transportation-related advocacy and policy information.
Dr. Mazen Hassounah Graduate Scholarship in Mass Events Transportation and Crowd Management
To be awarded annually to one or more domestic or preferably international graduate students in the Department of Civil Engineering who are undertaking advanced research in Transportation Engineering, with a preference for the area of Mass Events Transportation and Crowd Management. The candidate will demonstrate academic excellence and a strong commitment to pursuing innovative solutions to the most pressing transportation problems facing urban centres world-wide, with a preference for focus placed on problems associated with mass events (e.g. Hajj and Umrah in Makkah)
Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering Graduate Student Endowment Fund (GSEF)
To be awarded to doctoral-stream graduate students in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering based on academic merit. No discipline or citizenship restrictions.
Fortran Traffic Systems Graduate Scholarship in Transportation Research
To be awarded to a student in the doctoral stream in the Department of Civil Engineering. Preference will be given to a student in Transportation Engineering, with additional preference to a student specializing in Intelligent Transportation Systems research.
Frank Howard Guest Graduate Bursary
Awards will be made to students enrolled in any graduate program in the Faculty in any Department on the basis of academic standing and financial need on the recommendation of the Graduate Co-ordinator.
Heavy Construction Assoc. of Toronto Graduate Scholarship in IT in Construction and Infrastructure
To be given to a doctoral stream student in the Department of Civil Engineering on the basis of academic merit. To be awarded to a student in Professor El-Diraby's group.
Heavy Construction Association of Toronto Graduate Scholarship in Intelligent Transportation Systems
To be given to a doctoral stream student in the Department of Civil Engineering on the basis of academic merit.
John L. Kellermann Fellowship
To be awarded to a student holding a degree in engineering who, in the opinion of the Chairman of the Department, is most suitable to receive the award, by the fact that the student has an interest in and an aptitude for steel construction.
Professor Gerald Steuart Graduate Scholarship in Transportation Engineering
To be awarded annually to one or more domestic or preferably international graduate students enrolled in the Department of Civil Engineering who are undertaking advanced research in Transportation Engineering in areas such as, but not limited to: airport operations and planning; urban transportation modeling and analysis; and/or data collection methods for estimating urban travel. The candidate will demonstrate academic excellence and a strong commitment to pursuing innovative solutions to pressing transportation problems facing urban centers or airports in any region of the world.
Richard Soberman Graduate Student Fellowships
All awards will be given to students working in the area of Transportation while registered in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering and will be awarded and administered in accordance with the University’s Policy on Student Awards. If no student in the area of Transportation qualifies for the award, the donor agrees that any student registered in Civil Engineering (who qualifies/meets the selection criteria) can be selected to receive the award.
The Wallberg Research Fellowships
Fellows must be graduates of a recognized university who are pursuing advanced study and research in any branch of Engineering and who are enrolled in the School of Graduate Studies as candidates for graduate degrees. No more than one award shall be tenable in any one Engineering Department. Academic merit and financial need will be considered.