The Ontario Trillium Scholarships were announced by the provincial government in November and we have just recently received the details needed to put our internal process in place for the 2011-12 competition.
The Ontario Trillium Scholarships (OTS) program is a significant initiative to attract more of the best qualified international students to Ontario for PhD studies. Each OTS will be worth $40,000 annually to recipient PhD students, and is renewable for four years.The University of Guelph allocation is 4 scholarships. Academic merit is the defining criterion for the selection of OTS recipients by institutions. OTS recipients must have achieved a minimum first-class (A-) average, as determined by each university, in each of the two years of full-time study prior to awarding of the OTS. International applicants for admission in the Fall 2011 or Winter 2012 are eligible for this competition. Please see the attached document on the OTS process for further eligibility criteria. It is important to note that this scholarship is not available to students currently studying at an Ontario post-secondary institution at either the undergraduate or graduate level.
The deadline date for departments to submit their nominations to their College Dean's Office is March 31, 2011.
