Financial Support
The Department of Zoology has a minimum funding policy for all graduate students accepted into the program.
Support will be in the form of a combination of teaching assistantships (TA), awards/scholarships (excludes any tuition waiver), or research assistantships (GRA) paid from the supervisor’s research grants.
For students starting their graduate program in 2010-11, the minimum level of support is $21,000 (MSc and PhD students).**
- Support will be provided for 2 years for MSc students.
- Support will be provided for 4 years for PhD students. For those PhD students who started their graduate program from September 2011 onwards, there will be a possibility of an additional 5th year of funding providing that satisfactory progress in the program has been made.
- For students who transfer from a MSc to a PhD support will be 5 years in total.
- All financial support is contingent on satisfactory performance and subject to yearly review.
- To achieve the minimum level of support a student may be required to TA.
2011-12 salary rates for Graduate Teaching Assistants are as follows:
- Full-time GTA-1 (PhD student) is $11,342/winter term*
- Full-time GTA-2 (MSc student) is $10,914/winter term*
- *A full TA position involves 384 hours during the winter term (September to April)
**For students who started their graduate program before May 2010, the minimum annual level of support for MSc students is $19,010, for PhD students $19,702.
See also Awards Deadlines
Fees
Assessed tuition fees for 2011-12 are $4,263.87 (Canadian) and $7,490.88 international).
All International students are eligible for an International Partial Tuition Scholarship.
In addition all students are responsible for paying student fees (approx $950/year).