Financial support for undergraduates

By declaring your major, you make yourself eligible for department scholarships and bursaries. So go to Academic Advising and take this important first step to finding a departmental home.

Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards

Outstanding upper-year students can apply for a prestigious Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award worth $1500. These scholarships allow excellent students to do research in their chosen discipline under the supervision of a professor who is an expert in the field.

Departmental academic awards

If you earn high marks in your courses, you may win one of many academic awards held by your department. There is no need to apply, but you should register your major, because many such awards are only offered to students registered in specific disciplines.

Bursaries

Once you are at UVic, consider applying for a bursary, which is a non-repayable award based on financial need and sound academic standing.

Student loans

Students may also apply for repayable government student loans.

Work study

If you hold a student loan, you may be able to work off part the loan while at UVic and while gaining valuable work experience. Check out the Work Study program, which allows you to work in your field of study for up to 340 hours per year.

Faculty awards

Our faculty offers a number of awards to promote student research and travel in academic areas:

Margaret and Richard Beck Student Research Travel Award

One award of up to $6,000 for travel to Iceland for research or study purposes. 

For additional details, please contact your departmental advisor or email humsassistant@uvic.ca.

Deadline: December 15 

Andrew Rippin Memorial Scholarship

One or more scholarships are awarded to academically outstanding undergraduate students who are focusing on the study of religion and are enrolled in a program offered by the Faculty of Humanities.

For additional details, please contact your departmental advisor or email humsassistant@uvic.ca.

Deadline: May 15 

Peter G. Liddell Humanities Computing Award

One or more awards of up to $1,000 for undergraduate students with minimum third-year standing or to graduate students who have completed a project in a course or thesis in the Humanities that makes a significant creative or innovative contribution to humanities computing.

For additional details, please contact your departmental advisor or email humsassistant@uvic.ca.

Deadline: EXTENDED TO MAY 1

Elias Mandel Award for Study Abroad in the Humanities

Award(s) of up to $6,000 available for undergraduate students registered in the Faculty of Humanities who are studying abroad through courses, field schools, or programs offered or recognized by the Faculty of Humanities.

For additional details, please contact your departmental advisor or email humsassistant@uvic.ca.

Deadline: Feb 28

Faculty of Humanities Travel and Learning Scholarship

One or more scholarships are awarded to academically outstanding undergraduate students in the Faculty of Humanities to assist with regional, national or international travel outside of Southern Vancouver Island (defined as the area south of Nanaimo and not including any of the Gulf Islands) in relation to a UVic course in the Faculty of Humanities. Coursework can be part of an exchange, study abroad, field school or co-op placement in a program supported by a program in the Faculty. 

We actively encourage nominations of candidates from groups with historical and/or current barriers to equity, including, but not limited to: 

  • First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples, and all other Indigenous peoples;
  • members of groups that commonly experience discrimination due to race, ethnicity, ancestry, colour, religion and/or spiritual beliefs, or place of origin;
  • persons with a visible and/or invisible disability;
  • women; and
  • persons of marginalized sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions.

The adjudication committee must consider equity and diversity when making its deliberations. All disclosures to the committee are confidential.

Applications must include: 

  1. a budget for the amount requested (maximum $1000);
  2. a statement of no more than 350 words describing the purpose of the coursework and its relevance to the student's program of study; and
  3. one letter of support from appropriate instructors familiar with the student's academic work.

All application materials should be addressed and submitted to the Associate Dean Academic, Faculty of Humanities at humsassistant@uvic.ca. Please ensure that your application includes all of the

For additional information, please contact the Faculty of Humanities, Dean's Office at 250-472-4677 or humsassistant@uvic.ca. 

Deadline: March 1, 2024 (for summer travel) and June 3, 2024 (for fall or winter travel)