Deadlines for this scholarship
An award closing is only the first of the dates that matter. After it there is the deposit that keeps your place, the unconditional offer the funder wants to see before it pays, and a last day to arrive and register. Where the funder publishes none of these, the row says so — a blank is what the official page actually says, not something we have left out.
No closing date published. This funder sets its closing date per country, or opens the call only when the cycle begins. Send us your documents and we will apply the moment your country’s window opens.
Who can apply
Open to international applicants - up to 15% of awards reserved for them - but you must be registered in a doctoral program at an eligible Canadian institution by the application deadline.
What the award is
The Government of Canada doctoral award (NSERC, SSHRC and CIHR) that replaced the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships, and the Vanier site now points students here. International students are eligible alongside Canadian citizens, permanent residents and protected persons, but they must already be registered in a doctoral program at an eligible Canadian university, so admission to a Canadian PhD comes first and the file goes through that university's internal competition; the agency-side closing date shown on the page is 17 October each year (the 17 October 2026 round has passed, so the next competition is autumn 2027). Official source: https://nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/funding-opportunity/canada-graduate-research-scholarship-doctoral-program (checked 29 October 2026).Where these dates came from
NSERC's CGRS-D page sets the agency deadline at 8:00 p.m. (ET) on 17 October; the 2026-competition round closed on 17 October 2026, before our check date, and no date is published yet for the next competition, so the row is blank — https://nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/funding-opportunity/canada-graduate-research-scholarship-doctoral-program (checked 30 October 2026). Candidates registered at a Canadian university apply through that institution, whose internal deadline may be 'well in advance of the agency deadline'; only those eligible to apply directly use the agency portal.
Deadlines move. Always confirm on the funder's own page before you book anything — the link above is where we read it.
