Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund

The Trustees of the Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund (CCSF) are pleased to announce the availability of funds for a number of £5,000 scholarship awards to Canadian citizens for the academic year commencing September 2025.

These awards are for academic and artistic studies in the UK, and are exclusively for students who have already commenced their multi-year studies in the UK. Around 14 awards will be made. The CCSF celebrated its 50th year in 2017 and is proud to have awarded, since 1967, more than £1,600,000 to over 600 talented Canadians studying across multiple disciplines from music, creative art and design to science (including health research and computing science), engineering, social science and the humanities.

Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund 2025 - Poster

Each scholarship will amount to £5,000.


To be eligible to apply for a CCSF award, an applicant must:

  • Be a Canadian citizen with a valid Canadian passport: proof of Canadian citizenship is required in the form of a pdf of the main page of your valid passport.
  • Have lived in Canada.
  • Be currently enrolled full-time in a multi-year postgraduate programme and be intending to enroll full-time from September 2025. At the time of application, applicants must be attending a UK university or similar institution, and have completed at least one full time term of study at the time of application. (Applicants undertaking a one-year programme are not eligible.)
  • Be able to demonstrate academic excellence.
  • Require funds to complete their studies.
  • Previous applicants may re-apply. The CCSF offers a maximum of two scholarships to any one individual.

For further information and the link to the application site visit Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund


Applications for the 2025-2026 academic year are now open.

A link to the online application system is be available from: Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund

The deadline for applications is midnight on  Friday 14th March 2025.

Online interviews for candidates who are short-listed will be held on Tuesday 20th May 2025. Students must make themselves available for interview to be eligible. Participation in the online interview does not guarantee an award.


Please send any enquiries to: scholarship@canadianscholarshipfund.co.uk


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