Financial Aid for Masters Degrees
MTS/M.Div./B.Th. Scholarships & Prizes
External Scholarship Competitions (OGS & SSHRC)
Lay Certificate of Continuing Education
Links to Other Scholarship & Bursaries
MTS/M.Div. Financial Aid
The Faculty of Theology offers financial aid/bursaries to M.Div. and MTS students on the basis of need with attention to the guidelines of the Association of Theological Schools. Request applications at right or download the form here. Full-time M.Div. or MTS students in any year of the programs should submit an application by May 31 for assistance in the coming year. In considering applications, first priority will be given to students sponsored by a diocese of the Anglican Communion; others will receive assistance only if sufficient funds are available.
Part-time M.Div. or MTS students may apply for reimbursement of up to 50% of course tuition fees in light of low income cut-off levels for part-time students established by the Canada Study Grants program. Applications are due September 15 (for first term courses) and January 15 (for second term courses).
Faculty Scholarships & Prizes
MTS, M.Div. Students
These students are awarded automatically by the Faculty of Theology Committee and are usually announced at the end of the school year. There are currently 13 such prizes/scholarships awarded (and 1 B.Th.), with the prizes ranging from $150 to $3,000.
- Fisher Scholarships for 1st-year and 2nd-year M.Div. students with highest averages
- Faculty of Theology Prize for Academic Distinction for a graduating student
- Irish Benevolent Society Prizes (Archdeacon Alford Abraham Prize for Homiletics; Canon Maurice Farr Prize for Pastoral Care, The Rev. Captain Bill Bennett Prize for a Mature Student)
- Luxton Prize in New Testament
- The John Morden Scholarship for the full-time, returning student who contributed most to the spiritual life and welfare of the College
- Brotherhood of Anglican Churchmen Scholarship in Old Testament Archbishop Peers Prize in Biblical Languages
- The Rev. Dr. D. Jay Koyle Prize in Liturgics
- The Very Rev. Leslie B. Jenkins Prize in Systematic Theology
- St. Mark's by-the-Lake Scholarship for Christian Leadership for a full-time second year MTS or M.Div. student
-
B.Th. Students
Interested B.Th. students, who qualify for financial aid, should apply to the Dean of Theology by mid-April for the following bursary. Announcement is usually made at the M.Div./MTS convocation in May.
- Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem Bursary for a senior Bachelor of Theology student making contributions to community life
MA Financial Aid
Currently, the program offers a $2,000 bursary per academic Term to full-time students, for the six terms of the program. No application is necessary. This support can be supplemented by earnings from graduate-level employment, typically at the rate of $15 per hour to a maximum of 10 hours per week, for instance as a Research or Marking Assistant. This support is available both to home and to international students. A $500 bursary per term is currently given to qualifying part-time students (no application required).
Fall 2011 External Scholarship Competitions
OGS (Ontario Graduate Scholarship)
Theology Program Deadline: Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Your completed application, with references, transcripts must be submitted to the Faculty of Theology office by this date. (UWO transcripts will be supplied for you.) You may want the office to take a look at the submission before you press the "submit" button on the online application.
Details about the competition here. (Look under "External Funding.")
SSHRC (Social Science & Humanities Research Council)
Theology Program Deadline: Monday, October 31, 2011.
Your completed application, with references, transcripts must be submitted to the Faculty of Theology office by this date. (UWO transcripts will be supplied for you.) You may want the office to take a look at the submission before you press the "submit" button on the online application.
Details about the competition here. (Look under "External Funding.")
For Lay Certificate or Continuing Education
Financial aid may be available from your diocese or denomination or from your parish.
Other Scholarships & Bursaries to investigate
The Anglican Foundation of Canada
The Ivor Norris Bursary
Awarded by the Anglican Ordinariate of the Canadian Forces to applicants sponsored by a Bishop for Ordination within the Anglican Church of Canada and enrolled in full time theological studies, who have a personal connection to the Canadian Forces through personal military service (past or present), being married to or the child of someone with such service. Applications are usually in the Theology Office or posted on the student bulletin board and are due October 31.
Knights Templar Charitable Foundation of Canada
for 2nd and 3rd year students click here
The Fund for Theological Education
A listing of many North American sources--click here
The Leonard Foundation
Order of the Eastern Star, Eastern Star Award for Religious Leadership
Contact your local Eastern Star branch.
Martin Moser Society for Theological Studies Bursary Fund
A bursary of 3,000 to honour Father Martin Moser, for a lay man or women of any Christian denomination enrolled in a degree at a recognized Canadian theological school, not preparing for ordained ministry, but to exercise his/her ministry in the church in Canada.