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Scholarships

Global Excellence Award

This award is available to all international applicants to a graduate program at University of Niagara Falls Canada beginning their studies in Fall Term (Oct) 2025, and beyond. This award provides matching net tuition fees between Year 1 and Year 2 of their studies.

Award Amount

Award disbursement will begin after the registration period has closed in Term 1 of a student’s program. For a student to remain eligible and receive award funding, they must maintain a good academic standing according to their program’s specific grading scheme.

Please review Terms and Conditions for entrance awards below.

Canadian Experience Entrance Award

This award is available to international applicants who have been residing in Canada for at least one year prior to applying and are submitting their application to undergraduate or graduate programs to UNF from within Canada. Applications must be submitted no later than Dec. 31, 2026, with studies commencing in a term that begins before or during the 2027 calendar year.

Details
Award disbursement will begin after the registration period has closed in Term 1 of a student’s program. 
Please review Terms and Conditions for entrance awards below.

Academic Achievement Entrance Award

This award is available to all international applicants to the University of Niagara Falls Canada in our undergraduate and graduate programs who meet the following cumulative grade point averages (CGPA) based on their academic history.

Award Amounts

Note: the CGPA calculation is based on conversion to the North American grading scheme and not the prior institution grading scheme.

Details
The award is disbursed from Term 2 after the term balance is paid. The first portion applies as a tuition credit toward Term 3. Should an applicant qualify for multiple entrance awards, the larger award will be applied to the applicant’s account; this entrance award cannot be combined with other regional entrance awards.

Please review Terms and Conditions for entrance awards below.

Entrance Awards Terms and conditions

Students are required to remain in good academic standing, according to their programs specific grading scheme, term over term to continue receiving funding.

• Should a student fall below the margin, but remain active in their program the following term and recover their term GPA to once again be declared as in good academic standing, they are eligible to once again receive the funding (not for the previously missed term; only moving forward for future terms)
• Students must remain actively enrolled in their program, in a full-time capacity.
• Should a student withdraw from their program/term after funds are dispersed, any awarded funds for the current term will be returned to the institution in accordance to the below conditions:
  • Student withdraws prior to deadline – while the award should not be dispersed at this time, if for any reason it has, its returned in full as the student would be receiving a full refund less $500 administrative fee.
  • Student withdraws after registration deadline, but prior to academic deadline (receives W grade), student receives pro-rated refund of the amount they've paid depending on calculated days, and the awarded funds to be returned to the institution in full.
  • Student withdraws after the 50% deadline of term, no funds are returned to student and while we would not be able to recoup any award, the student would not qualify for the next term regardless of academic scenario.
• All scholarships, bursaries and awards are subject to change without prior notice. If the allocated pool of financial support is fully utilized by the eligible applicants before the end of the award program’s validity, the award offer may be withdrawn - unless you have already received an official Letter of Acceptance.