Income

You can expect to be paid between $19,000 and $21,000 per year for the duration of your program.

This is made up of what we call a “guaranteed stipend” plus potential funding from other sources that may vary each year, but is currently approximately $1500 (subject to Faculty approval). Hence, your total gross income is about $20,500 per year.

The source of these funds varies for students. Most of the stipend comes directly from a supervisor’s research grant. Some students are also required to apply for a Teaching Assistant (TA) position and, as such, part of their stipend comes from a central TA budget. What this means is that if you are a TA, you do not get any more money than the guaranteed stipend.

Tuition and Student Fees

Tuition and student fees are currently as shown in the table below.

International Partial Tuition Scholarship

International Partial Tuition Scholarships assist international graduate students with their tuition fees if they are registered full-time in research-oriented master’s and doctoral programs. Students in Pharmaceutical Sciences receive an International Partial Tuition Scholarship of $3,200 per year.

Eligibility for Other Sources of Funding

• Link to Cost of Living (PDF 12KB) on Vancouver
• Link to Financial Planning Worksheet (PDF 151KB) to help you plan for your time in Graduate School.

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