Financial Support

All full-time graduate students in the School of Geography and Earth Sciences, without external support, receive financial support from the University for two years (M.A./M.Sc.) or four years (Ph.D.). Candidates successful in obtaining prestigious external scholarships (e.g. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) normally receive more.

Foreign students studying in Canada on student visas pay higher fees. The University offers tuition bursaries to qualified students.


In addition to a scholarship, students receive a teaching assistantship, in the School's teaching program to a maximum of ten hours per week for each of the 26 weeks of the undergraduate teaching year.

The new tution fees for 2010-2011 and insidental fees are listed at

http://www.mcmaster.ca/bms/student/SAC_fees.htm