Level: PhD
Tuition: Full coverage
Finaid max: 18200  USD
Two new fellowships will be offered each year.

The Graduate Global Leadership Fellowships enable promising leaders from developing countries to pursue doctoral studies at UBC. The fellowships are to support international students showing outstanding leadership in humanitarian and development work in their home country.

  • Afghanistan
  • Albania
  • Algeria
  • American Samoa
  • Angola
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bangladesh
  • Belarus
  • Belize
  • Benin
  • Bhutan
  • Bolivia
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Botswana
  • Brazil
  • Bulgaria
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • Cambodia
  • Cameroon
  • Cape Verde
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Chile
  • China
  • Colombia
  • Comoros
  • Costa Rica
  • Cuba
  • Djibouti
  • Dominica
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • El Salvador
  • Eritrea
  • Ethiopia
  • Fiji
  • Gabon
  • Gambia
  • Georgia
  • Ghana
  • Grenada
  • Guatemala
  • Guinea
  • Guyana
  • Haiti
  • Honduras
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Iraq
  • Jamaica
  • Jordan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Kiribati
  • Kosovo
  • Latvia
  • Lebanon
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Libya
  • Lithuania
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Maldives
  • Mali
  • Marshall Islands
  • Mauritania
  • Mauritius
  • Mayotte
  • Mexico
  • Moldova
  • Mongolia
  • Montenegro
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Myanmar
  • Namibia
  • Nepal
  • Nicaragua
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Pakistan
  • Palau
  • Panama
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Romania
  • Russian Federation
  • Rwanda
  • Samoa
  • Senegal
  • Serbia
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Solomon Islands
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • Sri Lanka
  • Sudan
  • Suriname
  • Swaziland
  • Syrian Arab Republic
  • Tajikistan
  • Thailand
  • Timor-Leste
  • Togo
  • Tonga
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Turkmenistan
  • Tuvalu
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • Uruguay
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vanuatu
  • Venezuela
  • Vietnam
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Deadline: n/a

Comments: Feb/10 March (annual). Course starts Jan/May/Sept

  • Accounting
  • Aerospace, Aeronautical & Marine Engineering
  • Agriculture, Forestry, Animal & Related Sciences
  • Animation
  • Anthropology
  • Applied Sciences & Professions
  • Art
  • Art & Art History
  • Astronomy
  • AuPair
  • Behavioral Science
  • Bio & Biomedical Engineering
  • Biology
  • Biomedicine
  • Business
  • Business & Technology
  • Business Administration
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Chemistry
  • Civil & Private Law
  • Civil Engineering, Architecture & Construction
  • Climate Studies & Meteorology
  • Communications
  • Computer Science & IT
  • Criminal Law and Criminology
  • Dentistry
  • Design
  • Development & Social Policy and Planning
  • Earth Sciences
  • Ecology, Biodiversity & Conservation
  • Econometrics
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electronics & Embedded Technology
  • Energy Engineering
  • Engineering & Business
  • Engineering & Technology
  • Engineering Physics
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Environmental Biotechnology
  • Environmental Chemistry & Toxicology
  • Environmental Economics
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Environmental Impacts & Human Health
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Environmental Systems Analysis
  • Ethnic Studies
  • European Law
  • Family and Consumer Science
  • Fashion, Textiles and Luxury goods
  • Film and Theatre Studies
  • Finance
  • Gender Studies
  • Geo-information
  • Geography
  • History
  • Hospitality and Tourism Management
  • Human Medicine
  • Human Resource Management
  • Humanities
  • Hydrology & Water Management
  • Information Science
  • International Law
  • Internship + English
  • Journalism and Mass Communications
  • Language, Literature and Cultural Studies
  • Law
  • Life Sciences, Medicine & Health
  • Management
  • Management & Organisation
  • Marketing studies
  • Materials Engineering
  • Mathematics
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Military Science
  • Music
  • Natural Sciences
  • Nursing
  • Nutrition and Dietetics
  • Pharmacy
  • Philosophy
  • Physics
  • Physiotherapy
  • Political Science & International Relations
  • Project Management
  • Psychology
  • Public Administration
  • Public Health
  • Public Law
  • Religious Studies and Theology
  • Social Sciences
  • Social Work
  • Sociology
  • Soil Science & Soil Ecology
  • Sport
  • Supply Chain Management & Logistics
  • Sustainable Management, Policy & Governance
  • Veterinary Medicine

Finaid max: 18200  USD

Quota: Two new fellowships will be offered each year.

The scholarship value is $18,200 per year plus tuition for four years.

The scholarship value is $18,200 per year plus tuition for four years.

Applicants must:

  • Hold a study permit at the beginning of the fellowship funding period
  • Be a citizen of a developing country (see list of developing countries) at the time of application for admission
  • Have shown outstanding leadership in humanitarian and development work in their home country
  • Be starting a PhD or DMA program at the UBC Vancouver campus in January, May, or September
  • Be starting their first doctoral degree
  • Students with external funding (external scholarships, third-party sponsorship, etc.) are eligible to apply, but if successful, recipients will have their Graduate Global Leadership Fellowship funding reduced by the amount of their external funding