Doctoral remissions introduced this fall
As of next September, Concordia will offer tuition remissions to the best and brightest PhD applicants.
“This is an incentive to bring in high-calibre graduate students,” said Danielle Morin, Vice-Provost (Academic Programs). The announcement was made through the Provost’s office at the April 12 Board of Governors meeting.
Starting in the 2006-07 academic year, 100 PhD candidates will receive a full tuition remission over 12 terms.
The remissions will be allocated by the faculties based on the proportion of PhD candidates they currently have.
As a result, Morin said, Engineering and Computer Science and Arts and Science would receive a greater proportion of the remissions. Ten remissions will be held back for a university-wide evaluation through the School of Graduate Studies.
Each faculty will develop internal criteria to determine which applicants are the strongest candidates academically.
With savings to each student of approximately $5,000, this represents an investment of $.5M over four years to help attract the best doctoral students.
Morin added that students were free to pursue other funding sources to alleviate the cost of living.