Resources for Students with Refugee Background
Undergraduate Students
Internal Resources
If you are a domestic student with a refugee background, you may want to explore these opportunities:
- SFU Financial Aid & Awards include bursaries, loans, and work-study programs
- Uggla Family Scholarship for students with EDI background
- SFSS & WUSC scholarship for domestic students with refugee background
Other External Resources
- beedieluminaries.ca/rise-scholarship. Scholarships for Refugees and New Immigrants in BC
- Horatio Alger Canadian Scholarships
- PIRS Educational Bursary
- TELUS Student Bursary
- Eyob G. Naizghi Scholarship Award
- MOSAIC Educational Enhancement Award
- ISSofBC Education Bursary Awards
- Ann & Jo-Ann Sobkow Award
- Canadian Council for Refugees - scholarships for refugee students
- Scholarships for women in STEM
- Ten scholarships for Women in Canada https://grantme.ca/10-scholarships-for-women-in-canada/
- Ike Barber Transfer Scholarship
- BC Hydro Power Pioneers Community Service Award
- BC Housing Education Awards Program
- Soroptimist Live Your Dream Award - women
- Telesat Women in Engineering & Technology Scholarship
- EFC Scholarships for Women
- CFUW Surrey/White Rock Bursary- women
- PIRS Educational Bursary: for immigrant and refugee women
Graduate Students
SFU Financial Aid & Awards
- Graduate Bursaries: need-based funding
- Work-Study: paid on-campus jobs
- Loans & Grants: through StudentAid BC
Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies (apply through GA3)
- Internal + Donor Funded Awards: SFU and donor awards by department
- Tri-Agency & Government Awards: CGRS, BC Graduate Scholarships, Trudeau
- External + Additional Awards: 100+ outside awards by field
External Awards
- Rhodes Scholarship: graduate study at Oxford; open to refugees
- IDRC Doctoral Research Awards: doctoral field research
- Vancity Community Foundation: for those most affected by inequity
- NEADS and AMI Scholarship: students with disabilities
For Women
- SWAAC Graduate Student Award: nominated through Graduate Studies
- Mary B. Jordan YVR Scholarship: women in business master’s programs
- Order of the White Rose: women in graduate engineering
Community Awards
- MOSAIC Educational Enhancement Award: newcomers and refugees
- Eyob G. Naizghi Scholarship: female refugees
- ISSofBC Education Bursary Awards: ISSofBC clients
- Windmill Microlending: low-interest education loans
External Scholarships
External scholarships are available on the SFU website for all students - you need to apply to each separately. There are around 250 scholarships for different programs. Visit FAA External for more info.