Scholarships/awards for Canadians studying outside Canada

[Aminoacidalanine]

Just wondering if the SSHRC doctoral award is portable to the US? I read about the eligibility and conditions on their website but I could not see this information. Are there other awards besides the Tricouncil ones that we may be eligible for?

Thanks so much for your help!

[TakeruK]

You can take the NSERC doctoral award outside of the country---but with a bunch of conditions: most prominently, there are two levels of the NSERC doctoral award at 21,000 CAD/year and 35,000 CAD/year and you can only take the lower level award out of Canada (if you get the higher award, you can decline it and receive the lower award). For NSERC, the rules are in the "Awards Holder Guide" and when I looked up the same phrase with SSHRC, I get to this page: http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/using-utiliser/guides-eng.aspx

There seems to be a version for "SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship award holders registered at foreign institutions" so it seems like the answer is yes? I don't know the SSHRC award values, but with NSERC, if you are going to a US school, they pay you the CAD equivalent in US dollars, and you have to factor in the exchange rate! Because this can change during the course of your award/degree, you should ensure that whatever financial package you're getting from your school takes this into account. Since my NSERC award did not cover my entire stipend, my school agreed to pay me whatever amount necessary to bring my total stipend to the standard level. I bring in my award cheque stubs every 6 months and they recalculate their contribution to my stipend based on how much NSERC paid due to the changing exchange rate.

The only other award I was aware of (and applied to) for study in the US was the Fulbright Traditional Student Award. You apply for this through the Fulbright Canada office. It's only a 9 month award (at $15,000) and it will require you to be on J-1 status with potential for requiring a 2 year home residency requirement because it's federal funding (but maybe this can be waived). 

There may be additional field specific awards that others in this sub-forum could help with, but I think the Tricouncil and the Fulbright are the only wide-reaching awards from Canada that specifically allow (or designed for) Canadians to study in the US.