Funding, Tuition Fees, and Awards

We offer a funding package to all of our full-time research-stream students. The package is composed of a research assistantship and teaching assistantships. This provides funding for the costs of living and for the cost of tuition.

Guaranteed Funding by Program 

Conditional on satisfactory progress, we guarantee funding for a defined period for each of our programs. 

*17 months funding based on typical registration sequence: FWS-F. Leaves may impact the tuition portion of your funding package.

Department of Computer Science Funding Packages

Basic funding package

The basic funding package includes tuition, research, and teaching assistantships and are based on Faculty of Arts and Science minimums.

Department of Computer Science Enhanced Funding Package

The Department of Computer Science offers an enhanced funding package above the Faculty of Arts and Science Base Funding package. The enhanced package ensure that students have a take-home living allowance of $36,364.00 after tuition and incidentals are paid. This is comprised of research, teaching assistantships, and the Departmental Fellowship.

Departmental Fellowship

The Department will also provide up to $15,000 CAD (for those admitted in 2024–2025). This fellowship does not require any extra duties on your part. Its only purpose is to support your regular activities of research and study in our graduate program. Students in good academic standing must apply for the Departmental Fellowship, which involves informing the Department of Computer Science Graduate Office of the amount and sources of your external scholarships, external stipends, and external paid employment. If you have such income, the amount of your departmental fellowship may be reduced in whole or in part.

Major Scholarships and Awards are a component of the funding package for many students. All graduate students are required to apply for and accept external awards for which they are eligible. The funding package may be revised at any point to include major awards, including retroactive awards and award upgrades, which are received during the timeframe covered by this funding letter. Students are required to report any such financial awards valued at more than $10,000 CAD to the Graduate Office.

Receipts of an external award valued at more than $10,000 may result in a further enhancement to the student’s annual financial support package. For students who win large or multiple concurrent awards, the RAship will be reduced so that either the student's total non-TA funding (including scholarships) is no larger than $54,000, or the RAship has been reduced to zero.

Tuition Fees

Domestic Students (Canadian Citizens and Permanent Residents) — MSc/PhD 

2024–2025 Academic Year
$8,351.53 CAD Incoming PhD students
$9,001.53 CAD Incoming MSc students
Includes incidental and ancillary fees

International Students — PhD

2024-2025 Academic Year
$9,107.53 CAD
Includes incidental and ancillary fees 

Awards 

All accepted students are considered for entrance awards. Recipients will be notified in their offer of admission. 

Significant financial top-ups are offered to holders of certain fellowships and scholarships (CGS M, OGS, etc). 

Internal Awards 

The Department of Computer Science and the University of Toronto are proud to offer entrance awards to outstanding applicants. Prospective students do not need to apply for these awards as they will be nominated by the admissions committee; awards will be included in offer packages. These awards include: 

• C. David Naylor University Fellowship 

• Connaught International Scholarship 

• Departmental Entrance Scholarship 

• Faculty of Arts & Science Top (FAST) Doctoral Fellowship 

• Master's Student Recruitment Award

• Wolfond Scholarship Program in Wireless Information Technology

• and more

External Awards 

Prospective students may apply to these awards prior to receiving an offer from the Department of Computer Science. Please note deadlines below.

Applicants must have completed no more than 4 months of MSc study to qualify. For full eligibility criteria, visit the Canada Graduate Scholarships — Master’s Program website. 

Deadline to submit online is December 2, 2024 by 8 pm.

For further details, please visit, Canada Graduate Scholarships – Doctoral Program. Application to the CGS-D program will automatically include application to the PGS-D program.

Deadline was September 9, 2024.

For further details, visit the SGS Ontario Graduate Scholarship page. 

Deadline to submit to the Department is April 16, 2025.

For further details, visit the SGS Ontario Graduate Scholarship page. 

Deadline to submit to the Department is March 14, 2025.

For further details, visit the SGS Ontario Graduate Scholarship page. 

Deadline to submit to the Department is April 16, 2025.

For further details, please visit the Vector Institute website.

Deadline to submit to the Department is late February 2025.

More opportunities 

Additional opportunities can be found on the SGS Admission Awards webpage.