The UBC Board of Governors approves fees, including tuition, program, course, special, and student society fees, each year in consultation with students. Fees are subject to change. Please refer to the UBC Academic Calendar for undergraduate and graduate tuition fees for the current academic year, as well as details on student and student society fees, their due dates, and important policies, including late payments and refunds.
Books and related supply costs can vary significantly depending on book purchases, material/shop purchases, and printing purchases. The minimum you might expect per year is $1,000.
Scholarships + awards
Scholarships and awards recognize outstanding entering, continuing, and graduating students. The list below includes our faculty-recommended awards, as well as student-initiated awards that you must apply for yourself.
You can find additional award and scholarship opportunities and resources on the Student Services and Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies websites.
You do not need to apply for these awards. A committee in each program, at times in consultation with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, determines the recipients based on merit. For certain awards, faculty determine a recipient based on a call for nominations.
Abraham Rogatnick Book Prize
The Abraham Rogatnick Book Prize recognizes the most creative and poetic graduate project. If carried out, it should most enrich the environment and inspire the spiritual lives of the people in it.
Alpha Rho Chi Medal
The Alpha Rho Chi Medal honours a Master of Architecture student who has served the school, shown leadership ability, and promises professional merit.
Architectural Institute of British Columbia Prize
The AIBC Prize goes to a graduating student who, based on academic and design work, promises to contribute to the profession.
Architectural Institute of British Columbia Scholarship
AIBC Scholarships recognize students with high academic standing who have improved their design skills.
Architecture Canada Honour Roll
The Architecture Canada Honour Roll recognizes up to four students in the top 10 per cent of their graduating class. The top student also receives the Student Medal.
Architecture Canada Student Medal
The Master of Architecture student with the highest grades or best graduate project receives this medal.
Arthur Hullah and Dorothy Cleveland Memorial Scholarship
The Arthur Hullah and Dorothy Cleveland Memorial Scholarships support BC resident. The award prefers those studying West Coast design or the use of West Coast materials in design.
Beans Justice Memorial Scholarship
The Beans Justice Memorial Scholarship recognizes design that with humour and keen insight appreciates the spirit of place and all things natural.
Brissenden Scholarship in Architecture
The Brissenden Scholarship supports a graduate project on historic building restoration, rehabilitation, or re-use.
Bryce Rositch Entrance Award in Architecture
The Bryce Rositch Entrance Awards recognize students’ undergraduate work in community building and global citizenship.
Canadian Architect Student Awards of Excellence
The Student Awards of Excellence recognize exceptional graduate projects by Canadian architecture students.
Canadian Institute of Steel Construction Award in Architecture
Canadian Institute of Steel Construction Awards recognize design projects using structural steel in innovative ways.
CEI Master of Architecture Scholarship
The CEI Master of Architecture Scholarship recognizes exceptional skills in refining architectural plans and details.
Chernoff Thompson Science Scholarship in Architecture
Chernoff Thompson Science Scholarships support continuing students. The award prefers those showing scientific rigour in their studies. Criteria include structured research and design from first principles.
Concord Erickson Energy and Architecture Fellowship
Concord Erickson Energy and Architecture Fellowships recognize innovative research in sustainable design principles that reduce the impact of the human footprint on the environment.
Dialog Scholarship in Urban Design
The Dialog Scholarship prefers a third-year student who has shown excellence in urban design.
Emaar Canada Graduate Entrance Scholarship in Architecture
The scholarship recognizes a student in the top 10 per cent of accepted applicants for showing initiative in understanding the practice of architecture.
Ernest Annau Scholarship for Architecture
The Ernest Annau Scholarship supports one Canadian Master of Architecture student’s formal study abroad.
Faculty of Applied Science Graduate Award
Faculty of Applied Science Graduate Awards support domestic and international students. The funding may be given as entrance awards, multi-year funding awards, tuition awards, or scholarship top-up awards.
Fast and Epp Scholarship
The Fast and Epp Scholarship prefers a student with an interest and knowledge in structural design.
Frank Stanzl Memorial Scholarship
The Frank Stanzl Memorial Scholarship supports a student with promise in the area of urban design and the potential for leadership in the profession.
Fred B. Dalla-Lana Memorial Scholarship in Architecture
The Fred B. Dalla-Lana Memorial Scholarship recognizes exceptional skills in refining architectural plans and details.
Grace Palomar Memorial Scholarship
The Grace Palomar Memorial Scholarship goes to a student entering the Master of Architecture program with high academic standing and high potential for success.
HCMA Architecture + Design Scholarship
The HCMA Architecture + Design Scholarship prefers a third-year student with a strong understanding of architecture as it relates to its regional context at an urban design level.
Henry Adams Medal
The highest-ranking graduating Master of Architecture student receives the Henry Adams Medal. The Architectural Institute of America sponsors this award.
John Gaitanakis Prize in Architecture
The John Gaitanakis Prize recognizes a design project that focuses on ecological concerns in the urban environment.
Joyce Lewison and Anne Lewison Travel Scholarship in Architecture
The Joyce Lewison and Anne Lewison Travel Scholarships support students participating in the the school’s study abroad program.
Kasian Architecture Interior Design and Planning Scholarship
The Kasian Architecture Interior Design and Planning Scholarships prefer students demonstrating excellence in the area of design integration.
Kenny Charow Prize
The Kenny Charow Prize recognizes outstanding design in a tutorial.
Ledcor Industries Centenary Scholarship in Architecture
The Ledcor Industries Centenary Scholarship goes to a student entering the program.
Master of Architecture Awards
Master of Architecture Awards support domestic and international students. The funding may be given as entrance awards, multi-year funding awards, tuition awards, or scholarship top-up awards.
Merrick Architecture Graduating Prize
The Merrick Architecture Graduating Prize recognizes a student who has achieved a high academic standing.
Paul Wisnicki Book Prize
The Paul Wisnicki Book Prize goes to a student who shows skill and imagination in the architectural form as it relates to structural demands.
Prix de Rome in Architecture Prize for Emerging Practitioners
The Prix de Rome recognizes a graduate who has shown exceptional potential in contemporary architectural design.
Rafii Architects Scholarship
The Raffi Architects Scholarship prefers a student entering their final year.
Randle and Kathryn Iredale Scholarship in Architecture
The Randle and Kathryn Iredale Scholarship in Architecture prefers a student whose graduate project has a focus on heritage conservation and/or green buildings.
Ray Cole and Perkins + Will Entrance Scholarship in Architecture
The Ray Cole and Perkins + Will Entrance Scholarship supports a student who has shown a commitment to sustainable design principles.
Ray Cole Architecture Scholarship
The Ray Cole Architecture Scholarship prefers a student who has shown a commitment to sustainable design principles.
Sherry McKay Graduate Scholarship in Architectural History
The Sherry McKay Graduate Scholarship in Architectural History recognizes students entering their final year of study in the Master of Architecture program who have demonstrated critical, imaginative engagement with architectural history and its theoretical, social or cultural considerations.
Stantec Scholarship in Architecture
The Stantec Scholarship supports a student in their final year. The award prefers a student with an interest in sustainability who has shown good communication and leadership skills.
Student Contribution Prize
The Student Contribution Prize recognizes a student for their contribution to the learning environment in the architecture program.
Terry J. Gower Memorial Scholarship
The Terry J. Gower Memorial Scholarship recognizes a student with high standing in design that reflects interest in regional expression of architecture.
Thompson Berwick Pratt & Partners Scholarship
The Thompson Berwick Pratt and Partners Scholarship goes to a student who has shown excellence in responsible architectural design.
UBC Architecture Alumni Henry Elder Prize
The Henry Elder Prize recognizes a student who displays inspirational and humanistic qualities and brings a spirit of enquiry and joy to the study of architecture.
Vaughn Berg Memorial Prize in Architecture
The Vaughn Berg Memorial Prize recognizes a graduate project that expands beyond architecture and embraces allied disciplines and related practices in the arts.
Werner Forster Memorial Scholarship in Architecture
The Werner Forster Memorial Scholarships support students in the architecture program.
Wolfgang Gerson Scholarship in Architecture
The Wolfgang Gerson Scholarship goes a Master of Advanced Studies in Architecture student who has achieved high academic standing in their first term.
Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Student Award of Merit
The CSLA Student Award of Merit recognizes a graduating student who exhibits outstanding imagination, innovation, and ingenuity in their studies of landscape architecture, and who has contributed service to the profession in school.
Connect Ecological Design Scholarship in Landscape Architecture
The Connect Ecological Design Scholarship goes to a student entering their final year in the landscape architecture program, with a preference for a student who has demonstrated excellence and innovation in sustainable systems.
Daniel B. Quayle Scholarship in Landscape Architecture
Daniel B. Quayle Scholarships prefer incoming students.
Diana Lane Johnston Award in Landscape Architecture
The Diana Lane Johnston Award in Landscape Architecture recognizes the most-improved female student in garden design.
DMG Landscape Architects Scholarship in Landscape Architecture
A Master of Architecture student entering their second year receives the DMG Landscape Architects Scholarship.
Douglas D. Paterson Scholarship in Landscape Architecture
The Doug D. Paterson Scholarship in Landscape Architecture goes to a Master of Landscape student.
Dr. John Wesley Neill Prize
The Dr. John Wesley Neill Prize recognizes the outstanding graduating landscape architecture student who has demonstrated a high level of academic achievement, leadership ability, and commitment to ideals of the profession.
Durante Kreuk Prize in Landscape Architecture
The Durante Kreuk Prize in Landscape Architecture recognizes the graduating student in the Master of Landscape Architecture program who has achieved the highest degree of design excellence in their graduate project.
Faculty Book Prize
The Faculty Book Prize recognizes the student who best demonstrates a commitment to fellow students and to the ethics of the design studio environment.
Faculty of Applied Science Graduate Award
Faculty of Applied Science Graduate Awards support domestic and international students. The funding may be given as entrance awards, multi-year funding awards, tuition awards, or scholarship top-up awards.
Henry (Syd) Skinner Scholarship
The Henry (Syd) Skinner Scholarships recognize students who demonstrate academic excellence and a concern for people and landscapes through active involvement in community and environmental issues.
Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation Andre Schwabenbauer Scholarship Award
The Andre Schwabenbauer Scholarship Award recognizes and fosters excellence in design.
Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation UBC Scholarship in Landscape Architecture
The Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation UBC Scholarship goes to a second- or third-year student who has demonstrated design creativity and a commitment to sustainability, ecosystem biodiversity, sustainable food systems, resource management, or community-building.
Landscape Architecture Foundation Olmsted Scholars Program
The Olmsted Scholars Program recognizes and supports students with exceptional leadership potential who are using ideas, influence, communication, service, and leadership to advance sustainable design and foster human and societal benefits.
Master of Landscape Architecture Award
Master of Landscape Architecture Awards support domestic and international students. The funding may be given as entrance awards, multi-year funding awards, tuition awards, or scholarship top-up awards.
Paul Sangha Limited Scholarship in Design Excellence
The Paul Sangha Limited Scholarship in Design Excellence prefers a student entering their second or third year who has demonstrated excellence in the design process, conceptual design, and design resolution.
PFS Studio Entrance Award
The PFS Studio Entrance Award goes to an incoming student who has demonstrated leadership in advocacy for landscape architecture and related service to the community.
PMG Landscape Architects Graduate Award
The PMG Landscape Architects Graduate Award recognizes a student in their final year who has accomplished a high level of academic achievement, demonstrates excellence in design and presentation skills, and exhibits independence and a high level of professionalism.
PWL Partnership Scholarship in Landscape Architecture
PWL Partnership Scholarships prefers students entering the second or third year of their studies.
Robillard Scholarship
The Robillard Scholarship and student membership in the British Columbia Society of Landscape Architects goes to a student entering their second year who demonstrates excellence in small-scale landscape design.
Will Marsh – Doug Paterson Scholarship
Marsh–Paterson Scholarships prefers students who demonstrate an interest in, or whose graduate project focus on, the concerns of rural and small-town communities in British Columbia.
In addition to the awards listed below, you can find further scholarship and award opportunities on the Student Services and Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies websites.
Arthur Erickson Travel Study Award
The Arthur Erickson Travel Study Award supports an outstanding graduating Canadian student in their travel outside of Canada to discover and study different cultures, ideas, and creative interventions.
Charles J. Thompson Bursary
Charles J. Thompson Bursaries supports a student with unmet financial needs.
Scholarship in Honour of Michael Evamy
The Scholarship in Honour of Michael Evamy provides financial assistance for a research project by a second-year student. The scholarship also provides funding for project-related expenses, including travel.
Janet and Ernest Middleton Memorial Bursary
Janet and Ernest Middleton Memorial Bursaries support students with unmet financial needs.
Moriyama RAIC International Prize Scholarships
Moriyama RAIC International Prize Scholarships recognize original essays that address a specific topic.
Arthur Erickson Travel Study Award
The Arthur Erickson Travel Study Award supports an outstanding graduating Canadian student in their travel outside of Canada to discover and study different cultures, ideas, and creative interventions.
Charles J. Thompson Bursary
Charles J. Thompson Bursaries supports a student with unmet financial needs.
Scholarship in Honour of Michael Evamy
The Scholarship in Honour of Michael Evamy provides financial assistance for a research project by a second-year student. The scholarship also provides funding for project-related expenses, including travel.
Janet and Ernest Middleton Memorial Bursary
Janet and Ernest Middleton Memorial Bursaries support students with unmet financial needs.
Moriyama RAIC International Prize Scholarships
Moriyama RAIC International Prize Scholarships recognize original essays that address a specific topic.
American Society of Landscape Architects Student Awards
American Society of Landscape Architects’ Student Awards recognize exemplary contributions in a variety of categories.
Atlantic Provinces Association of Landscape Architects Peter Klynstra Memorial Scholarship Award
The Peter Klynstra Memorial Scholarship Award supports an Atlantic Canadian student entering their second year of study.
BC Council of Garden Clubs Horticultural Bursary
The BC Council of Garden Clubs Horticultural Bursary supports a Canadian student with unmet financial needs in their final year.
British Columbia Society of Landscape Architects Philip Tattersfield Essay Competition Scholarship
The Philip Tattersfield Essay Competition Scholarship recognizes the best essay on a topic based on the responsiveness to that topic, content, clarity, and capacity to engage the reader.
International Federation of Landscape Architects Student Design Competition
The Student Design Competition recognizes exemplary student work that responds to a topic related to theme of the annual IFLA World Congress.
Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation Annual Grants Program
As part of its annual grants program, the Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation offers two grants to students pursuing their thesis or final project.
Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation Günter A. Schoch Grant
The Günter A. Schoch Bursary Fund offers bursaries for landscape architectural research into the history and status of the profession in Canada, including its organizations and notable practitioners.
Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation Northern Research Grant
The Northern Research Grant promotes interest in and advancement of research in northern Canada.
Landscape Architecture Foundation scholarships and fellowships
The Landscape Architecture Foundation offers a dozen scholarships and fellowships. Each has a different purpose, criteria, and application requirements.
Maeder-York Family Fellowship in Landscape Studies
The Maeder-York Family Fellowship annually recognizes an emerging designer whose work articulates the potentials for landscape as a medium of design in the public realm.
Mary and James Fyfe-Smith Memorial Bursary in Landscape Architecture
The Mary and James Fyfe-Smith Memorial Bursary supports a student with unmet financial needs.
Masuno Travel Award
Every other year, the Masuno Travel Award assists a student with the study of Japanese garden design.
Norman Richard Ferguson Memorial Bursary
The Norman Richard Ferguson Memorial Bursary supports a student with unmet financial needs.
Saskatchewan Association of Landscape Architects Academic Award
The Saskatchewan Association of Landscape Architects Academic Award assists residents of Saskatchewan.
BC Graduate Scholarship
The province of British Columbia has funded graduate scholarships and SALA has received one to distribute. It is a merit-based application with a focus on a graduate project with relevance to areas of value to SALA – design for impact around social justice, environmental justice, advocate for progress; engage people and communities within and across our disciplines, across external communities.
Scholarship Value: $15,000
Eligibility:
• Must be Canadian citizens or Permanent Residents
• Must be a full-time registered student in their final year of a SALA graduate program
Application components:
Apply via the SALA application form
• Description of graduate project and relevance to SALA values
• Name of faculty reference who can speak, if asked, to your project
Deadline for complete application is Sunday, February 25.
Bullitt Foundation Environmental Fellowship
The Bullitt Environmental Fellowship is a two-year fellowship for graduate students interested in pursuing leadership positions within the environmental field.
Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Affiliated Fellowships Master’s Program
The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies offers approximately 50 fellowships each year to students for full-time study or research leading to a graduate degree. Applications are open to current and prospective graduate students regardless of citizenship or visa status.
Irving K. Barber British Columbia Scholarship Society BC Aboriginal Student Award
BC Aboriginal Student Awards support Aboriginal students pursuing studies at the master’s and doctoral levels. Selection is based on a variety of factors, including financial need, family and community responsibilities, and career and life goals.
LafargeHolcim Awards
The LafargeHolcim Awards is the most significant global competition in sustainable design. It identifies the ideas with the highest potential to tackle today’s challenges to increasing urbanization and to improve quality of life.
Learning from Liveable Cities: The Joyce Drohan Travel Award
Learning from Liveable Cities: The Joyce Drohan Travel Award is an annual award for a SALA graduate student to undertake travel-based research related to design for liveable, sustainable, and resilient cities.
Mackenzie King Memorial Scholarships
Mackenzie King Memorial Open Scholarships support graduates of Canadian universities who pursue graduate study in any discipline, in Canada or elsewhere. One Open Scholarship is awarded each year.
Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada Graduate Student Award of Merit
Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada Graduate Student Awards of Merit recognize female graduate students who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in the university or community while maintaining exemplary academic records.
Soroptimist Foundation of Canada Grants for Women Graduate Students
The Soroptimist Foundation of Canada offers several grants to female graduate students in Canada to assist them with university studies that will qualify them for careers that will improve the quality of women’s lives.
UBC Aboriginal Graduate Fellowships
UBC offers multi-year fellowships to Aboriginal students pursuing master’s and doctoral degrees.
Vanier Scholarship
Vanier Scholarships support Canadian and international doctoral students who demonstrate leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in the social sciences and humanities, natural sciences, engineering, and health-related fields.
Grants
Grants allow us to support students who want to explore opportunities beyond their required course of study. Our faculty review each grant proposal and award funds on a first-come, first-served basis.
Graduate students presenting peer-reviewed papers are eligible for $500 in funding from UBC. We will match that funding with a $500 travel grant to pay for travel expenses or conference fees. We equally support undergraduate students presenting peer-reviewed papers with $500 for travel or conference fees.
Students with a project proposal involving community outreach or partnerships may apply for a $1,500 grant through UBC’s Connect to Community Grants. Applications are usually received in November for projects beginning in April of the following year.
Student can submit course proposals that include a complete syllabus, a proposed timeframe, and a willing and qualified instructor (and their CV). The instructor does not have to be one of our faculty members. These courses are generally 3-credit electives. The course grant will be the instructor’s salary.
Other financial assistance
Student loans and bursaries
The Canadian and US governments offer student loans to help you pay for your post-secondary education. To determine if you are eligible to apply, visit Student Services.
Bursaries are non-repayable funds that are available to eligible students based on unmet financial need. The UBC Bursary Program is open to domestic students with student loans and demonstrated unmet financial need.
Employment
We are committed to providing employment opportunities for our students. Internally, we hire teaching and research assistants, communications and technology support, reading room and materials library assistants, and, occasionally, event assistants. We post these opportunities on our website and include notices in our weekly newsletter. Externally, we place co-op students in offices internationally.
The UBC Work Learn program also aims to support and subsidize meaningful work experiences on campus. All current UBC students are eligible for this program, which provides many opportunities for you to develop professional skills and actively learn in a work environment.
Financial planning
Financial awareness and planning can go a long way when it comes to managing debt and the many expenses associated with your post-secondary studies. Student Services maintains a great financial toolkit and list of resources to help steer you in the right direction. They also offer one-on-one financial advising and can help you come up with a plan to get your finances under control.
Financial emergencies
Enrolment Services offers advising and financial support for students experiencing a financial emergency. They may be able to help with a financial hardship brought on by unforeseen circumstances, such as a medical emergency, unexpected change in living situation, or a death in the family. Contact Enrolment Services to set up an appointment or for more information.