University of British Columbia

Award

Automatic consideration, with no separate application, for UBC's merit-based international entrance awards once you apply by the admissions deadline: the International Major Entrance Scholarship (IMES), valued at CAD 10,000-25,000 per year for 2026/2027 and renewable for up to three additional years of study; and the Outstanding International Student (OIS) Award, a one-time entrance scholarship valued at CAD 10,000-25,000 for 2025/2026. As a UBC Okanagan degree you also receive the UBC Okanagan Global Elevation Award of CAD 8,000, which every new international undergraduate who enrols at UBC Okanagan receives automatically as a tuition credit (CAD 4,000 in each of Winter Term 1 and Term 2) and which is renewable for up to three further years or to degree completion; and, if you list a UBC Okanagan degree as your first choice and enrol in it, the UBC Okanagan International Welcome Award of CAD 5,000 applied to first-year tuition. Separately, the need-and-merit-based International Scholars Program (Karen McKellin International Leader of Tomorrow Award, Donald A. Wehrung International Student Award, International Impact Award) requires its own application plus a nomination from your high school, and is open only to students entering UBC directly from secondary school with significant demonstrated financial need; applicants may be considered for either the merit-based awards or the International Scholars Program, not both. These are UBC's university-wide entrance awards for international undergraduates; UBC publishes no entrance scholarship specific to this programme. Sources