Scholarships for International and US Students

Queen's University provides financial aid programs for international and U.S. students studying at Queen's, including first-entry undergraduate scholarships. The page describes scholarship consideration for eligible entrants and includes automatic scholarship options, plus a set of specific named awards under the international admission and automatic admission scholarship categories.

For most international admission scholarships and awards, Queen's University eligibility is limited to international students (Canadian citizens, including those with dual citizenship, and permanent residents do not qualify) who are entering the first year of post-secondary education for the first time. Queen's also notes that applicants from certain Canadian transfer pathways may remain eligible, and that Canadian citizens and permanent residents should use the Future Students information for incoming first-year domestic students.

For scholarships where eligibility is automatic, Queen's University states that recipients are selected automatically when applying for admission to Queen's. The page also describes academic average calculation rules (including comparisons across education systems and Ontario curriculum course requirements) used for scholarship consideration unless otherwise stated in the award details.

Several awards are renewable for a set number of subsequent years if the student continues to be registered full-time within the original faculty of admission, and some renewal requirements include maintaining a specified GPA. Other awards on the page are listed with a defined duration such as one year. The page also describes an international admission award program that is not available to students paying domestic tuition and fees for the listed awards.

• To be eligible for most international admission scholarships and awards, applicants must be an international student; Canadian citizens (including dual-citizenship) and permanent residents do not qualify for these awards.
• Applicants must be entering the first year of post-secondary education for the first time.
• Graduates from a 2-year CEGEP program transferring into their second year of a Queen's program remain eligible for Admission Scholarships and Awards.
• Academic average calculation is used for scholarship consideration unless otherwise stated, with specific calculation criteria based on the education system.
• Dean’s International Award Program: applicants must be international students entering undergraduate programs at Queen's University and are automatically considered.
• Dean’s International Award Program: the award is based on academic achievement and applies to students entering the first year of first-entry undergraduate degree programs in the Faculty of Arts and Science, Stephen J. R. Smith School of Engineering and Applied Science, Smith School of Business (Bachelor of Commerce), or Faculty of Health Sciences (Bachelor of Health Sciences).
• Dean’s International Award Program: students paying international student fees are eligible; students paying domestic tuition and fees are not eligible.
• Arts and Science International Admission Award: students paying domestic tuition and fees are not eligible.
• Commerce International Admission Award: students paying domestic tuition and fees are not eligible.
• Engineering International Admission Award: students paying domestic tuition and fees are not eligible.
• Health Sciences International Admission Award: students paying domestic tuition and fees are not eligible.
• Health Sciences International Admission Award: students in the Bachelor of Nursing program are not eligible.
• Principal’s Global Scholars Undergraduate Award: awarded to international students entering an undergraduate degree program through the Global Scholars admission pathway for forcibly displaced students.
• Principal's Scholarship: awarded to students in the top 3% of the competitive admission average for each first-entry undergraduate degree program.
• Mehran Bibi Sheikh Memorial Entrance Scholarship: awarded to 1 male and 1 female student.
• Mehran Bibi Sheikh Memorial Entrance Scholarship: preference will be given to international students who have Pakistani citizenship.
• Mehran Bibi Sheikh Memorial Entrance Scholarship: if there is not an eligible male and female student, the scholarship will be awarded to two students of the same gender; if there are no eligible Pakistani students, it will be awarded to eligible male and female international students.
• Killam American Scholarship: applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States entering first year of any first-entry undergraduate degree program.
• Prince Takamado Visiting Student Scholarship: awarded to a second- or third-year student of Japanese nationality (citizen) currently enrolled in a Japanese university who will study at Queen's on a Letter of Permission from their home university.
• Prince Takamado Visiting Student Scholarship: program of study is listed as all.

• Dean’s International Award Program includes Faculty Awards with annual values listed as: $5,000 renewable award, $10,000 renewable award, $15,000 renewable award, $20,000 renewable award, and $25,000 renewable award (duration listed as 4 years in the underlying faculty award details).
• Arts and Science International Admission Award annual value options listed as $5,000, $10,000, $15,000, $20,000, and $25,000 (renewable; duration listed as 4 years).
• Commerce International Admission Award annual value options listed as $15,000, $20,000, and $25,000 (renewable; duration listed as 4 years).
• Engineering International Admission Award annual value options listed as $10,000, $15,000, $20,000, and $25,000 (renewable; duration listed as 4 years).
• Health Sciences International Admission Award annual value options listed as $10,000 and $15,000 (renewable; duration listed as 4 years).
• Principal’s Global Scholars Undergraduate Award: renewable for up to three subsequent years as defined in the student’s award offer notification, with a renewal condition of maintaining a 2.0 GPA in a full-time course load; the annual value amount is not listed on the page.
• Principal's Scholarship: annual value $7,000; duration listed as 1 year.
• Mehran Bibi Sheikh Memorial Entrance Scholarship: annual value $1,500; number available 2 (1 awarded to a male student and 1 awarded to a female student); duration listed as 1 year.
• Killam American Scholarship: annual value $9,000; number available 1; duration listed as 1 year.
• Prince Takamado Visiting Student Scholarship: annual value approximately $60,000 CAD applied to tuition and fees; number available 1; duration listed as 1 academic year.
• U.S. student loans: Queen's participates in the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program; funding details other than program participation are not listed.
• International student loans: international students may hold student loans secured through their home countries; funding details are not listed.

1. Apply for admission to Queen's University.
2. For Dean’s International Award Program and for the automatic admission scholarships listed (including Principal’s Scholarship and the other automatic awards described on the page), Queen's University states that applicants who are eligible are automatically considered; no separate application is required.
3. For Prince Takamado Visiting Student Scholarship, submit the scholarship application and supporting documentation by the listed deadline; the page includes a specific application section name for this scholarship.

• Prince Takamado Visiting Student Scholarship: supporting documentation is required to be submitted by the deadline (the specific documents are not listed).