Every year, a new wave of students begin PhD programs in Canada, often aiming for a future academic career. Yet despite hopeful beginnings, large numbers don’t achieve this goal.

This fall, SFU welcomes its first cohort of six PhD students into the School for the Contemporary Arts (SCA). The program is the first of its kind in Western Canada. “The program supports professional ...

Western University is recognized as one of the leading research universities in Ontario (U15 consortium). As one of Canada’s top centres of research and scholarship both in French and Francophone ...

Eligibility You must be a Canadian citizen, a permanent resident of Canada or a Protected Person. You can apply as an international student if you are enrolled in your doctoral program. You must have ...

Since she began her program she has never earned more than $24,000, she said; last year she made only about $10,000. Recently she decided to get out of research once her PhD is complete, because ...

But professional PhD programs, which are common in the U.S., U.K. and Australia, have been on the rise in Canada.

Last year, Canada admitted 280,681 permanent residents, an 11.3 percent increase from 2009 and the highest level in 50 years, the report says.

In 2017, Rousseau-Nepton, a member of the Innu Pekuakamiulnuatsh First Nation in the Saguenay – Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, became the first Indigenous woman in Canada to earn a PhD in ...