External Bursaries

There are many bursaries available to eligible Trent University students that are administered or delivered by external organizations. Below is a list of just a few of the external bursary opportunities and search engines available to students.

Bursary Search Engines

Yconic
Preparing Canadian students and their parents for college and university.

Scholarships Canada ​​​
Students are matched to scholarships and bursaries when they create an account. In addition to matching, ScholarshipsCanada.com provides additional resources such as Scholarship Deadline Alerts.

Disability Awards
This website was created to help post-secondary students search hundreds of bursaries available across Canada specifically for students with disabilities.

Indigenous Bursaries Search Tool
The Indigenous Bursaries Search Tool is a searchable list of bursaries, scholarships and incentives across Canada.

Indspire
Since 2004, Indspire has provided over $115 million in financial support to more than 37,500 First Nations, Inuit, and Métis students.

Bursaries

Kiwanis Club of Peterborough Inc.

Up to $500.00 will be awarded to the successful applicant. Applications must be received via email no later than July 31st in the year you are going to be a first-year Trent student.

IODE Ontario Lucy Morrison Bursary
Bursaries up to $1,000 are awarded to post-secondary students at colleges and universities in Ontario who demonstrate financial need, have completed one full year of study and are Canadian citizens.

Soroptimist
Soroptimist's Live Your Dream Awards program is a unique education grant for women who provide the primary financial support for their families. The Application Portal is open August 1 - November 15 each year.

YWCA Education & Awareness Awards
The YWCA Hazel Education Bursary is intended to help women who have experienced gender-based violence to reach their goals through education or training. Deadline is May 1, 2023.

Chaney-Ensign Bursary
Provides bursaries to students in any subject enrolled in a college, university or institution in Canada or the US, who can demonstrate financial need and who have graduated from a publicly funded secondary school in Hamilton. Undergrad and postgrad students are eligible. More information about applying for the bursary and student eligibility guidelines can be found on www.hamiltoncommunityfoundation.ca/scholarships. Application deadlines are October 1 and February 1. 

Geritol Follies Bursary
Provides performing arts bursaries to students of voice, drama, dance or musical instruments who are enrolled in a college, university or institution in Canada or the US, who can demonstrate financial need, are and who have graduated from a publicly funded secondary school in Hamilton or Burlington. Undergrad and postgrad students are eligible. More information about applying for the bursary and student eligibility guidelines can be found on www.hamiltoncommunityfoundation.ca/scholarships. Application deadlines is October 1.

David Davis Memorial Bursary
Provides bursaries to students who can demonstrate financial need and who are enrolled in a music program at a college, university or institution in Canada, the US or abroad. Undergrad and postgrad students are eligible. More information about applying for the bursary and student eligibility guidelines can be found on www.hamiltoncommunityfoundation.ca/scholarships. Application deadlines is October 1.