The Canada Graduate Scholarships - Doctoral Program is to promote continued excellence in Canadian research by rewarding and retaining high-calibre doctoral students at Canadian institutions. The CGS D program supports and promotes research excellence in a wide variety of disciplines and broad fields of natural sciences and engineering, health and social sciences and humanities, including interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research. Applicants must have completed no more than 24 months of study in their doctoral program or the PhD portion of their joint professional undergraduate-PhD program by December 31 of the calendar year of application if previously enrolled in a graduate program; or have completed no more than 36 months of study in their doctoral program by December 31 of the calendar year of application if enrolled directly from a bachelor's to a PhD program. They may also have completed no more than 36 months of study in the PhD portion of their joint professional undergraduate-PhD program by December 31 of the calendar year of application if you have not previously enrolled in another graduate program; or have completed no more than 36 months of study in their joint program by December 31 of the calendar year of application if enrolled in a joint graduate program. Please visit the scholarship's website for more information.