First-Generation Scholars Award

To participate in the University of Calgary’s First-Generation Scholars Program for first-in-family students, an applicant must:

• Be an entering undergraduate student whose parent(s), legal guardian(s), or chosen family guardian(s) have never attended a post-secondary institution, either full-time or part-time, in Canada or anywhere in the world; or
• Be a student who formally was a child or youth in care in Alberta or equivalent in another Canadian province or territory.
• Be registered for full-time studies in a first-entry degree program in the current academic year (first time, first term). Second entry programs (e.g., law, medicine or vet med) and graduate programs are not eligible.
• Not already have a post-secondary credential (degree, diploma, certificate, apprenticeship program or equivalent).
• Be a Canadian citizen, Permanent Resident, or conventional refugee of Canada.