Answered By: Theresa Bell (she/her/hers)
Last Updated: Feb 18, 2026     Views: 11

External Awards 

Visit the Financial Aid & Awards page and filter the award type by "External". You'll find a curated list of high quality awards that we think are well-suited to RRU students.

Use Award Search Engines

There are also valuable award search engines like ScholarshipsCanada.com and Yconic.com where you enter information about your situation and they list awards of potential interest to you. The government of Canada also has a search engine for Canadians wishing to study abroad or international students wishing to study in Canada. International students should visit IEFA.org and OnlyScholarships.org. If you're a student with a disability, visit Disability Awards (filter Special Audience by "Accessibility"). 

Refine Your Search

An effective online search will pull up a lot more awards that are relevant to your level of study or topic of research. Don’t spend too long looking for research "grants" because that type of funding is generally for faculty. Instead, look for bursaries, awards, and scholarships. Be specific in your search and use phrases and terms typical of websites (e.g. bursary student), rather than conversational language.

Effective search tools to help you locate the information you need:

  • OR helps pull results of a similar concept  e.g. award OR bursary OR scholarship
  • “word/phrase“ will limit your search to an exact match of the word/phrase in the quotation marks e.g., "Leadership"
  • A tilde (~) focuses the search on the word immediately following the tilde and its synonyms e.g., ~leadership
  • intitle: retrieves search words that appear in a website’s title field e.g. "intitle: coastcapital bursary" results in Coast Capital Savings Credit Union Education Awards
  • An asterisk (*) wildcard helps fill in the blanks  e.g. Canad* will retrieve Canada, Canadian, etc.)
  • A hyphen (-) before a word will exclude it in your search e.g. –US excludes all search results containing "US"

Questions? Contact Financial Aid and Awards so we can assist you.