GGovernment of the Northwest Territories (Education, Culture and Employment)
Partially funded
Northwest Territories Student Financial Assistance
Government of the Northwest Territories (Education, Culture and Employment), Canada
Scholarship overview
NWT Student Financial Assistance helps eligible NWT residents with post-secondary education costs through basic grants, supplementary grants or remissible loans, repayable loans and disability grants.
Award Information
- Canadian citizen, permanent resident or protected person
- NWT resident according to program criteria
- Studying at an approved designated institution in an approved post-secondary program or course
- Previous SFA loans up to date; arrangements made to repay any outstanding GNWT debts
- Not receiving student financial aid from another provincial, territorial or federal program
- Basic Grant: Northern Indigenous residents $875 for books and up to $3,320 for tuition per semester; Northern residents schooled in the NWT $700 for books and up to $2,655 for tuition per semester
- Supplementary Grant or remissible loan: monthly living allowance based on family size
- Repayable Loan: up to $1,400 per month depending on need
- Grants for students with disabilities: up to $4,000 per academic year, and up to $20,000 per academic year for eligible expenses
- Course reimbursement: up to $880 per course, lifetime limit $8,800
- June 30 for programs starting August 1 to September 30
- October 31 for programs starting December 1 to January 31
- One month before the program start for other months
- Course reimbursement: one year from the course start
- Loan repayment incentives: April 15 and October 15
- Complete the SFA application.
- Submit by email to [email protected], fax, mail, or in person at the SFA office in Yellowknife.
- Apply each academic year; acceptance into a program is not required to apply, but enrolment is required before funding.
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