VST Scholarships
Eligibility, Performance, & Conduct
Scholarship applications much be attached, with the essay, to the VST Degree Program Application. Scholarship applications received without an application to a VST degree program may not be reviewed.
In order to maintain the scholarship, the student must show evidence of satisfactory academic progress.
For more information on the FSRC, academic performance and student conduct policies, see the Student Handbook.
Scholarship Application Deadline: March 15th
Application Procedures
Applicants who would like to be considered for a scholarship are required to submit a Scholarship Application Form, along with a 300-500 word statement describing their qualifications for the scholarship(s), their goals for their studies at VST, and their vision for their public and pastoral leadership after graduation.
Good candidates for the scholarships have authentic faith, imagination, vision, maturity, capacity for constructive thinking, a keen sense of curiosity, are thoughtful, engaged, and generous, and have good communication skills. Applicants agree that should they be granted a scholarship for studies at VST, that all or part of their statement may be published, along with their photograph, on the VST website and/or other VST publications. Recipients of scholarships write a thank-you note to the funder.
Where appropriate, an applicant may request an oral interview in lieu of a written submission. To arrange this, contact the Registrar at registrar@vst.edu, or the Indigenous Studies Program office (for M.Div. by Extension applicants) at isp@vst.edu well before the deadline.
The Admissions committees (VST or ISP) will be the bodies to decide who the recipients will be.
Terms & Conditions
Each Scholarship is offered subject to the availability of funds. Recipients are responsible for all student fees, living expenses, textbooks and incidental fees, and thus will need other support for their program at VST.
To maintain multi-year scholarships, students must show evidence of satisfactory academic progress. Students disciplined under VST’s policy regarding inappropriate behaviour may be at risk of losing their scholarship. All scholarship recipients will be reviewed by the Faculty/Student Review Committee (FSRC) in January and May of each year. For more information on the FSRC, academic performance and student conduct policies, see the Student Handbook.
Relocation Scholarship
Qualifications
Awarded on the basis of financial need, relocation costs and residential expenses.
Benefit: $2,500.00 CAD
Academic Promise Scholarship
Qualifications
Awarded based on past academic achievement and demonstrated potential for academic studies at VST and given regardless of financial need.
Benefit: full tuition for a student’s entering year (up to a maximum of 30 credit hours). A student’s first academic year begins May 1st.
Part-time option: Students who will not be studying full-time in their entering year at VST may elect to receive a total of $6000 in tuition credits to be applied against their account over the course of up to 3 consecutive years of part-time study.
International Student Scholarship
Qualifications
Awarded on the basis of demonstrated leadership potential, academic potential, and financial need. Recipients will have citizenship in a country that is economically less advantaged. Recipients will demonstrate a firm commitment to use studies at VST to the benefit of their country of origin.
Benefit: Tuition fees for the maximum number of credit hours required in the degree program in which the student has been admitted, or the first 5 years of study, whichever comes first.
Promise for Public or Pastoral Leadership Scholarship
Qualifications
Awarded based on demonstrated leadership, a promise of future ministry (lay, ordained or alternative), and given regardless of financial need.
Benefit: full tuition for a student’s entering year (up to a maximum of 30 credit hours). A student’s first academic year begins with Summer Term and runs from May-April.
Part-time option: Students who will not be studying full-time in their entering year at VST may elect to receive a total of $6000 in tuition credits to be applied against their account over the course of up to 3 consecutive years of part-time study.
Indigenous Student Scholarship
Qualifications
Awarded on the basis of demonstrated leadership potential, academic potential, financial need, and Indigenous heritage and affiliation. Recipients will also demonstrate a firm commitment to use studies at VST for ministry and/or leadership that benefits their community. Priority is given to Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the United States. At least one of the two available Indigenous Scholarships will be reserved for a student in the ISP M.Div. program, and this recipient will be chosen by the Indigenous Studies Program Committee.
Benefit: Tuition fees for a minimum of one full-time year of study (maximum 30 credit hours). May be renewable up to a maximum of 5 years of study.
For recipients in the ISP-MDiv (extension) program: This scholarship will be made available to students in the M.Div. (extension) program only after the successful completion of a minimum of 3 courses.
Chancellors’ Scholarship
Qualifications
Applications are not invited for this scholarship; however, recipients will be determined at the May meeting of the Faculty Student Review Committee. Our goal is to encourage and support students to have a stronger engagement in their studies. The award is to be used to pay tuition. Any balance remaining at the end of the degree program will be paid to the recipient.
To qualify to receive a Chancellor’s Scholarship, the recipient must be:
- a student in a degree program that aims at congregational ministry and who will be entering their final year of study in the fall;
- a student with at least a B+ average in those courses in which a grade is assigned; and
- a student who shows promise for ministry, in the opinion of faculty and their relevant judiciary.
Benefit: Each year, two Chancellor’s scholarships of $7,000.00 dollars will be awarded to students entering their final year of studies at Vancouver School of Theology.