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Application periods for School-specific awards

School of Access
Open all year
School of Arts & Science
Jan. 1 - April 15
School of Business
Jan. 1 - April 30
School of Health & Human Services
Opens in April
School of Trades & Technology
Feb. 1 - March 31
Indigenous Education
Dec. 1 - Jan. 31
Centre for Sport & Exercise Education
Jan. 1 - March 31

Other awards, grants and external award opportunities are available throughout the year. Check back often.

Featured awards

Erik Dixon Memorial Award

Value: varies

Award opens: January 1, 2025
Application deadline: March 31, 2025

Awarded to a student in the Centre for Sport and Exercise Education who shows a commitment to promoting mental health and wellbeing through exercise and sport, demonstrates a pass ...

Priority Health Program Indigenous Student Recruitment Grant

Value: $5,000 per year

Grant opens: April 1, 2025
Application deadline: April 30, 2025

To help create accessible career pathways for Year 1 or Year 2 Practical Nursing, Diploma students.

Provincial Tuition Waiver Program

Value: To be determined

Application deadline: Always open

For former youth in care students.

Shemilt Family International English Award

Value: Varies

Award opens: January 1, 2025
Application deadline: April 15, 2025

For the International student with the highest grade point average in ENGL 151, 161, 163, or 164.

Shemilt Family Non-Fiction Writing Awards

Value: Varies

Award opens: January 1, 2025
Application deadline: April 15, 2025

For two students with the highest GPAs in a scriptwriting, poetry, personal narrative or creative non-fiction course.

Shemilt Family Technical Writing Award

Value: Varies

Award opens: January 1, 2025
Application deadline: April 15, 2025

For a student or a team demonstrating a mastery of professional writing principles and document design by writing an outstanding research report with graphics. ...

Shemilt Family Women's Literature Best Essay Award

Value: Varies

Award opens: January 1, 2025
Application deadline: April 15, 2025

For a student who has written a properly documented essay demonstrating superior ability in analysis and criticism of women's literature for a second-year English literature...

Shlepp and Choo Award

Value: Varies

Award opens: January 1, 2025
Application deadline: April 15, 2025

For a student completing Criminal Justice 270 (CRIM 270).

Statistics Award

Value: Varies

Award opens: January 1, 2025
Application deadline: April 15, 2025

For a student who has completed a minimum of three second-year university-transferable statistics courses, including STAT 216, STAT 218, or STAT 219.

Tabula Rasa Award - CRIM 154

Value: Varies

Award opens: January 1, 2025
Application deadline: April 15, 2025

For a student completing Criminal Justice 154 who has shown an ability to balance life with good marks and has a plan to continue their education at a University or College in British...

Ted Adkin Memorial Award

Value: Varies

Award opens: January 1, 2025
Application deadline: April 15, 2025

For a College Preparatory program or first-year Arts and Science student.

Ted Davis Memorial Award

Value: Varies

Award opens: January 1, 2025
Application deadline: April 15, 2025

For a Biology or Environmental Technology student entering their second year, who exhibits academic excellence.

Victoria Camera Club Award for Excellence in Photography

Value: Varies

Award opens: January 1, 2025
Application deadline: April 15, 2025

For a Visual Arts Diploma student who has completed ART 161 and ART 265.

William Geoffrey Ellis Prize

Value: Varies

Award opens: January 1, 2025
Application deadline: April 15, 2025

For an Arts and Science student with a focus on English and outstanding academic performance.

Group work at the Lansdowne Library

Adult Upgrading Grant

If you're attending Camosun in one of the School of Access programs you may be eligible to have your tuition, deposit and fees paid.