OAC Scholarships & Other Awards
Supporting Student Excellence at OAC
The Ontario Agricultural College offers a significant range of scholarships, bursaries and travel grants.
Over 687 awards totalling more than $1.5 million, are given out each year to our diploma, undergraduate and graduate students, thanks to the generous support of alumni, donors and industry partners. For more information on all awards, please contact oacaward@uoguelph.ca.
Award Application Forms
Convocation Awards
Application Deadline: April 1st (11:59 PM)
Undergraduate Fall Awards
Application Deadline: May 15th (11:59 PM)
Graduate Fall Awards
Application Deadline: August 15th (11:59 PM)
Travel Grants
| Travel Date(s) | Application Deadline |
| May 1st - August 31st | March 15th |
| September 1st - December 31st | July 15th |
| January 1st - April 30th | November 15th |
Learning Trust
Application Deadline: TBD, Fall 2025
Wilder Family Scholarships
Thanks to a $2-million gift from U of G alumnus Andy Wilder (BSc Agr. ‘84), three new scholarships have been created to attract top Canadian and international students to the Ontario Agricultural College (OAC) to pursue a career in the Canadian agri-food sector. The funding will create the single largest scholarship offered at U of G, at $80,000, and will be awarded to one student each year pursuing an undergraduate degree in OAC.
- Wilder Family Leadership Scholarship: One award of $80,000 to an undergraduate student who has significant leadership experiences
- Wilder Family Scholarship: Two awards of $40,000
- Wilder Family Graduate Scholarship: Two awards of $15,000 each to an international student pursuing a course-based master’s degree
OAC Graduate Promise & Potential Fund
The Ontario Agricultural College Graduate Promise & Potential Fund (GP&PF) was established to provide support to students who are experiencing unforeseen and unavoidable financial emergencies. The OAC GP&PF assists in situations where the emergency may impede academic progress or success.
The donors who established the OAC GP&PF hope that its generosity will spur a spirit of kindness, similar to the “pay-it-forward” movement, for students to one day be in a position to repay that same kindness to others.
To be considered, students must be currently registered in a graduate program offered by the Ontario Agricultural College. Emergency costs must have been incurred during the academic year while registered in their program.
It is expected that the student has explored all other possible sources of funding and has exhausted all other resources prior to submission of an OAC GP&PF application.
OAC GP&PF applications are accepted on an on-going basis and will be reviewed as soon as possible following submission. Once review is complete, students will receive an update emailed to their UoG email account. Typical turnaround time for review is 3-business days.
OAC Learning Trust
The OAC Learning Trust supports learning opportunities and initiatives that enhance the skills of associate diploma, undergraduate and graduate students in OAC. Supporting our students' self-identified and self-directed learning opportunities is an important way we ensure excellence in educational programming at the Guelph and Ridgetown campuses.
The OAC Learning Trust supports:
- Experiential Learning: Supporting hands-on, real world learning opportunities domestically or internationally for students including field trips, lab trips and trips to attend academic/ skills competitions
- International Development: Providing travel opportunities for students that enhance learning including attendance at international youth congresses, leadership opportunities, travel to support and learn from development projects and other programs that enhance global awareness and understanding and help students to develop and improve communications, organizational and networking skills.
- Student Lead Initiatives: Support events, symposia, conventions or skills workshop to enhance learning for students in initiatives developed for and run by students
The OAC Learning Trust is an endowment fund, established with donations, designed to enrich the student experience, promote excellence in learning and provide new opportunities and enhanced accessibility to learning opportunities for students (diploma and undergraduate) enrolled in courses and programs administered by the OAC. Preference is given to projects that benefit multiple students and/or student groups.
Application Information
Learning Trust proposals are accepted in the Fall. Exact deadline date will be updated and posted on the OAC Application Form webpage. Additional calls for proposals may be run in the Summer and/or Winter Semester depending on funds available.
Applications for support are submitted by OAC students but can be developed and supported by faculty, staff and academic units in OAC.
The OAC Learning Trust Application form is available online. Click here to access the application form to create and submit your proposal.
Contact: oacaward@uoguelph.ca
519-824-4120 Ext. 52284
Thank you to the various donors, alumni and the OAC Alumni Foundation for their financial support of the OAC Learning Trust.