Admissions and Funding
Candidates are admitted under the general regulations, which are specified in the School of Graduate Studies calendar. Candidates must complete their on-line application and pay before the deadline. Before the deadline for application documents, all candidates must submit:
- a letter of intent (2-3 pages)
- a sample of written work in English (10 - 20 pages)
- two letters of recommendation uploaded to the SGS application website by the referees
- university transcripts sent directly to the Coordinator of Graduate Studies of the Department AND a scan of academic transcripts uploaded to the SGS application website
The department will consider your application only after you have entered your personal and academic information in the online application, submitted the application fee and mailed a complete package of your supporting documentation
READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY
Applications to the Graduate Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures must be submitted to the School of Graduate Studies (SGS) through the online admissions application which is housed on a secure server in the University of Toronto. If for some reason you cannot use the online admission application, please contact the department.
Once you access the SGS online admissions application and enter your contact information an applicant identification number and a password will be emailed to you. You can leave and return to your application at any point until you move to the payment stage. At that point you can return to check on the status of this application including whether we have received your supporting documents.
Payment of your application fee must be received by the School of Graduate Studies before we will consider your application. You may pay online by VISA or Mastercard. This payment method is secure. SGS and the University of Toronto will not have access to your credit card information. Please note that the process requires that popup blockers on your web browser be disabled.
If you are unable to pay by credit card you may print an invoice from the application and mail it with a certified cheque to the School of Graduate Studies.
To proceed to the SGS online admissions application please click HERE.
The deadline for completing the on-line application and payment is January 31, 2012. Start your application process early to insure you leave plenty of time for all your supporting materials to reach us. Please keep in mind that references will not be requested until after you have paid. Remember that the professors you ask to write recommendations for you need time to write them and may also need time to mail them to us. Recommendations and supporting documents are due by February 14, 2012.
Those applicants who are required
to demonstrate their facility in English (i.e. if
your primary language is not English and you
graduated from a non-Canadian university where
the language of instruction and examination was
not English) should insure they schedule TOEFL
exams (or other suitable exams, please consult
this website: http://www.gradschool.utoronto.ca/Admission_Requirements/english-proficiency-requirement.htm) well in advance of the application deadline. TOEFL scores should be reported electronically to the University of Toronto using the Institution Code is 0982-00.
Candidates are accepted on a competitive basis taking into account their qualifications and areas of research and interests. Please do not be discouraged, but bear in mind that we receive far more applications than we can accept and many good applicants are, unfortunately, turned down. Make sure your application presents your scholarly accomplishments and interests in the best possible light.
A phone interview may be part of the selection process. Please make sure and inform the graduate coordinator via e-mail of how we can best get in touch with you during the period of February 1 - February 25, 2012.
FUNDING
The University of Toronto guarantees financial support to eligible doctoral students in the amount of at least $15,000 plus tuition and fees. The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures supports its master degree students as well. The funding is available to students in good standing for one year of MA studies and four years of Ph.D. studies (students who enter directly into our PhD are assured four years of funding) and comprises a variety of resources including:
- external awards
- internal awards and bursaries
- research assistantships
- teaching assistantships
Loans are not included in the guarantee.
In addition, Canadian citizens and landed immigrants are eligible to apply for fellowships offered by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (value in 2010/11 was 20,000 per annum for Ph.D. students and 17,500 per annum for MA students). Top candidates for SSHRC are considered for Canada Graduate Scholarships (value in 2010/11 was 35,000 per annum). Canadian citizens, landed immigrants and student visa holders can apply for Ontario Graduate Scholarships (value in 2010/11 was 15,000 ).
The deadline for application is usually about mid-November for SSHRC and the end of October for OGS. Contingent upon Departmental budgetary considerations, teaching and research assistantships tenable in the Department and outside may be available. The assistants’ work load is usually three (3) to six (6) hours a week, although the University’s regulations permit full-time graduate students to be gainfully employed for up to ten (10) hours a week.
The graduate coordinator in the Department for 2011-2012 is Leonid Livak . You can reach him at leo.livak@utoronto.ca. He is your first and most important contact in the application and admissions process. Do not hesitate to write to him with your questions.
The address for all correspondence with the department is:
Graduate Coordinator
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Toronto
121 St. Joseph Street
Toronto, ON M5S 1J4
CANADA
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