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Trent University is a public liberal arts university in Peterborough, Ontario, with a satellite campus in Oshawa, which serves the Regional Municipality of Durham. Trent is known for its Oxbridge college system and small class sizes.

Trent operates largely through its colleges: Champlain, Lady Eaton, Catharine Parr Traill, Otonabee, Peter Gzowski and Julian Blackburn. Each college has its own residence halls, dining room, and student government. Although Trent University is predominantly undergraduate, graduate programs are offered at the master’s and doctoral levels.

Trent was founded through the efforts of a citizens’ committee interested in creating a university to serve the City of Peterborough and the surrounding counties, and was created by the Trent University Act, 1962–63. The committee recruited Dean Thomas H. B. Symons of the University of Toronto to serve as chair of the academic planning committee and Symons became the university’s first president.

Close to 9,000 undergraduate students and nearly 700 graduate students are enrolled at the Peterborough campus while Trent University Durham GTA serves over 1,600 full- and part-time students at the campus on Thornton Road in Oshawa. The university is represented in Canadian Inter-university Sport by the Trent Excalibur.

For more than 50 years, Trent has incorporated traditional teachings and perspectives into its programming. It was the first university in Canada, and only the second in North America, to establish an academic department dedicated to the study of Indigenous peoples and Indigenous knowledge. Trent’s Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies offers undergraduate, master’s and Ph.D. programs in Indigenous Studies.

Trent University offers a program in Indigenous Environmental Studies in addition to a specialized Diploma in Foundations of Indigenous Learning that provides access for people of Indigenous heritage. The First Peoples House of Learning houses Nozhem, a First Peoples performance space.

Trent University is ranked 29th among Canada’s top universities and 884th among the world’s universities, according to the Center for World University Rankings 2016 list of the world’s top 1,000 universities, up from number 31 nationally, and number 910 overall worldwide in 2015. This places Trent University in the top 3.6% of universities worldwide. Trent University was one of 32 universities to make the list in Canada.

Research is central to the university’s mission as they strive to contribute to research at a local, national and international level. With numerous partnerships from government, other universities, industries and communities around the world, Trent’s researchers continually advance the knowledge, technologies and services of their disciplines.

Trent’s distinctive interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to research sets us them apart from their peers, with the university’s strengths and the strategic directions summarized around three areas of excellence:

• Humanities, Culture & Indigenous Studies

• Aging, Health & Sustainable Communities

• The Environment

With one of the top water analysis labs in the world; a state-of-the-art forensics crime scene facility (also Canada’s first certified zero-carbon building); the internationally-recognized Centre for Aging & Society; the first accredited nursing simulation lab at a Canadian university; a renowned wildlife forensic DNA laboratory; and a library of the future, home to an innovative makerspace and 3-D printers – Trent delivers impactful research and innovation solutions.

Eligibility

• Canadian citizens that have completed the International Baccalaureate Diploma at a Canadian high school will be automatically evaluated based on submission of their official IB diploma scores, including Theory of Knowledge and Extended Essay.
• This scholarship is also open to South African students, as well as, any students that have completed their IB entrance exam in developing countries.
• Students must be an International Baccalaureate Diploma student. Students with an International Baccalaureate Certificate are not eligible.
• All applicants must be registered full-time for 2020-2021 academic year at Trent University in Peterborough or Durham.
• Both male and female students may apply.
• Applicants that have picked a field study in science would fair better in being chosen for this scholarship.

Requirements

The only students that will be able to qualify for this scholarship are those that have taken the IB exams and have passed with high marks. While priority will be to Canadian students or Canadian refugees students from developing countries can apply.

How to Apply

The only way to apply is by enrolling into Trent University first. A student would need to contact admissions, send in the required paperwork such as transcripts and test scores, wait to hear back from admissions to see if that student has been accepted to the university. Then the student’s admissions form will be used towards the IB scholarship.

International students will need to provide their minimum overall score of 26 (including bonus points) in IB diploma.

All international applicants will need to provide an English Language A with a minimum grade of 4 satisfies English requirement. English B with a strong grade may also be accepted.

See the admission chart for program specific requirements. Prerequisite courses can be presented at Standard and/or Higher Level.

• High school in-progress transcript, including predicted IB grades.  If a student completed an IB diploma, request IBO to release their final IB Diploma results to Trent University.
• Submit the in-progress transcript via MyTrent.
• Should the student receive an admission offer and decide to enroll at Trent University, final IB diploma must be received directly from IBO (ensure to request release of their own diploma/certificate grades to Trent).

Reward – Extra Benefits

First off, the International Baccalaureate Scholarship is non-refundable and non-transferable and cannot be deferred to a different year.

Students while be able to use this amount towards tuition and school equipment fees such as laptops or science equipment if needed.

Deadline

The official deadline date for this is July 1, 2022, for Fall, November 12, 2022, for Winter, and March 1, 2023 for Spring.

The deadline dates are subject to change or may have international students instead work on campus for a computer instead of attending in-person classes.

However, students should take the time to check the website frequently for any changes or updates to their deadline date that they have decided to use.

Open Submission Window Time Frame

Since Trent University operates on a 3 based deadline scale, that means, Fall, Winter, and Spring deadlines. Students can choose which season they would like to send in their admissions application to see if they are accepted into Trent University in Ontario, Canada.

Annual

This is an annual scholarship.