Scholarships & Awards

Award recipient to be selected by the awards committee based on the following criteria:

1. Honours students wishing to be considered will need to complete an application for the award. The application will include a statement of consent for the Honours course instructor to release course/grade information to the committee.
2. The committee will calculate performance by averaging students' performance in PSYC 5110 and PSYC 5120 to two decimal places to determine the award recipient.  In the event of a tie, the Honours thesis grade will be used to break the tie.

Who should apply? Students who will be completing PSYC 5110 and PSYC 5120 this year.
When to apply? Submit your application form before April 30th in the year that you complete 5110 and 5120.  You can submit your form to the online submission portal, found here. 
* Please note - This award may not be given annually.

This award will be presented at June Convocation.

Award recipient to be determined on the basis of highest PSYC GPA (as of April 30) amongst graduating full-time (minimum 3 courses per term over the last fall and winter terms) students in Psychology who have taken a minimum of 12 PSYC courses at Mount Royal University. Please note: students in the BA Psychology Honours program are not eligible for this award.

In the event of a tie, the following tie-break criteria would be applied:

1. Percent of PSYC courses with a grade of A+
2. Overall (cumulative) GPA

How to apply? You do not need to apply for this award, unless you are a graduating student that is currently taking transfer courses at another institution in order to qualify for full-time status. 

If you are taking transfer courses to qualify for full-time status and you would like to be considered for this award, you must self-identify by emailing psyc_volunteer@mtroyal.ca by April 30^th with your appropriate Letter(s) of Permission and documentation verifying that you have passed your transfer course(s).

This award will be presented at June Convocation.

We want to recognize Psychology students who volunteer in the community. Students will be recognized on our website. If you are completing (or have completed) volunteer work during the 2023-2024 academic year, please send an email to psyc_volunteer@mtroyal.ca by April 21, 2024, letting us know where you volunteer, what you do there (in 1-3 sentences), and how long you've been doing it. Feel free to include your supervisor's name and contact information if you think that other students may want to volunteer there as well.