Lester B. Pearson International Scholarships at the University of Toronto 2026 – YOA

Deadline: October 10, 2025

Applications are open for the Lester B. Pearson International Scholarships at the University of Toronto 2026. The Lester B. Pearson International Scholarships present an unparalleled OPPORTUNITY for excellent worldwide college students to study at one of the world’s finest universities in a single of the world’s most multicultural cities.

The scholarship program is meant to acknowledge college students who show distinctive educational achievement and creativity and who’re acknowledged as leaders inside their college. A particular emphasis is positioned on the impression the scholar has had on the life of their college and neighborhood, and their future potential to contribute positively to the international neighborhood.

Awarded yearly, these scholarships acknowledge excellent college students from round the world, together with worldwide college students finding out at Canadian excessive colleges. This is U of T’s most prestigious and aggressive scholarship for worldwide college students. The scholarship is tenable solely at the University of Toronto for first-entry, undergraduate applications. Each 12 months roughly 37 college students shall be named Lester B. Pearson Scholars.

Scholarship

• The Lester B. Pearson International Scholarships will cowl tuition, books, incidental charges, and full residence help for 4 years.

Eligibility

To be eligible to apply to the Pearson International Scholarship, you have to be:

• a world scholar (i.e. a non-Canadian requiring a study allow);
• enrolled in your remaining 12 months of senior secondary college in 2025/2026 or have graduated no sooner than June 2025
• starting your research at the University of Toronto in September 2026 (college students already attending put up-secondary research can’t be thought of; college students beginning their put up-secondary research in January 2026 at one other put up-secondary establishment can’t be thought of).

Application

The 2026 Competition opens on July 1, 2025. To apply, you have to to:

• Receive a nomination out of your college. High schools not already contacted/verified are asked to submit an application to participate in the program, available here. High colleges who’ve participated in a earlier 12 months will obtain their nomination entry beginning July 1, 2025.
• Apply to study at the University of Toronto by October 17, 2025 with a view to start your research in September 2026. Be suggested that you’ll be thought of for the Pearson Scholarship to your first alternative of program at U of T. You could apply for a number of applications and will obtain admission to all of them; nonetheless, the Pearson Scholarship, if awarded to you, can be restricted to your first alternative of program at U of T at the time the scholarship selections are made.
• Once you will have acquired a nomination and also you’ve utilized to the college, you possibly can full the on-line Lester B. Pearson Scholarship application by November 7, 2025.  You will obtain a personal hyperlink to the scholarship application when you’re efficiently nominated by your college.
• Submit all mandatory documentation on-line by November 7, 2025.

For extra data, go to Lester B. Pearson International Scholarships.