Financial Assistance
Financial assistance is available in the form of graduate assistantships and fellowships. Most fellowships can be held in conjunction with an assistantship.
Assistantships:
The Department of French makes a number of appointments of Teaching Assistants to full-time students to do undergraduate teaching, marking, or laboratory monitoring. Students must apply for a Teaching Assistantship. Applications (two documents) are available to download (
TA Application_2025-26.pdf and TA Questionnaire.pdf). Print the forms and send them to the address listed on the forms.
Information on the base funding package offered by the University:
Applicants for admission to the School of Graduate Studies will automatically be considered for University of Toronto Fellowships provided the applications are received complete by JANUARY 15, 2026.
All students admitted to the M.A. program will receive a half funding package of $10,875 plus half tuition & fees (2025-26) which includes a work assignment (correcting duties, research assistantship, etc.) in the department. The funding package may be made up of the following components: scholarship and awards, teaching assistantships (to a maximum of $7,200 in 2025-26), research assistantships, and University of Toronto Fellowship.
Part-time M.A. students are not eligible for guaranteed funding.
For more details about graduate funding, please check the How Graduate Funding Works in A&S page on the Faculty of Arts & Science website.