Fonds de recherche du Québec — Société et culture (FRQSC)
$20,000 a year for up to two years for a research master's in Quebec in humanities, social sciences or arts. You cannot hold this and a CGS-M.
Published by G Paul · last checked September 24, 2026
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The FRQSC Master's Research Scholarship (B1) is the flagship provincial master's funding for Quebec students in humanities, social sciences, arts, and letters. Administered by the Fonds de recherche du Québec — Société et culture, one of the three sectoral funds within the Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ). The award provides $20,000 per year for up to 2 years (maximum $40,000 total, 6 semesters of funding). Unlike federal Tri-Agency awards, FRQ scholarships are Quebec-restricted: only Quebec-domiciled trainees pursuing a research master's at a recognized Quebec university are eligible. The Quebec opt-out of the federal Canada Student Financial Assistance program does NOT apply to research scholarships — Quebec students remain fully eligible for the parallel federal SSHRC CGS-M and typically apply to both competitions in the same cycle. Holding rules apply: a student cannot hold a CGS-M and an FRQSC B1 in the same year. If you win both, you choose. Most students take the higher-value or longer-duration award and decline the other.
You qualify for FRQSC B1 if you are (1) a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or protected person; (2) a Quebec resident under FRQ's residency rules; (3) admitted to or registered in a research-based master's program (typically thesis-based, sometimes named-paper based depending on faculty conventions) at a recognized Quebec university; AND (4) your research falls within FRQSC's sectoral scope — humanities, social sciences, arts, and letters. (Health-sciences research goes to FRQS instead; nature-and-technologies research goes to FRQNT.) The competition is selective, evaluated on academic record, research project quality, supervisor endorsement, and fit with the FRQSC mandate.
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No. You need to be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.
FundMyCourse.ca · checked Sep 24, 2026
$20,000/year (up to 2 years; $40,000 total)
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