Graduate Student News

Upcoming Winter Term Deadlines

For the complete list of dates and deadlines, please bookmark and refer to the Registrar's Office website.

April 1:
Last day for receipt of applications from potential June graduates.

Last day for graduate students to submit their supervisor-approved thesis, in examinable form to the department.

Last day for summative tests or examinations, or formative tests or examinations totaling more than 15% of the final grade, in late winter term undergraduate courses before the official April examination period.

April 8:
Last day to pay any remaining balance on your Student Account to avoid a hold on access to marks through Carleton Central and the release of transcripts and other official documents.

Winter term ends.

Last day of full winter, late winter and fall/winter term classes.

Last day for take home examinations to be assigned.

THESIS INFORMATION

Our Graduate Studies student site has information to guide you:

Thesis Requirements 

Updated Thesis Examination Policy

We Offer Thesis Writing Consultations
Graduate Studies offers one-on-one thesis writing consultations to assist you with any writing challenges you might be facing, answer your questions about thesis writing, or discuss the effectiveness of your writing strategies. The one-on-one writing consultations are meant to assist graduate students who are writing Major Research Projects, master’s theses, or PhD dissertations. Click here to request an appointment. 

Carleton University Counselling Services

Counselling Services supports the academic and personal development of  graduate students at Carleton by providing a wide range of accessible mental health services that align with our Stepped Care approach to student wellness.  Mental health services include Single-Session counselling, brief individual counselling, group counselling, psycho-educational events and programs, workshops, and online resources.

For timely support, we encourage you to use our Wellness Navigator which will direct you to resources and services that are curated to fit your needs.

The Order of the White Rose Scholarships 

The Order of the White Rose is evolving and, in 2025, has become an annual Canada-wide scholarship program . Initiated by Polytechnique Montréal, this program is made possible thanks to the support of the Philanthropic Circle of the Order of the White Rose. These non-renewable $50,000 scholarships will be awarded to Canadian female engineering students who wish to pursue graduate studies (master’s or PhD) in engineering at the institution of their choice, in Canada or abroad.

To be eligible for the scholarship, the candidate must, as of the application submission deadline at her home institution, be:

• Identify as a woman;
• A Canadian citizen or permanent resident;
• A graduate of an engineering program at a Canadian university and have completed her bachelor's degree in December 2024, or be in the process of completing it in May or August 2025;
• Enrolled, or in the process of enrolling, in a graduate studies program in engineering (master’s or PhD) to begin the year after receiving her bachelor’s degree*.

The deadline for submitting your application portfolio is determined by your home university. Please contact Tom Morrice with the Faculty of Engineering and Design for Carleton deadlines.

The Order of the White Rose scholarship main deadline is June 30. For more details about the scholarship, click here. 

Sprott PhD Candidate Bertrand Lemieux Awarded Prestigious Scholarship by CPA Quebec

Carleton University PhD in Management candidate Bertrand Lemieux was awarded a scholarship of $10,000 by the CPA Québec Foundation in recognition of his research on tax literacy, more specifically on attitudes, experiences, and perceptions of Canadian individuals with regard to their tax situation.

“I would like to extend my most heartfelt thanks to my supervisor Professor François Brouard, DBA, FCPA, FCA and to Professor Merridee Bujaki, PhD, FCPA, FCA for their letter of recommendation, as well as their ongoing support since the beginning of my PhD,” said Bertrand.

The CPA Quebec PhD Scholarship supports the development of accounting scholars and advancing knowledge development in professional accounting areas of expertise.

Our Climate, Our Permafrost Lecture

Join Prof. Chris Burn for an encore performance of his Marston LaFrance lecture: Our Climate, Our Permafrost

This in-person event will be held on March 31 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 2017 Dunton Tower.

About one quarter of the world’s permafrost regions are in Canada, underlying about half of our country. The North, especially the western Arctic, has had the most rapid climate warming, with annual temperatures at Inuvik, NWT, rising since the 1960s from -9.5 °C to above -6 °C. Adjustments in the precipitation regime are primarily to rainfall in early autumn. These indicators exceed projections made in 2000 for the magnitude of climate warming under the highest rate of greenhouse-gas emissions then thought likely. The consequences of such climate change for permafrost environments depend on the history of ice accumulation in the ground and distribution of such ice with depth. Permafrost is no longer in thermal equilibrium with the climate, as it was 50 years ago. 

Click here for more details. To register, please email Natalia Fierro Marquez by March 28.