Rio Tinto Scholarships

Scholarships for students whose research topic touches on one of Rio Tinto’s fields of activities:

• Aluminium metallurgy
• Electrolysis of molten salts
• Hydrometallurgy
• Science of environment
• Analytical technologies
• Modelling and control systems
• Data Science

Amount and duration

• Master’s or doctorate: $18,000 for one year

Eligibility criteria

• Be accepted or enrolled full-time in the 1st year of a master's (with thesis or 15-credit project) or in the 1st or 2nd year of a doctorate program;
• Never have received an award in this competition.

Selection criteria

• An internal selection process will determine which candidates will be recommended to the Rio Tinto selection committee;
• After evaluation of the candidates by the Rio Tinto committee, each of the participating universities (including ÉTS) could benefit from a scholarship.

Required documents

The application dossier, including all the required documents, must be emailed in a single PDF document to infobourses@etsmtl.ca before the deadline. It must include the following elements:

• Proof of enrollment or acceptance from where the candidate is in graduate studies;
• Description of the research project which gives the name of the thesis supervisor, including timelines (maximum of four pages, double-spaced);
• Official transcripts for all university studies;
• Two letters of recommendation from professors or researchers, including the thesis supervisor (if applicable), who followed the student’s progress in the course of his university studies;
• Up-to-date CV.