Canadian Institute of Planners Planning Student Bursaries

Each year, the CIP/ICU Planning Student Trust Fund (CIP-PSTF) offers scholarships and bursaries to CIP student members who are enrolled full-time in accredited Canadian planning programs.

CIP-PSTF’s 2024 Bursaries are:

• SOAR Professional Services Indigenous Student Bursary – $5,000 (undergraduate or postgraduate students)
• CIP Diversity Impact Bursary (three available) – $5,000 (undergraduate or postgraduate students)
• College of Fellows Undergraduate Bursary – $5,000 (undergraduate students)
• David Palubeski Bursary – $5,000 (postgraduate students)
• Ted Fobert and Robert Tennant Planning Merit Bursary – $3,000 (postgraduate students)
• John Bousfield Bursary – $3,000 (undergraduate or postgraduate students)

Our Vision: The sustainable financial support of all planning students in Canada through the generosity of an inclusive and vibrant planning profession. 

The CIP/ICU Planning Student Trust Fund (CIP-PSTF) is the Canadian planning profession’s national charity, providing a scholarship, bursary, and award program to students in accredited planning programs in Canada.

The Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) created CIP-PSTF in 1989 to contribute to the advancement of professional planning. After incorporating as a separate entity under the Canada Corporations Act, the fund received charitable status in 1990. Since then, 154 scholarships and bursaries have been awarded, totalling $500,000 in financial support to worthy students.