OTIP awards thirty $1,500 bursaries by random draw. Eligible post-secondary students can study full-time or part-time in Canada or abroad and must meet the OTIP insurance connection requirements.
How to Apply
- Eligibility
- Application
- Judging
- Be a legal resident of Canada, excluding Quebec, enrolled full-time or part-time in a post-secondary college, university, skilled trades or technology program. Study outside Canada is eligible.
- Be insured through an individual or group OTIP plan or program, or have at least one parent, grandparent, guardian, trustee or custodian insured through one.
- Have never received an OTIP bursary.
- Children, relatives, dependants and household members of OTIP employees, directors or trustees, or of any OTIP subsidiary, are ineligible.
Submit the online entry for the student who would receive the bursary. Only one entry per student is accepted.
- Provide the student’s first and last name, phone number, email and address, and answer the mathematical skill-testing question correctly.
- Provide accurate details about the insured OTIP member and their insurance plan or program.
- Selected recipients must provide an official statement from their institution confirming full-time or part-time enrolment and return the signed release and consent form within 14 calendar days.
Applications close June 1st, 2027 at 11:59:59 p.m. EST. OTIP prints the cutoff in EST, which is UTC−5.
Thirty separate random draws from eligible entries take place on or about June 30th, 2027. OTIP contacts selected students by phone or email. If a selected student does not meet the requirements, another student is drawn. The odds depend on the number of eligible entries.