As you navigate your academic journey you'll start charting a new destination: your career!
You're asking the big questions right now: Will I have a good career if I take this path? How do I grow the networks that will get me connected to my first great opportunities? How do I create a professional portfolio with that Wow Factor?
Awards and other recognitions
There are many student awards and funding opportunities available to SCARP students. Awards and other funding sources are made available through SCARP, UBC's Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (G+PS), professional planning boards, other UBC departments, and more.
Celebrate yourself
Winning these recognitions is a big deal! It doesn’t just confer you funding and other perks, but celebrations of your achievement by the award-giving institution and by UBC SCARP. You could also achieve more accomplishments and stories of your adventures as a SCARP student.
These accomplishments are your story. And in this day and age, your story is your professional portfolio! Your ability to tell your story (whether networking, updating your LinkedIn, or designing a promotional website) is one of your first steps into a bigger world.
You can co-write celebrations of your accomplishments and adventures at UBC SCARP and have a news piece about you written by this prestigious university to put in your professional portfolio and celebrate with your friends family and community!
This could be you!
Take a look at just a few celebrations of our students:
Celebrate your accomplishments
MCRP student Alea Mohamed being celebrated by SCARP for being awarded a SSHRC CGS-M Scholarship
Share your good works
MCRP-ICP student Rajpreet Sidhu talks about her exciting project in partnership with municipal institutions
Tell your SCARP adventure story
On SCARP MCRP student Brinnae Cooper being invited to attend COP29, the UN Climate Change Conference
Your career
Remember, this is all in service of your future. Being a Planning student at UBC SCARP grows your opportunities and your portfolio in all kinds of ways:
- Joining conferences where your work is celebrated and you make connections
- Presenting your findings to some of BC's biggest institutions during your degree's final project
- If you're an MCRP student, undertaking an internship and gaining experience and recognition
- Entering the field of Planning with a degree in Planning from UBC to show for it, in a time when your expertise is dearly needed!
More support
University life can be a lot. But there’s a whole network of resources and people to give you the tools to make it manageable, empowering, and exciting.
UBC and your department/program will provide guidance throughout all stages of your study. Even so, a key to success in graduate education lies in reaching out and accessing help from everything we've built for you. These resources exist for you, so take a look!
