FAQs for Supervisor

The intern may work the legal maximum, each week, which is dependent on their immigration status within the country of work.
Student internship hosts are encouraged to pay interns a salary. If you are uncertain how much to pay an intern, please refer to the federal government’s pay scale.

For unpaid internships at NGOs and certain government agencies, the GPS funding internship unit may compensate the intern with an award of up to $2000 per month for a full-time internship. The eligibility of an unpaid internship will be decided on a case-by-case basis, contact the internships.gps [at] mcgill.ca (GPS funding internship unit) for eligibility and questions.

Students will receive funding directly from McGill to their bank account.

You are welcome to offer pay to interns hosted at your organization; however, the student's funding from McGill may be prorated accordingly. If you are uncertain how much to pay an intern, please refer to the federal government’s pay scale.

The intern may work the legal maximum, each week, which is dependent on their immigration status within the country of work.

The review of the internship applications may take up to 4 weeks, after which you will be notified directly by the GPS funding internship unit of the student's application status.

Students may begin their internship year round for in-course doctoral students or after submission of their initial thesis, and before their thesis defense for end of degree doctoral students.

You are welcome to hire students from all nationalities as long as you respect their immigration status within your country, and they possess the proper work documentation.

You may extend the student's internship beyond the 3-month period. However, it will be considered outside the range of the Doctoral Internship Program and new arrangements must be negotiated between yourself and the student alone.

Although it is not required for you to hire a doctoral intern through the DIP, it is strongly encouraged. Funding from McGill is only available for internships undertaken through the DIP.

The internship program reaches across the entire university, so you may hire students from any academic unit at McGill.

Your organization may be added to our Doctoral Internship Program database by filling out this web form. Please note your organization will be vetted to ensure eligibility criteria are met.

As this internship program solely supports doctoral students, the level of work should be appropriate to their advanced skills and expertise.

We do ask you to submit a brief assessment no later than 2 weeks after the internship ends. Should you and the student choose to extend the internship beyond the 3-month period (without funding from McGill), the deadline for submitting the final assessment will be 2 weeks after the 3-month period ends. Please submit this form by email to internships.gps [at] mcgill.ca

The report we require is quite brief, but should you choose to give more detail, you are welcome to submit your own form along with ours.

Should this occur, please take the time to meet with the student to review the Internship Plan, discuss the expectations of the internship and speak about your concern in order to resolve them. If these measures don't resolve the situation, please contact the internships.gps [at] mcgill.ca (GPS funding internship unit).