Background Information
        The 15 universities receiving the largest allocation of NSERC grants  and scholarships this year (2008) are as follows:
                                                                                                                                                              

University of Toronto	$42.8  million
University of Alberta	$38.7  million
University of British Columbia	$37.2 million
McGill University	$30.5  million
University of Waterloo	$25.0  million
University of Calgary	$23.6  million
Queen’s University	$20.2  million
McMaster University	$19.5  million
University of Ottawa	$16.7  million
University of Western Ontario	$15.9 million
Université de Montréal	$15.8  million
Université Laval	$15.2  million
University of Saskatchewan	$14.4 million
University of Guelph	$14.3  million
Dalhousie University	$13.5  million