In addition to the general admission standards of the university, the school has adopted additional admissions criteria for MASc studies. Applicants must meet one of the following requirements:

• Baccalaureate degree in engineering or equivalent. Applicant must be a graduate from an honours engineering program with at least a 75% average in the past four full-time semesters or the equivalent. International degree and grade equivalents will be determined by the Office of Graduate Studies.

• Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent. At least a second class honours standing (B+ or 75%) in the work of the last four full-time semesters or the last two complete undergraduate years of an honours science degree. Applicants must demonstrate acceptable analytical ability by having taken a sufficient number of courses in mathematics and the physical sciences (chemistry and physics). Applicants lacking background in specific topics related to their research project must be prepared to complete make-up undergraduate engineering courses without receiving graduate credit.

Applicants must be graduates of an honours engineering program with at least a 70% average in the past four full semesters or the last two complete undergraduate years or the equivalent. International degree and grade equivalents will be determined by the Office of Graduate Studies.

Applicants must demonstrate acceptable analytical ability by having taken a sufficient number of courses in mathematics, and the physical sciences.

Biological Engineering applicants must have a minimum of three of the following courses or equivalents:

• Biological/Food/Bioprocess Engineering

• Engineering Unit Operations

• Bioreactor Design

• Bioinstrumentation Design

• Food Process Engineering Design

• Digital Process Control Design

• Heat and Mass Transfer

• Process Engineering

Environmental Engineering applicants must have a minimum of three of the following courses or equivalents:

• Introduction to Environmental Engineering

• Engineering Unit Operations

• Water Quality

• Air Quality

• Solid Waste Management

• Water and Wastewater Treatment

Water Resources Engineering applicants must have a minimum of three of the following courses or equivalent:

• Fluid Mechanics

• Water Management

• Hydrology

• Water Quality

• Urban Water Systems

• Watershed Structures

• Soil and Water Conservation

Engineering Systems and Computing applicants must have a minimum of three of the following courses or equivalents:

• Electric Circuits

• Digital Systems

• Systems and Control Theory

• Programming

• Electronics

• Robotics

Applicant qualifications may be assessed via an entrance interview/oral examination conducted by the proposed advisor and one member of the School of Engineering graduate studies committee. Students deficient in certain areas will be required to take make-up undergraduate courses. Such students will be admitted and allowed to continue on provisional status for a maximum of two semesters or until the requirements are completed. These courses will not count toward the student's graduate credit requirements.

The prescribed program of study must consist of no fewer than 2.0 credits, of which at least 1.5 credits must be at the graduate level, and at least 1.0 must be engineering graduate courses. Under special circumstances the school may reduce the 1.5 credit course requirement; however, the 1.0 graduate-engineering-course credit requirement will not be changed. In all cases the remaining courses must be acceptable for graduate credit; that is, they must be either graduate courses or senior undergraduate courses. Depending on the student's background, the advisory committee may specify more than four courses, including undergraduate make-up courses. If make-up courses are deemed necessary, they will be considered additional courses.

The prescribed program of studies consists of at least 5.0 credits acceptable for graduate credit. This includes 2.5 credits from the program core (see the School of Engineering Graduate Handbook), and 2.5 additional credits chosen from approved courses (section 5.5 of the School of Engineering Graduate Handbook). No more than 1.0 of these credits will be for undergraduate engineering courses, as approved by the Director, and no more than 1.5 credits will be from courses offered outside the School of Engineering. For the final project course (1.0 credit), one member of the graduate faculty will be appointed by the Associate Director, Graduate Studies as an advisor.