Eligibility Criteria
For admission to the Ph.D. program, students should have a Master’s degree in Engineering from an accredited university, or an equivalent degree. In some cases, students with a Master’s degree from another scientific discipline will be accepted. An applicant without a Master’s degree may register as an M.E.Sc. student and transfer into the Ph.D. program after approximately one year if satisfactory progress has been made. A “B” average is the minimum academic requirement for admission. For M.E.Sc. applicants, this average is calculated over the last 2 years of the Honours undergraduate degree. For Ph.D. applicants, it is calculated from the graduate courses previously completed. For international students and students from universities that use a different grading system than Western’s, The Faculty of Graduate Studies will calculate the equivalent average.