Admission and Degree Requirements

Admission Requirements

• MSc Admission Requirements
  Please see the admission requirements for more information about the Materials Science Master's program.
• PhD Admission Requirements
  Please see the admission requirements for more information about the Materials Science Doctoral program.

Degree Requirements

• Thesis Option
  • Successful completion of 30 credits, including six three-credit courses and a 12-credit thesis. The six three-credit courses must include three core courses and three elective courses, and a minimum grade of B- must be achieved in each course. With approval from the student's Advisory Committee, at most one elective course may be a fourth-year undergraduate course not included in the list of graduate course electives (see below). At most, two of the electives may be courses either listed or cross-listed as undergraduate courses.
  • Successful completion of the non-credit Graduate Seminar in Modelling and Computational Science course.
  • Additional information can be found in the Policies and procedures section of the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (SGPS) website.
• Course-based Option
  • Successful completion of 30 credits, including eight three-credit courses and a six-credit research project. The eight three-credit courses must include three core courses and five elective courses, and a minimum grade of B- must be achieved in each course. With approval from the student's Advisory Committee, at most two elective courses may be fourth-year undergraduate courses not included in the list of graduate course electives (see below). At most two of the electives may be courses either listed or cross-listed as undergraduate courses.
  • Successful completion of the non-credit Graduate Seminar in Modelling and Computational Science course.
  • Additional information can be found in the Policies and procedures section of the SGPS website.