Admission is competitive, as shown by these average final-year high school grades—or the R score in Quebec’s CEGEP system—of first-year undergrads starting engineering school in fall 2009.
Average Entering Grade | |
Acadia | 86.9% |
Alberta | 87% |
UBC | 87.8% |
Calgary | 85% |
Carleton | 83.8% |
Concordia | 80% / R score 26.24 |
Guelph | 82.1%* |
Lakehead | 81.8% |
Laurentian | 79.4% |
Laval | R score 27.648 |
Manitoba | 90.4** |
McGill | 88.8% / R score 30.41 |
McMaster | 86.6% |
Memorial | 86.7% |
Moncton | 82.1% |
École Polytechnique de Montréal | R score 29.477 |
New Brunswick | 86.1% |
UNBC | 88.6% |
University of Ontario Institute of Technology | 77% |
Ottawa | 80.9%* |
UPEI | Not applicable |
Québec à Chicoutimi | R score 25.5 |
Québec à Montréal | R score 24.25 |
Québec en Outaouais | Not applicable |
École de technologie supérieure | Not applicable |
Queen’s | 86.9%* |
Regina | 83.5% |
Royal Military College | 84.5% |
Ryerson | 80% |
St. Francis Xavier | 85.9% |
Saskatchewan | 89% |
Simon Fraser | 83.1% |
Toronto | 90.3% |
Victoria | 87%* |
Waterloo | 89.2% |
Western | 86.8% |
Windsor | 82% |
York | 83% |
Eight universities with engineering programs are not listed here. These institutions did not release their average entering grades to Maclean’s. *Grade average for fall 2008 incoming class. **Majority of students enter engineering after first year (University One).
Source: Engineering faculties and departments; Common University Data Ontario