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Admission Requirements

Application Deadlines

FALL 2026 (September start)

  • March 29th, 2025: To be considered for departmental and entrance scholarships and awards
  • May 1st, 2025: To be considered for entrance scholarships
  • July 1st, 2025: Final deadline without scholarship consideration

The minimum qualifications for admission to the Master of Arts programs in English are:

  1. an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in English;

  2. a minimum 70% cumulative average in the last two years of study

  3. a B (75%) average in all undergraduate English courses;

  4. a B+ (77%) average in English courses in last two years of study.

In addition, applicants should have the following undergraduate preparation:

  • some courses, normally four, in the pre- and early-modern periods (from Old English through the Eighteenth-Century)

  • some courses, normally four, in the modern period (Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, including Canadian and American)

  • some courses, normally two, from the areas of Critical History, Theory and Approaches, Scholarship and Bibliography, and Language and Linguistics

  • additional courses from any of the above areas to make up the total number of courses required for an Honours English B.A.

NOTE: International students are strongly encouraged to evaluate their prospective candidacy before they inquire or apply; please note that applicants from many countries, including India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, must have the master's degree from their home countries before applying."