Admission

Congratulations on your decision to embark on your MSc in Management journey.
Here is everything you need to know to get started.

The MSc Admissions Committee reviews all complete applications (domestic and international) following the February 1st deadline. We send the first round of offers to applicants between early to mid-March. Review the list of items you need to apply and follow our step-by-step checklist for submitting your online application. You can also book an appointment with a recruitment specialist to walk you through the application process. Once your application is complete, our admissions team reviews it for the next available academic year.

The sooner you submit your application, the closer you are to joining Telfer Nation.

Admission Criteria

Academic Qualifications

• Applicants who have a four-year undergraduate (honours) degree in various disciplines, such as (but not limited to) management, science, engineering, social sciences, health sciences, law, and the arts are eligible for admission to the MSc in Management program. Some program concentrations have specific educational background requirements. For concentrations that do not, the admission committee evaluates the suitability of each applicant’s educational background on a case-by-case basis.
• To be considered, applicants must have at least a 75 percent (B+) cumulative grade point average (CGPA), calculated in accordance with graduate studies guidelines (last 20 courses for foreign transcripts or last 60 units for Canadian and USA transcripts). Students lacking an academic background in management may be required to complete prerequisite coursework as a condition of admission. The specific requirements of the qualifying program will be determined by the admissions committee based on the academic and professional profile of the applicant.

Additional concentration-specific admission requirements:

• Accounting concentration: Applicants who hold non-accounting undergraduate degrees are required to have completed introductory courses in Financial Accounting and Management Accounting. Such applicants are also expected to have taken courses in economics, finance, statistics, and management. Upon admission, before the start of the fall term, non-accounting students must take two additional accounting core courses at the undergraduate level, such as Seminar in Accounting Theory.
• OBHR concentration: Applicants are expected to have taken undergraduate courses in human resources management or organizational behaviour (or related fields). They are also expected to have taken at least one undergraduate course in statistics for the social sciences (e.g., statistics for management, statistics for psychology).

Admission Tests

Applicants having completed their undergraduate degree at the University of Ottawa or other Canadian universities with a CGPA equal to or above 8.0 (at the time of their application) will not be required to write either the GMAT or the GRE.

All other applicants must achieve at least a 50th percentile score on either the GMAT (General Management Admission Test) or GRE (Graduate Record Examinations).

The MSc in Management offered in English requires one of the two following Admission Tests:

• Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®):
  • GMAT Exam (10 th Edition): a minimum overall score of 600 and at least the 50th percentile in the verbal and quantitative components.
  • GMAT Focus Edition: a minimum overall score of 555 and at least the 50th percentile in the verbal and quantitative components.

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  Language Requirements

  N.B. Please note that the Master of Science in Management courses are only offered in English.

  Admitted students are required to read, understand, comment, and build upon the latest and most impactful management-related scholarly literature. This literature is overwhelmingly published in English, especially in the program’s particular concentration areas. Thus, although all students can choose to write their course deliverables and thesis/project in either English or French, they must at least be able to understand, speak, and write in English.

  Candidates whose first language is not English must submit ONE of the following to confirm their English proficiency (the test scores cannot be more than two years old as of September 1 of the year of potential entry into the program):

  • Proof of completion within the last five years, of a previous degree program in an English language university.
  • Proof of recent prolonged residence and exercise of a profession in an English speaking country (normally at least four years over the last six years)
  • A score of at least 100 (Internet-based) on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)
  • A score of at least 7 in at least three of the four Academic International English Language Testing System (IELTS) tests (Reading, Listening, Writing, Speaking) and at least 6 in the fourth. The General Training IELTS test is not accepted.
  • A score of at least 68 on the Pearson Test of English (Academic) - PTE Academic

  Personal Interview

  An interview with the admission committee may be required to assess program fit.