Admission Requirements

Master's Degree (MSc)

A minimum average of A- (80% or 10/12) in the last 2 full-time years of education

• Note: Averages for part-time students will use the last 10.0 full credits (or equivalent)

A minimum average of 80% for all graduate-level course work

Strong performance in a recent statistics course ¹

Applicants must have completed a statistics course covering the following topics: parameters, distributions, sampling, variance and hypothesis testing (including t-tests, chi-square tests, ANOVA and linear regression) as well as estimation and confidence interval construction. The course should cover both theory and applied analysis and thus should include the analysis of data using the above inference procedures. (Please note that statistics courses acceptable to the program typically require a university level mathematics course as a prerequisite.)

 Courses that would not meet this requirement:

• Quantitative Research Methods 
• Research Design and Analysis 
• Qualitative Research Methods
• Courses focused only on interpreting statistical analyses that do not include a data analysis component
• Open online courses (e.g. Coursera)

International applicants will require an English proficiency test completed within the last two calendar years and meeting one of the following minimum results ²:

• The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). The competitive score is 5, with no individual score below 4.5. [Western's TOEFL ID is 0984].
• The International English Language Testing Service (IELTS Academic). The competitive score is 7 out of 9 overall, with no individual score below 6.5.
• The Duolingo English Test. Applicants must attain a minimum score of 135.
• The Canadian Academic English Language Assessment (CAEL Assessment). The competitive overall score is 70, with 70 in both writing and speaking.
  
• Western English Language Centre. The requirement is successful completion of the High-Advanced level.
  
• Fanshawe College’s ESL Program. The requirement is graduation from Level 10, English for Academic Purposes, with a minimum 80% in all components.
  

Additional options for proof of English Language Proficiency are listed on the following SGPS web page:  https://grad.uwo.ca/admissions/international/index.html. 

^{1. Our graduate program requires students to have taken, and completed with a very strong performance, a recent course in statistics (within the last 4 years). If a great deal of time has elapsed since your last statistical courses, we recommend that your application include concrete examples of how you use statistical methods on a regular basis.}

^{2. Applicants may be exempt from the English proficiency requirement if they have at least two full-time years of study in a Degree program at an English speaking post-secondary institution, located in a country whose primary language is English. The list of eligible countries is as follows: Australia, Barbados, Botswana, Canada, Ghana, Guyana, Hong Kong, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Malta, Namibia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States of America, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.} 

Master's Degree (MSc)

A minimum average of A- (80% or 10/12) in the last 2 full-time years of education

• Note: Averages for part-time students will use the last 10.0 full credits (or equivalent)

A minimum average of 80% for all graduate-level course work

International applicants will require an English proficiency test completed within the last two calendar years and meeting one of the following minimum results ¹:

• The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). The competitive score is 5, with no individual score below 4.5. [Western's TOEFL ID is 0984].
• The International English Language Testing Service (IELTS Academic). The competitive score is 7 out of 9 overall, with no individual score below 6.5.
• The Duolingo English Test. Applicants must attain a minimum score of 135.
• The Canadian Academic English Language Assessment (CAEL Assessment). The competitive overall score is 70, with 70 in both writing and speaking.
  
• Western English Language Centre. The requirement is successful completion of the High-Advanced level.
  
• Fanshawe College’s ESL Program. The requirement is graduation from Level 10, English for Academic Purposes, with a minimum 80% in all components.

Additional options for proof of English Language Proficiency are listed on the following SGPS web page:  https://grad.uwo.ca/admissions/international/index.html.