{"id":1405,"date":"2024-08-27T16:09:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hci\/?page_id=1405"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:36:17","slug":"frequently-asked-questions-faqs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hci\/frequently-asked-questions-faqs\/","title":{"rendered":"Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h2 id=\"general-admissions\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">General Admissions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n        \n    <dl class=\"cu-description cu-component\">\n                                    <div class=\"grid py-3 border-b accordion border-cu-black-100 md:py-4 first:border-t\">\n    <dt class=\"font-semibold not-prose\">\n        <div class=\"flex items-center w-full accordion__button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-1383-1\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">\n            Is a Graduate Record Examination (GRE) required?\n            <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-slot=\"icon\" class=\"w-5 h-5 ml-auto transition-transform rotate-0 accordion__icon text-cu-black-500\">\n                <path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"m8.25 4.5 7.5 7.5-7.5 7.5\"><\/path>\n            <\/svg>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/dt>\n    <dd class=\"accordion__content !p-0 md:p-0 mt-0 md:mt-0\" hidden=\"\" id=\"accordion-1383-1\">\n        <!-- wp:cu-block\/page-header {\"title\":\"Is a Graduate Record Examination (GRE) required?\",\"isFirstBlock\":true} \/--><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>No, a Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is not required.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n    <\/dd>\n<\/div>\n                                                <div class=\"grid py-3 border-b accordion border-cu-black-100 md:py-4 first:border-t\">\n    <dt class=\"font-semibold not-prose\">\n        <div class=\"flex items-center w-full accordion__button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-1382-2\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">\n            Is an application fee waiver option available?\n            <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-slot=\"icon\" class=\"w-5 h-5 ml-auto transition-transform rotate-0 accordion__icon text-cu-black-500\">\n                <path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"m8.25 4.5 7.5 7.5-7.5 7.5\"><\/path>\n            <\/svg>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/dt>\n    <dd class=\"accordion__content !p-0 md:p-0 mt-0 md:mt-0\" hidden=\"\" id=\"accordion-1382-2\">\n        <!-- wp:cu-block\/page-header {\"title\":\"Is an application fee waiver option available?\",\"isFirstBlock\":true} \/--><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>No application fee waiver option&nbsp;is&nbsp;available.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n    <\/dd>\n<\/div>\n                                                <div class=\"grid py-3 border-b accordion border-cu-black-100 md:py-4 first:border-t\">\n    <dt class=\"font-semibold not-prose\">\n        <div class=\"flex items-center w-full accordion__button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-1385-3\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">\n            Should I contact a supervisor before applying for the program?\n            <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-slot=\"icon\" class=\"w-5 h-5 ml-auto transition-transform rotate-0 accordion__icon text-cu-black-500\">\n                <path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"m8.25 4.5 7.5 7.5-7.5 7.5\"><\/path>\n            <\/svg>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/dt>\n    <dd class=\"accordion__content !p-0 md:p-0 mt-0 md:mt-0\" hidden=\"\" id=\"accordion-1385-3\">\n        <!-- wp:cu-block\/page-header {\"title\":\"Should I contact a supervisor before applying for the program?\",\"isFirstBlock\":true} \/--><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We recommend that you also contact the potential supervisor(s) and discuss possible research work with them.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>If you have specific faculty members with whom you wish to work then we will first forward your file to the faculty members that you have indicated. If you did not specify any faculty members, then your file will be opened to all faculty members. Note that if the faculty members that you have indicated have decided not to accept you as their student, then your file will be open to all faculty members.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n    <\/dd>\n<\/div>\n                                                <div class=\"grid py-3 border-b accordion border-cu-black-100 md:py-4 first:border-t\">\n    <dt class=\"font-semibold not-prose\">\n        <div class=\"flex items-center w-full accordion__button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-1384-4\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">\n            What type of funding is available?\n            <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-slot=\"icon\" class=\"w-5 h-5 ml-auto transition-transform rotate-0 accordion__icon text-cu-black-500\">\n                <path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"m8.25 4.5 7.5 7.5-7.5 7.5\"><\/path>\n            <\/svg>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/dt>\n    <dd class=\"accordion__content !p-0 md:p-0 mt-0 md:mt-0\" hidden=\"\" id=\"accordion-1384-4\">\n        <!-- wp:cu-block\/page-header {\"title\":\"What type of funding is available?\",\"isFirstBlock\":true} \/--><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Please visit the awards and funding section of the <a href=\"https:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/awards-and-funding\/\">Graduate Studies<\/a> website and the <a href=\"https:\/\/graduate.carleton.ca\/financial-assistance\/\">financial assistance<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n    <\/dd>\n<\/div>\n                                                <div class=\"grid py-3 border-b accordion border-cu-black-100 md:py-4 first:border-t\">\n    <dt class=\"font-semibold not-prose\">\n        <div class=\"flex items-center w-full accordion__button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-1386-5\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">\n            Will there be a winter intake?\n            <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-slot=\"icon\" class=\"w-5 h-5 ml-auto transition-transform rotate-0 accordion__icon text-cu-black-500\">\n                <path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"m8.25 4.5 7.5 7.5-7.5 7.5\"><\/path>\n            <\/svg>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/dt>\n    <dd class=\"accordion__content !p-0 md:p-0 mt-0 md:mt-0\" hidden=\"\" id=\"accordion-1386-5\">\n        <!-- wp:cu-block\/page-header {\"title\":\"Will there be a winter intake?\",\"isFirstBlock\":true} \/--><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There is no winter admission for the HCI program.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n    <\/dd>\n<\/div>\n                        <\/dl>\n\n    \n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Admissions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-1405","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1408,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1405\/revisions\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}