Frequently Asked Questions

There is no winter admission for the CS program.

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.

We recommend that you also contact the potential supervisor(s) and discuss possible research work with them. If you are applying to the master’s program, then having a supervisor increases your chances of being accepted. If you are applying to the Ph.D. program, you must have a supervisor before you are admitted to the school.

Please visit the awards and funding section of the Graduate Studies website and the financial assistance page.

No, a Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is not required.

No application fee waiver option is available.

We require 2 academic references. Sometimes depending on the years of experience (usually more than 10 years), we may make an exception and accept one academic reference and one non-academic. Preferably someone from the industry who has a Ph.D.

We appreciate the significant interest of international students in our MCS program. Although we typically do not accept international applicants to the MCS, we remain open to considering exceptional cases. If you have achieved outstanding academic grades in both Computer Science and Mathematics, with a CGPA of at least 85% for those two topics, we still encourage you to apply. However, please note that meeting this criterion does not guarantee admission. In particular, in the statement of interest of your application, you must include an email from an SCS professor confirming that they will supervise and fund you if you are admitted.