Starting engineering school? Aim for 80-plus.
Planning to enrol in engineering school? Admission is competitive, as shown by these average final-year high school grades—or the R score in Quebec’s CEGEP system—of first-year undergrads who started engineering in fall 2013.
Engineering grades
| University | Per Cent | R Score |
|---|---|---|
| Acadia | 85 | |
| Alberta | 89.6 | |
| UBC | 92 | |
| Calgary | 89.6 | |
| Cape Breton | 90.5 | |
| Carleton | 85.5 | |
| Concordia | 27.2 | |
| Conestoga | 79 | |
| Dalhousie | 87.1 | |
| Guelph* | 83.7 | |
| Lakehead | 82.6 | |
| Laurentian | 80 | |
| Laval | 26.91 | |
| Manitoba ** | 91.1 | |
| McGill | 91.4 | 30.51 |
| McMaster | 87.7 | |
| Memorial | 89.8 | |
| Moncton | 83.7 | |
| École Polytechnique de Montréal | 29.132 | |
| New Brunswick | 87.9 | |
| UNBC | 87.8 | |
| UOIT | 78.2 | |
| Ottawa* | 81.9 | |
| Québec à Chicoutimi | 26.33 | |
| Québec à Montréal | 26.8 | |
| Québec à Rimouski | 25.657 | |
| Queen’s* | 89.4 | |
| Regina | 81.8 | |
| Royal Military College | 86.4 | |
| Ryerson | 84.4 | |
| St. Francis Xavier | 85.7 | |
| Saskatchewan | 89.8 | |
| Simon Fraser | 85 | |
| Toronto | 93.2 | |
| Victoria | 85.3 | |
| Waterloo | 91.7 | |
| Western | 89.5 | |
| Windsor | 82.6 | |
| York | 85.3 |
For various reasons, grade averages are not available at the following universities: BCIT, UPEI, Université du Québec en Outaouais, École de technologie supérieure. Four other universities with engineering programs are not listed here as these institutions did not release their average entering grades to Maclean’s.* Grade averages for fall 2012 incoming class** Majority of students enter engineering after first year (University One)Source: Engineering faculties and departments; Common University Data Ontario
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