Academic Qualifications and Selection Procedures
For admission to the Master’s program, applicants must possess a four-year degree from an accredited university. The program requires at least a 78% overall average in the last two full-time years of the undergraduate degree. Admission to the program is competitive and meeting the minimum criteria does not guarantee admission.
Since this is an interdisciplinary program, students may be accepted with degrees in a variety of disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, journalism, and computer science so long as the student demonstrates that he or she has a solid academic preparation in some aspect of media, communication, or cultural studies.
Applicants are encouraged to contact individual faculty members to discuss their research interests and possible research projects, if applicable. However, individual faculty members do not directly admit students. For information on how to apply to the program, please visit the MA Media Studies Application Procedure page.
English Proficiency
Students born outside Canada whose first language is not English also must provide evidence of achieving a score of at least 107 (Internet-based) on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or a score of 8.0 on the International English Language Testing System (IELTS), taken within the last 2 years, as detailed in the application procedure.
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