Your Degree
You must hold, or reasonably expect to hold by September, a master’s degree in Economics for entry to the Ph.D. program, however, exceptional candidates holding a bachelor’s degree will be considered for direct admission to Ph.D. 1 level. The minimum acceptable CGPA (Cumulative Grade Point Average) is 3.0 out of a possible 4.0, which is equivalent to “B” on a letter scale, or at least a 3.2/4.0 over the last two years of study. The University assesses degrees earned outside Canada to determine if they are equivalent to a 鶹AV degree. Find educational credentials and grade equivalencies by country.*Please be sure to calculate what your CGPA translates to at 鶹AV before applying, and if your CGPA is below 3.0, you are not eligible forour graduate programs.*
Math requirements
(a) two terms of calculus (differential and integral calculus, including constrained optimization methods, functions of several variables, partial derivatives, constrained optimization using the method of Lagrangian multipliers and Riemann integration);
(b) one term of matrix algebra (rank, inverse, eigenvalues, eigenvectors and quadratic forms);
(c) statistics: a full-year course in statistics from an economics or mathematics department.