Queen's University
Programs
26
Range spans
80–93
With co-op
17
Queen's University at Kingston, commonly known as Queen's University or simply Queen's, is a public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Queen's holds more than 1,400 hectares (3,500 acres) of land throughout Ontario and owns Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England. Queen's is organized into eight faculties and schools.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
How Queen's actually handles things
From the OUAC’s Guidance Dialogues Resource Guide (Spring 2026), which OUAC publishes for guidance counsellors rather than students. Read the original. Policies change — confirm anything you’re about to act on.
- If you repeat a course
We use the grade from the most recent attempt to calculate the admission average.
- Summer school, night school, e-learning and private school
We accept all courses completed at Ministry-inspected and -approved schools.
- Your Grade 11 marks
We will consider Grade 11 grades if grades in required Grade 12 courses are unavailable.
- Whether your OUAC ranking matters
We do not consider OUAC ranking when we make offers of admission.
- If you don't get your first choice
We do not make alternative offers of admission.
- Supplementary applications
A high school transcript is just 1 piece of information we use when making an admission decision. Each applicant to Queen's has a To-Do List specific to them, detailing exactly what we need to complete their application. Students can see their To-Do List (and the due dates) on their SOLUS Student Centre. We will send students SOLUS access information after they apply.
Applicants to Commerce, Nursing and Health Sciences must submit the Supplementary Application by February 15, 2026 (past).
The Music program requires a personal audition, interview and theory test.
- Automatic entrance scholarships
We award entrance scholarships of $7,000 based on academic excellence to students who are in the top 3% of the competitive admission average for each first-entry undergraduate degree program.
International Admission Awards: Awards of up to $100,000 over 4 years are available for international students entering their first year of an undergraduate degree on a study permit. www.queensu.ca/registrar/financial-aid/ specific-students/international
- Scholarship deadlines
The application deadline for MAAs is December 8. Students must first apply to Queen's through the OUAC and obtain a Queen's NetID to access the online Queen's Financial Aid and Awards (FAA) Profile and the MAA application.
We recommend that students apply by November 15 (past), to access the MAA application and FAA Profile by the December 8 deadline.
A practice MAA application (PDF) is available to assist students in preparing their responses in advance of the deadline.
- Scholarships you have to apply for
Queen's Major Admission Awards (MAAs) range from $40,000 to $120,000, renewable over 4 years.
Queen's Commitment Scholars Award is valued at $48,000 renewable over 4 years.
MAAs are available to Canadian citizens, permanent residents and protected persons only.
- Bursaries
The recommended deadline to submit the Financial Aid and Awards Profile was February 15, 2026 (past).
Students who are citizens or permanent residents (landed immigrants), or protected persons are eligible for bursaries.
By submitting a Queen's Financial Aid and Awards Profile, students will automatically be considered for most of the awards included in our financial aid package, including the Major Access Award ($40,000 - $72,000 over 4 years of study), the Commitment Bursary and named admission bursaries.
Financial Aid and Awards will accept Financial Aid and Awards Profile submissions past the recommended deadline into mid-July.
- Special consideration
If a student is applying from high school to a first-year, first-entry, full-time program for fall admission and there are factors that clearly demonstrate significant extenuating circumstances, beyond their control, that have affected their academic performance over the past 2 years, they will need to complete an online form and attach supporting documentation by March 31, 2026.
Indigenous and first-generation applicants may request consideration under the Indigenous Admission Pathway or the First-Generation Admission Pathway. We must receive requests by March 31, 2026.
QBridge: Academically competitive applicants to Queen's undergraduate programs who do not meet our English-language proficiency requirements will be automatically evaluated for our QBridge pathways. https://qsoe.educ.queensu.ca/programs/qbridge
- Deferring your offer
Applicants with extenuating circumstances who accept an offer of admission may request a deferral of admission to that program for a period of 1 year.
We consider requests based on final grades and the reason provided by the student. If we grant a student a deferral, they may not attend another postsecondary institution during their deferral year. The deferral application will open in the summer.
- When offers go out
Students should add Queen's (@queensu.ca) to their safe senders list as soon as they apply. We will send acknowledgement of application(s), as well as offer(s) of admission, only via email.
We make offers on a rolling basis from November to mid-May. Final decisions will be communicated by May 15, 2026.
- Tuition deposit
International fee-paying offer holders are required to pay a nonrefundable tuition deposit of $2,500 to secure their seat and receive the documentation required for their study permit application.
- AP and IB
AP: We may grant transfer credit for AP exams completed to a maximum of 18.0 units.
IB: Applicants completing the full IB diploma are eligible for admission based on their Ontario percentage grades or IB predicted scores. We will consider all IB applicants, including those completing certificates, for transfer credit for Higher Level courses, to a maximum of 18.0 units. www.queensu.ca/admission/applying/transfer-credits
- Changing programs
Program Prerequisite updates for 2025/2026: o Sciences (QS): ENG4U; MCV4U; 2 of SBI4U, SCH4U or SPH4U; and 2 additional 4U or 4M courses. o Life Sciences (QL): ENG4U, MCV4U, SBI4U, SCH4U and 2 additional 4U or 4M courses. o Kinesiology (QK) & Concurrent Education/Kinesiology (QKF): ENG4U, MCV4U, SBI4U and 3 additional 4U or 4M courses. o Health Sciences (QH): ENG4U (minimum grade of 80%); SBI4U; SCH4U; MHF4U or MCV4U; and 2 additional 4U or 4M courses.
- Transfer credit
First-year students who have taken courses during high school that may be eligible for transfer credit must apply for credit no later than the end of the fall term of their first year.
Students who complete AP or IB courses will automatically be assessed during the summer for transfer credit if they authorize for their official results to be released to Queen's.
- English proficiency
Applicants who attended a school where English was the primary language of instruction for 3 consecutive years immediately prior to their attendance at Queen's are generally not required to submit a test of English proficiency.
Students required to submit standardized English-language test scores may submit: o CAEL (70 overall with no band below 60) o Cambridge English (minimum 175 with no component below 170) o Duolingo English Test (120 overall) o IELTS (6.5 overall with no band below 6.0) o LanguageCert Academic (minimum band score of 70 with no individual score below 65) o PTE (60 overall) o TOEFL (88 overall, 20 writing, 20 speaking, 20 reading, 20 listening)
Alternatively, students who earn a final grade of A- or higher in the 12-week English for Academic Purposes program offered by the Queen's School of English will receive an English proficiency exam waiver. www.queensu.ca/admission/applicants/english-proficiency
Which mark they use when you take a course twice.
Whether courses taken outside your regular day school are treated the same.
Whether they look at Grade 11, and when.
Does the order you list programs in change anything?
Whether they'll offer you a related program instead.
Whether this university wants more than marks.
Money you get for your average without applying for it.
Awards beyond the automatic ones.
If something happened that affected your marks.
Taking a year before you start.
Queen's's GPA scale — the 4.3 scale you are graded on once you arrive, from the registrar
Queen's acceptance rate — why there isn’t one, and the published bars that decide instead
Queen's entrance scholarships — all 25, and what your average is worth
What you apply to, by subject
Queen's admits into 14 entry points across these 35 subjects. Some are direct entry; for the rest you apply to something broader and choose later.
- accounting
- architecture
- biochemistry
- biology
- chemistry
- commerce/business
- communications
- computer science
- criminology
- earth science
- economics
- education
- engineering
- english
- environmental science
- finance
- geography
- health sciences
- history
- kinesiology
- languages
- life sciences
- marketing
- mathematics
- medical sciences
- microbiology
- neuroscience
- nursing
- philosophy
- physics
- political science
- psychology
- sociology
- software engineering
- statistics
How Queen's is set up
Not a ranking — the structural facts that shape what a year here feels like, computed from Queen's’s own listings. Universities list at different grain (Queen's lists 26), so read the counts rather than comparing percentages between campuses.
65%
of programs offer co-op
17 of 26 listings. At that share, alternating work terms are the norm — expect your year group to rotate in and out of the city.
10/30
subjects you apply straight into
Most subjects here start with a broader first year — you apply to the faculty and choose the subject later, so 20 of the 30 common majors are declared after you arrive.
Living there
Conditional
first-year residence
Last year’s terms (Fall 2026). The Fall 2027 dates weren’t posted when this was checked.
For students with an offer of admission by April 15 (May 31 for international and Indigenous students) who send the residence application and $805 deposit by June 1 at 4 p.m. ET and accept their offer by the deadline. Queen’s expects 90% or more of offers to include the guarantee.
Source: queensu.ca · checked September 11, 2026
24,776
full-time undergraduates
Fall 2025 count.
Source: Council of Ontario Universities (Ministry data, which counts diploma and certificate students too) · checked September 11, 2026
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Queen's open house 2026
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Ontario Universities’ Fair, September 26–27. Queen's University runs 2 different talks in room 701B. Plan your day
Where it is
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All 26 programs
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- 93–97%Health SciencesOUAC QH· co-op· supp. app
- 90–93%Smith Engineering - Direct Entry Computer EngineeringOUAC QEC· co-op
- 90–93%Smith Engineering - Direct Entry Mechatronics and Robotics EngineeringOUAC QEM· co-op
- 87%CommerceOUAC QC· supp. app
- 87–90%Concurrent Education/ArtsOUAC QB
- 87–90%Concurrent Education/KinesiologyOUAC QKF
- 87–90%NursingOUAC QN· supp. app
- 87–90%Smith Engineering - Direct Entry Chemical EngineeringOUAC QEH· co-op
- 87–90%Smith Engineering - Direct Entry Civil EngineeringOUAC QEV· co-op
- 87–93%Smith Engineering - Direct Entry Electrical EngineeringOUAC QEE· co-op
- 87–93%Smith Engineering - Direct Entry Mechanical EngineeringOUAC QET· co-op
- 87–90%Smith Engineering – Common First Year programsOUAC QE· co-op
- 83–87%ArtsOUAC QA· co-op
- 83–87%ComputingOUAC QD· co-op
- 83–87%Concurrent Education/Arts - FrenchOUAC QBF
- 83–87%Concurrent Education/MusicOUAC QMM· supp. app
- 83–87%Concurrent Education/ScienceOUAC QF
- 83–87%EconomicsOUAC QAE
- 83–87%KinesiologyOUAC QK
- 83–87%Life Sciences and BiochemistryOUAC QL· co-op
- 83–87%Smith Engineering - Direct Entry Mining EngineeringOUAC QEN· co-op
- 80–87%Biological and Cognitive Sciences PathwayOUAC QSB· co-op
- 80–87%Earth and Environmental Science PathwayOUAC QSE· co-op
- 80–87%Mathematics and Data Sciences PathwayOUAC QSM· co-op
- 80%MusicOUAC QM· co-op· supp. app
- 80–87%Physical and Chemical Sciences PathwayOUAC QSP· co-op