Royal Military College of Canada
RMC isn’t applied to through OUAC: admission comes with enrolment in the Canadian Armed Forces under the ROTP — tuition paid, a monthly salary, and a service obligation after graduation. How the ROTP actually works.
Programs
5
Range spans
75–75
With co-op
0
The Royal Military College of Canada (French: Collège militaire royal du Canada), abbreviated in English as RMC and in French as CMR, is a military academy and, since 1959, a degree-granting university of the Canadian Armed Forces. It was established in 1874 and conducted its first classes on June 1, 1876. Programs are offered at the undergraduate and graduate levels, both on campus as well as through the college's distance learning program via the Division of Continuing Studies.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
How RMC 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 will use the highest grade achieved.
- Summer school, night school, e-learning and private school
We accept all Ministry-approved courses.
- Your Grade 11 marks
We offer conditional admission using Grade 11 grades. • Applicants must successfully complete Grade 12 prerequisites for their intended degree (at 75% or higher). www.rmc-cmr.ca/en/registrars-office/academic-prerequisites
- If you don't get your first choice
We admit candidates to RMC in the Regular Officer Training Plan (ROTP). | www.rmc-cmr.ca/en/registrars-office/ regular-officer-training-plan-rotp
- Supplementary applications
Applicants must apply at www.forces.ca/en, not through the OUAC.
- Automatic entrance scholarships
We admit candidates to RMC in the ROTP. www.rmc-cmr.ca/en/registrars-office/ regular-officer-training-plan-rotp
- Special consideration
We encourage applicants who want to be considered for certain careers, such as pilots and air crew, to submit their application in September, right after Labour Day.
- Deferring your offer
If a student refuses an offer, they can re-apply the following year.
- When offers go out
We normally make offers of admission in April or May. • Upon entering the Royal Military College (RMC), all students must provide their final official transcripts to the Office of the Registrar.
- AP and IB
AP: We consider AP grades as regular grades. We may grant transfer credit. | www.rmc-cmr.ca/en/registrars-office/ academic-prerequisites#Adv
IB: We may use IB courses with regular courses to determine admission if the student has not followed the full IB program. We may grant transfer credit. | www.rmc-cmr.ca/en/ registrars-office/academic-prerequisites#IntBac
- Changing programs
The math prerequisites for Arts programs have changed to Grade 10 academic mathematics. www.rmc-cmr.ca/en/registrars-office/prerequisites-province
- Transfer credit
We may grant transfer credits where the course material is within 80% of a course RMC offers. We determine this after the student receives an offer of admission. While transfer credits may lighten a student's course load, they will not reduce the amount of time at RMC. All degrees are a minimum of 4 years.
- English proficiency
RMC is a bilingual university. • Applicants must be able to communicate in either English or French to be considered for admission.
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.
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.
If something happened that affected your marks.
Taking a year before you start.
RMC's GPA scale — the percentage scale you are graded on once you arrive, from the registrar
RMC acceptance rate — why there isn’t one, and the published bars that decide instead
RMC application deadlines: applying through the Forces, not OUAC, and when offers go out
How RMC is set up
Not a ranking — the structural facts that shape what a year here feels like, computed from RMC’s own listings. Universities list at different grain (RMC lists 5), so read the counts rather than comparing percentages between campuses.
0%
of programs offer co-op
0 of 5 listings. Almost everyone here is on campus for the whole degree.
Living there
Required
first-year residence
All ROTP officer cadets must live on campus; the college is fully residential. Cadets in the UTPNCM program don’t live in residence.
Source: rmc-cmr.ca · checked September 11, 2026
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RMC open house 2026
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Ontario Universities’ Fair, September 26–27. The Royal Military College of Canada talk is in room 704, hourly from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., both days. Plan your day
Where it is
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