Engineering at Windsor
Not directly. At University of Windsor you apply to General Engineering (NE), then choose engineering before second year — Windsor's first year is common to every discipline and you pick then.
The program you actually apply to
General Engineering
74%OUAC NECo-op available
Prerequisites
- 74% minimum average
- ENG4U
- MHF4U
- SCH4U
- SPH4U
- MCV4U is strongly recommended
When you choose engineering
Before second year — Windsor's first year is common to every discipline and you pick then.
What to watch for
Windsor runs the cleanest common-first-year engineering door in Ontario. General Engineering (NE, 74% minimum) and every named discipline — Civil (NEB), Electrical (NEN), Environmental (NEK), Industrial (NEH), Mechanical (NEJ), Mechatronic Systems (NEF) — share the same 74% minimum and, in Windsor's words, 'all engineering programs start with the same courses in first year'. You 'must select a discipline before you begin second year', and Windsor says transfers between disciplines before then can generally be accommodated. Apply to NE if you are undecided; there is no penalty. Windsor publishes a minimum average rather than a range, and its own pages show the minimum is a floor for consideration, not the bar: Nursing is listed at 70% but Windsor recommends 85%, and Concurrent Education lists 75% while the admitted mean is 86%. For limited-enrolment programmes, treat the published number as the lowest you can apply with, not what gets you in.
The same application also gets you to
General Engineering is the entry point for 1 other major at Windsor. You are not choosing between these at application time.
Engineering at the other campuses
Compare the entry programs side by side →- Algomanot offered at Algoma
- BrockDirect entry80–83%
- Carletonno general Engineering entry at Carleton - you pick a discipline on the application
- Guelphno general Engineering entry at Guelph — you pick a discipline on the application
- Lakeheadvia Engineering (AM)70%
- Laurentianno general Engineering entry at Laurentian — pick Chemical, Mechanical or Mining on the application
- Laurier (Waterloo)not offered at Laurier
- McMastervia Engineering I - Discovery Track (MED)87%
- Nipissingnot offered at Nipissing
- Ontario TechDirect entry73–77%
- Queen'svia Smith Engineering – Common First Year (QE)87–90%
- TMUno general Engineering entry at TMU — pick a discipline, or use first-semester Undeclared Engineering (SEU)
- Trentvia Chemical Engineering: Trent/Swansea Dual Degree (RCE)80%
- U of T (Mississauga)not offered at UTM (Mississauga)
- U of T (Scarborough)not offered at UTSC
- U of T (St. George)not offered as a general/undeclared route right now — TrackOne, Undeclared Engineering (TEO) is paused
- Waterloonot offered as a single generic "Engineering" program at Waterloo
- WesternDirect entry87–93%
- Yorkvia Engineering (BEng) (YT)80–87%
Entry routes were researched against each university’s own program pages in 2026-08-16. Windsor’s page. Faculties restructure — confirm before you apply.