Full-Time Waterloo Admission Requirements

• A four-year honours undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in economics, business or a related field with a concentration in finance.
• Minimum B+ average in your last two years of full-time study.
• GMAT score of at least 650 for the full-time with co-op program, and at least 620 for the full-time regular program or the GRE equivalent. If you passed the CFA Level I exam the GMAT requirement can be waived.
• High proficiency in written and spoken English (co-op option applicants are required to attend a face-to-face interview).
  • Applicants whose language of instruction was other than English during their undergraduate degree must supply evidence of proficiency in English prior to admission:
    
    • Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL): A minimum score of 100 (with minimum skills scores of 21 in each of the four skills sets); or
    • International English Language Testing System (IELTS) or its equivalent: A minimum score of seven.
• Letters of reference: Normally one academic reference and one professional reference, or two academic references with less than one year of full-time work experience.

Alternate Weekend Toronto Admission Requirements

Note: Intake for this format is currently on hold.

• A four-year undergraduate degree or equivalent, in economics, finance or business with a finance concentration.
• Minimum B+ average in your last two years of full-time study.
• GMAT score of at least 620 or the GRE equivalent. If you passed the CFA Level I exam the GMAT requirement can be waived.
• Letters of reference: Normally one academic reference and one professional reference, or two professional references with more than five years of work experience.
• At least two years of full-time work experience.
• Applicants whose language of instruction was other than English during their undergraduate degree must supply evidence of proficiency in English prior to admission:
  • Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL): A minimum score of 573 paper-based, 100 internet-based (with minimum skills scores of 21 in each of the four skills sets); or
  • International English Language Testing System (IELTS) or its equivalent: A minimum score of seven.

Full-Time Waterloo MFin + MMA Admission Requirements

To be admitted to the Master of Finance and MSc Management Analytics double degree program, students must meet the general admission requirements of the university, and must possess 4-year degree in business, economics or a quantitative discipline such as Operations Research, Mathematics, Statistics, Actuarial Sciences, Physics, Chemistry, Life Sciences or Engineering Sciences. To be considered, applicants should have:

• a minimum overall GPA of B+ in the final two years.
• a course in each of calculus and statistics with a grade of at least B+ in each of these courses.
• an intermediate level course in each of finance, economics, and accounting with a grade of at least B+ in each of these courses. Achieving 50^th percentile in the three subjects in the CFA Level I examination is considered to be equivalent.
• The GMAT, with a minimum score of 620 (or GRE equivalent). GMAT can be waived for applicants who passed CFA level I examination.

Proficiency in written and spoken English is essential to graduate studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. Applicants whose first language is not English and who have not completed an undergraduate or graduate degree at an institution where English is the language of instruction are required to provide evidence of English language proficiency. Normally this evidence is a score of at least 100 in TOEFL or at least 7 in IELTS.