Funding

• Winners of major external awards (OGS, QEII and Tri-Council) may be eligible for top-up funding which includes the Dean’s Graduate Scholarship (total value exceeds $10,000). 
• Eligible domestic students admitted to study on a full-time basis receive an average of $14,500 a year. This support may be made up of teaching assistantships, internal/external scholarships, and/or faculty-funded studentships or research assistantships.
• A list of all funding opportunities available to Laurier graduate students, including information about OGS, QEII and Tri-Council, is available on our graduate funding webpage.

Research Focus

Faculty teaching in our MES program support a wide range of research interests, such as:

• policy formulation and evaluation, sustainable development, and environmental management
• water resources
• energy resources
• protected areas
• provincial and national parks
• recreation
• tourism
• natural and human-induced hazards.

Requirements

• A four-year (honours) undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in geography or related program.
• A minimum B average.
• Applications are reviewed by the graduate program committee, which considers all prior university grades, a statement of research interests, a writing sample and letters of reference.

Careers

MES students who recently completed the program are employed by/as:

• municipal governments (Thunder Bay, Calgary)
• provincial government departments (Alberta Environment)
• federal government departments (Fisheries and Oceans)
• conservation authorities (Halton Hills)
• market and GIS analysts and technicians in industry (Loblaws, de Beers, BMO Financial, MDA, Central Southern China Electric Power Design Institute, China Railway First Survey and Design Institute, Cogeco, Ecopia Tech, InferUrban)
• lab technicians, research assistants (University of Waterloo)
• independent consultants with international organizations (United Nations Development Programme)