Graduate Students: Getting Started
Find information about accepting your offer, admission deposit, and admission deferral, in addition to campus resources as you start your graduate student journey.
The Science Student Centre will be holding a new graduate student Welcome Session on Wednesday, September 9, 4pm-6pm. More details will be shared via email.
I've Been Admitted: What's next?
Accept your offer of admission by clicking on the Accept button in your Student Centre. If you’ve been admitted to your second-choice program, you’ll continue to be considered for your first-choice program.
Your non-refundable admission deposit will be applied toward your first-year tuition fees. Remember that online payments can take up to seven days to process. We suggest you submit your payment a minimum of seven days before your deadline date to avoid complications. Deposit payments are considered received once they are posted to the student account.
Students can request an admission deferral of their start term in an exceptional circumstance that is unforeseen, extraordinary, and short-term in nature, and which has a clear, definitive end date (i.e., study permit delays).
Students may request to defer their program for up to 1 full academic year. Deferrals are considered on a case-by-case basis, and must be supported by the Graduate Program Director and the Supervisor when applicable. Approval is not guaranteed.
Academic Programs
Training
- You are required to complete WHMIS 2015, Laboratory Safety Training, and Spill Response training. Visit the Environment, Health, and Safety website here for more info.
Checklists
- You must complete your Student/Supervisor Expectations and Intellectual Property Awareness checklists, found here, and submit a copy to the Science Student Centre.
- Visit the Biological Sciences Procedures, Policies, and Forms webpage for more info.
Course Registration
- General regulations about graduate course registration can be found here.
- For your program requirements see here and instruction guides here.
- Please review your course requirement information and discuss your choice with your supervisor (if applicable).
Graduate Assistantship Teaching (GAT)
- For graduate funding information, please see here.
- Faculty of Science Funding Policy
Clubs
- Check out the Biology Graduate Students’ Association.
Contacts
- Graduate Program Director: Dr. Paul Galpern
- For questions about the MSc/PhD programs: Email sci.grad@ucalgary.ca
- For general (non-student advising) inquiries: Email biosci@ucalgary.ca
- Please be sure to include ‘BISI’ in your email subject line, and be sure to include your UCID number in the body of your email.
Training
- Please see here for Chemistry graduate student training requirements.
Checklists
- You must complete your Student/Supervisor Expectations and Intellectual Property Awareness checklists, found here, and submit a copy to the Science Student Centre.
Course Registration
- General regulations about graduate course registration can be found here.
- See program requirements here, and instruction guides here.
Graduate Assistantship Teaching (GAT)
- For graduate funding information, please see here.
- Faculty of Science Funding Policy
Clubs
- Check out the Chemistry Student Community.
Contacts
- Graduate Program Director: Dr. Todd Sutherland
- For questions about the MSc/PhD programs: Email sci.grad@ucalgary.ca
- For general (non-student advising) inquiries: Email chem.info@ucalgary.ca
- Please be sure to include ‘CHEM’ in your email subject line, and be sure to include your UCID number in the body of your email.
Checklists
- You must complete your Student/Supervisor Expectations and Intellectual Property Awareness checklists, found here, and submit a copy to the Science Student Centre.
Course Registration
- General regulations about graduate course registration can be found here.
- For your program requirements, see here, and instruction guides here.
- Please review your course requirement information and discuss your choice with your supervisor. Submit the course plan for satisfying degree requirements in conjunction with your supervisor.
- Course approval forms can be found here (MSc) and here (PhD).
Graduate Assistantship Teaching (GAT)
- For graduate funding information, please see here.
- Faculty of Science Funding Policy
Clubs
- Check out the Computer Science Student Community.
Contacts
- Graduate Program Director: Dr. Philipp Woelfel
- For questions about the MSc/PhD programs: Email sci.grad@ucalgary.ca
- For general (non-student advising) inquiries: Email cpsc@ucalgary.ca
- For TA assignment inquiries: Email ta.assignments@ucalgary.ca
- Please be sure to include ‘CPSC’ in your email subject line,, and be sure to include your UCID number in the body of your email.
Checklists
- You must complete your Student/Supervisor Expectations and Intellectual Property Awareness checklists, found here, and submit a copy to the Science Student Centre.
Course Registration
- General regulations about graduate course registration can be found here.
- For your program requirements, see here, and instruction guides here.
- Please review your course requirement information and discuss your choice with your supervisor. Submit the course plan for satisfying degree requirements in conjunction with your supervisor.
Graduate Assistantship Teaching (GAT)
- For graduate funding information, please see here.
- Faculty of Science Funding Policy
Clubs
- Check out the Computational Media Design Students’ Association.
- Please also refer to the Computer Science Student Community.
Contacts
- Graduate Program Director: Dr. Mayra Barrera Machuca
- For questions about the MSc/PhD programs: Email sci.grad@ucalgary.ca
- For general (non-student advising) inquiries: Email cpsc@ucalgary.ca
- Please be sure to include ‘CMD’ in your email subject line, and be sure to include your UCID number in the body of your email.
Checklists
- You must complete your Student/Supervisor Expectations and Intellectual Property Awareness checklists, found here, and submit a copy to the Science Student Centre.
Course Registration
- General regulations about graduate course registration can be found here and instruction guides here.
- Program requirements can be found here.
- Please review your course requirement information and discuss your choice with your supervisor (if applicable).
Graduate Assistantship Teaching (GAT)
- For graduate funding information, please see here.
- Faculty of Science Funding Policy
Clubs
- Check out the Graduate Association of Geology and Geophysics Students.
Contacts
- Graduate Program Director: Dr. Per Pedersen
- For questions about the MSc/PhD programs: Email sci.grad@ucalgary.ca
- For general (non-student advising) inquiries: Email earth@ucalgary.ca
- Please be sure to include ‘ERTH’ in your email subject line, and be sure to include your UCID number in the body of your email.
Checklists
- You must complete your Student/Supervisor Expectations and Intellectual Property Awareness checklists, found here, and submit a copy to the Science Student Centre.
Course Registration
- All students must complete the 600-level research seminar course. You also need to register in other courses according to program course requirements:
- Program requirements can be found here.
- Thesis-based students should discuss their course selection with their supervisors
- Course-based students should discuss their course selection with:
- Actuarial Science:
- Rohana Ambagiapodia (ambagasp@ucalgary.ca)
- Mathematical Finance:
- Anatoliy Swishchuk (aswish@ucalgary.ca)
- Deniz Sezer (adsezer@ucalgary.ca)
- Jinniao Qiu (jinniao.qiu@ucalgary.ca)
- Mathematics:
- Dang Khoa Nguyen (dangkhoa.nguyen@ucalgary.ca)
- Adam Bene-Watts (adam.benewatts@ucalgary.ca)
- Pouria Ramazi (pouria.ramazi@ucalgary.ca)
- Statistics/Biostatistics:
- Hua Shen (hua.shen@ucalgary.ca)
- Qingrun Zhang (qingrun.zhang@ucalgary.ca)
- Haixu Wang (haixu.wang@ucalgary.ca)
- Mina Aminghafari (mina.aminghafari@ucalgary.ca
- Actuarial Science:
- See registration instruction guides here.
Graduate Assistantship Teaching (GAT)
- For graduate funding information, please see here.
- Please also see this page for MTST-specific GAT information.
- Faculty of Science Funding Policy
Clubs
- Check out the Mathematics and Statistics Student Community.
Contacts
- Graduate Program Director: Dr. Jingjing Wu
- For questions about the MSc/PhD programs: Email sci.grad@ucalgary.ca
- For general (non-student advising) inquiries: Email mathadmin@ucalgary.ca
- Any course-based or supervisor issues, contact the GPD at mathgraddirector@ucalgary.ca
- Please be sure to include ‘MTST’ in your email subject line, and be sure to include your UCID number in the body of your email.
Checklists
- You must complete your Student/Supervisor Expectations and Intellectual Property Awareness checklists, found here, and submit a copy to the Science Student Centre.
Course Registration
- General regulations about graduate course registration can be found here.
- Program requirements can be found here.
- For Radiation Oncology Physics students:
- Please review your course requirement information and discuss your choice with your supervisor (if applicable). Then, complete your Course Approval form here.
- See registration instruction guides here.
Graduate Assistantship Teaching (GAT)
- For graduate funding information, please see here.
- Faculty of Science Funding Policy
Clubs
- Check out the Physics and Astronomy Student Community.
Contacts
- Graduate Program Director: Dr. Christoph Simon
- For questions about the MSc/PhD programs: Email sci.grad@ucalgary.ca
- For general (non-student advising) inquiries: Email phasoffice@ucalgary.ca
- Please be sure to include ‘PHAS’ in your email subject line, and be sure to include your UCID number in the body of your email.
Professional Programs
Foundational material links can be found here.
Orientation
- DATA L01 orientation will take place on August 31, 12:00pm - 1:00pm.
- DATA L02 orientation will take place on August 31, 3:30pm - 5:00pm.
Course Registration
- For course requirements, see the Program Webpage.
- To enroll in your courses, use your Student Centre and see here for instruction guides.
Program Progression
- For laddered-entry students, please see the Data Science homepage and the University Calendar.
Contacts
- Visit the Science Student Centre
Foundational material links can be found here.
Orientation
- ISEC L01 orientation will take place on August 24, 12:00pm - 1:00pm.
- ISEC L02 orientation will take place on September 8, 12:30pm - 1:30pm.
Course Registration
- For course requirements, see the Program Webpage.
- To enroll in your courses, use your Student Centre and see here for instruction guides.
Program Progression
- For laddered-entry students, please see the Information Security homepage and the University Calendar.
Contacts
- Visit the Science Student Centre
Orientation
- QUAC orientation will take place on August 31, 1:30pm - 3:00pm.
Course Registration
- For course requirements, see the Program Webpage.
- To enroll in your courses, use your Student Centre and see here for instruction guides.
Program Progression
- For laddered-entry students, please see the Quantum Computing homepage and the University Calendar.
Contacts
- Visit the Science Student Centre