Admissions Requirements

• Four-year undergraduate degree from a recognized, accredited university (use the World Higher Education Database to verify)
• Transcripts from this degree should show 90-120 earned credit hours
• Graduate degrees from a recognized, accredited university (use the World Higher Education Database to verify) are accepted but applicants will still need to provide unofficial transcripts for both their four-year undergraduate degree as well as their graduate degree
• Successful applicants who are enrolled in studies, undergraduate or graduate, at the time of application will receive an admission offer which is CONDITIONAL upon the successful completion of their degree by August 31 of the year of application. This includes coursework, clinical practice, thesis defense and final thesis submission to your Faculty of Graduate Studies. It is expected that such students will apply during their last year of study since deferrals are rarely granted. If you are enrolled in a graduate level program and are unable to confirm your conferred degree by the August 31 deadline, the Admissions Committee will evaluate on a case-by-case basis.
• If your degree is granted from an accredited university outside of Canada a World Evaluation Services course-by-course assessment is required to be submitted by the Section 2 deadline. If you participated in an exchange program or attended university outside of Canada and the wish to include these courses in the 60 most recent credit hours for GPA calculation, then numerical or alphabetical course grades from the exchange are required to be submitted. If alpha-numerical grades for the exchange courses are not reflected on your home university transcript, the applicant is required to obtain a World Education Services course-by-course assessment. This WES assessment is required to be submitted as part of the application.

• Minimum 3.0 GPA (on a 4.0 scale) or B average
• Calculated using the last 60 credits hours of study 
• For applicants with graduate degrees, up to 15 credit hours can be applied in GPA calculation
• Pass/Fail grades cannot be used in GPA calculation
• All pre-requisite course grades (alpha/numerical) are required to be used in GPA calculation
• Based on previous admission cycles, a 3.7 GPA is considered competitive

All three prerequisite courses must be completed and submitted prior to the deadline for section 2.  

The prerequisite courses must be minimum 3.0 credit courses. If the Human Anatomy and Physiology course taken was combined, you must have credit for 6.0 and list both components to fulfill the prerequisite course requirements. (e.g., AN/PHYL 1001 and 1002, Anatomy and Physiology I and II). If your Human Anatomy, Physiology or Biochemistry course is divided into two parts (e.g., human physiology I and II), you must complete both parts to fulfill the prerequisite course requirements, even though this will total 6 units instead of 3 units.

Prerequisite courses must have been completed within 10 years prior to the application year.

All applicants require the following three (3) pre-requisite courses (minimum 3 credit hours):

- Human Anatomy
- Human Physiology
- Biochemistry

• All pre-requisites must be at minimum, undergraduate-level courses completed at a recognized, accredited university (use the World Higher Education Database to verify). Courses completed at colleges or other post-secondary institutions that are not recognized, accredited universities will not be accepted.
• All pre-requisite courses are required to be used in GPA calculation. That is, grades (alpha/numerical) for these courses must be reflected on your transcript at the time of application.
• If you are unsure whether a course meets the prerequisite requirements, please send the course syllabus to the MPAS Program Office for approval at pa.admissions@dal.ca.

• Starting with the 2026 application cycle (for January 2027 entry), four seats will be allocated for Maritime applicants — three for New Brunswick and one for Prince Edward Island. 20 of the 24 seats will be prioritized for Nova Scotia residents. If these 20 seats are not filled, other Maritime applicants will be considered.
• Applicants from outside of the Maritime Provinces and those who are not permanent residents will not be considered.
• See our Place of Residence page for more details on residency requirements

CASPer assesses for non-cognitive skills and interpersonal characteristics we believe are important for successful students and graduates of our program and will complement our other applicant screening tools. In implementing CASPer, we are trying to further enhance fairness and objectivity in our selection process. Successful completion of CASPer is mandatory in order to maintain admission eligibility. See our CASPer Requirement page for more details.

Two letters of reference are required for admission into the MPAS program. These letters are normally required to be from academics familiar with your work but may be replaced with relevant professional references for some course-based professional master's programs. See our Reference Letters Requirement page for more details.

Admissions requirements are reviewed annually and the admissions requirements from previous years may not apply. Please monitor our website for up-to-date information.