Queen's-Waterloo Joint Program Admission

The Joint program is available to students enrolled in either the BMath or BCS Honours Co-op programs at the University of Waterloo. The total duration for the Joint program is five years.  Accepted candidates attend Queen's Faculty of Education from September to the end of April, following their third year at the University of Waterloo. 

Within the eight-month Bachelor of Education program at Queen's, teacher candidates participate in thirteen weeks of in-school teaching practicum as well as a three week alternative practicum.  For more information on the practicum, please refer to our frequently asked questions. The Queen's BEd program may be changing to a ten-month program. When that change occurs, the schedule for the five-year Joint program will be altered accordingly.

 

Application Process

  1. Interested applicants who are registered in the BMath or BCS Honours Co-op programs at the University of Waterloo must contact the Director, Barry Ferguson, in the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, about the Joint program in or before the first term of their second year.
  2. Applicants will be interviewed in the first term of their second year. Only applicants who are pre-screened by the Director may apply to the Queen's Faculty of Education.
  3. Pre-screened applicants will submit an application in the first term of their third year.  Complete applications have three components: the application form, Personal Statement of Experience (PSE), and application fee.  Application forms and PSE questions are available from the Faculty of Mathematics. Complete applications must be received by the Faculty of Mathematics by the deadline date, on or before 1 December.  The Faculty of Mathematics will send complete applications and copies of applicants' transcripts to Queen's Education Registrar's Office. Applicants will be informed of admission decisions by early April in a letter from the Education Registrar.

Note: applicants must have Mathematics as one of their two teaching subjects, and either Computer Studies, Science - Biology, Science - Chemistry, or Science - Physics as their second teaching subject.  If Computer Studies is the first teaching subject, the second teaching subject must be Mathematics.

 

Selection of applicants is based on:

  1. Satisfying the University of Waterloo Joint Program application requirements (an interview and satisfactory academic and work-term performance)
  2. The number of spaces available in the teaching subject requested
  3. The score from the Personal Statement of Experience
  4. The score based on the academic average

The scores from c and d above have equal weight.

 

Program Information

(Includes University of Waterloo and Queen's University degree requirements, work/study sequence, and required courses for the IS teaching subjects)