Special Student Admission

(Excerpt from the School of Graduate Studies Calendar)

A Special Student is a graduate or equivalent who elects to take one or more graduate courses, but who is not registered in a graduate degree program at Queen's University. Students who register in this category do so normally as enrichment to their professional fields.

Special students are not entitled to audit courses.
Fees will be charged per course.
A student who takes courses in this manner is not allowed a waiver of normal entrance requirements to any subsequent graduate degree program.
Upon the recommendation of the graduate department or program to Division, and with the agreement of the School of Graduate Studies and Research, up to 50% of the course work requirement of a specific graduate degree program may consist of graduate course credits earned while a special student, provided that those graduate course credits have not been credited towards any other degree of any kind.

Special Student Application Procedures

To apply for admission as a Special Student the following documentation is required:

a paper-based application form
$85 application fee (cheque payable to Queen's University)
2 original copies of all university transcripts
2 academic references commenting on your ability to pursue graduate study (professional references are acceptable if it has been more than five years since you completed your most recent university degree)
1 copy of your resume/c.v.
a brief letter listing the course(s) you want to take and the term(s) in which you want to take them
official TOEFL report (if applicable)*

Special Student Application Deadlines

Fall term - July 31st

Winter term - November 30th

Summer term - May 31st

Language of Instruction and Communication

At Queen's University English is the language of instruction and communication. Proficiency in English is, therefore, a prerequisite for admission. Applicants whose first language is not English or who have not recently studied for at least one complete year at a post-secondary institution where English is the official language of instruction, will be required to obtain satisfactory results in an English language proficiency test (580 or higher on the paper-based test), as part of the application process. Those tests recognized by the School of Graduate Studies and Research are the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), and the Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB). Both of these tests are offered widely around the world. International students applying to Queen's should arrange to take one of these tests in sufficient time for the results to be available at the time of application. An official score report must be submitted with the application for admission (Inst. Code 0949, Dept. 85). To be competitive applicants should also achieve a minimum of 4.5 on the Test of Written English (TWE).

TOEFL Service-ETS

Box 6151
Princeton, NJ 08541-6151, USA.
Courier: TOEFL Services, Receiving and Distribution Center
225 Phillips Blvd.
Box 77435, Ewing, NJ, 08628 USA.
Phone: 609-771-7100;
Fax: 609-711-7500.
toefl@ets.org

Additional Information

please call us at (613) 533-6206 to request an application form
our current timetable can be found on our website at: http://educ.queensu.ca/graduate/timetables/index.shtml
brief calendar descriptions of our courses can be found on the School of Graduate Studies website at: http://www.queensu.ca/calendars/sgsr/pg293.html