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Graduate Studies

Forms and policies for graduate students, staff and faculty

The Graduate Calendar holds important information including regulations governing graduate degrees, requirements of each program, student code of conduct, and more.

Graduate Calendar

Students

Information Box Group

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Academic Advisement – Accessing Reports

The Academic Advisement report tool is a way to track your progress towards graduation via completion of your curriculum requirements.

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Understanding your Academic Advisement Report

Learn how to read your report

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Application for Re-Admission

Updated September 2024

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Audit a graduate course

Updated February 2023

WEBSITE

Campus map

Directions to campus, campus map, public transit links.

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Canadian University Graduate Transfer Agreement

Updated February 2023

DOCX

Career Planning Template

For engineering students

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Comprehensive Exam First Attempt Failure

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Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities

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Early Conferral Request form

For more information on requesting an early conferral, please review the policy. Updated July 2022.

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Field Research RMM 801

Field trips, student placements and research activity planning and approval program. This link will take you to another McMaster website.

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Field Research – RMM 801 supplementary guidelines

Field trips, student placements and research activity planning and approval program (supplementary guidelines). This link will take you to another McMaster website.

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Final thesis submission sheet

Updated June 2024

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Graduate Expectations Arising from the McMaster Vaccination Policy (PDF version)

Sept 2021

DOCX

Graduate Expectations Arising from the McMaster Vaccination Policy (Word version)

Sept 2021

PDF

Getting the Supervisory Relationship Off to a Good Start

Updated December 2023

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Guide for preparing Doctoral and Masters theses

Updated August 2021

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In-program request form

Updated February 2023

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Letter Request form

Updated February 2023.

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Non-Graded PhD Supervisory Committee meeting report

Updated February 2023

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Ontario Visiting Graduate Student application

Updated September 2024

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Ontario Visiting Graduate Student notification of withdrawal

Updated February 2023.

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Parenting Leave form

Updated January 2023.

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Petitions for Special Consideration to the Committee on Graduate Admissions and Study

Updated February 2023

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Referee’s Report on Graduate Applicant

Updated February 2023

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Request Change of Name on McMaster Student Records

Updated February 2023

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Request for Certified Copies of Non-McMaster Transcripts

For current McMaster graduate students. Updated February 2023

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Request for change in a graduate student’s status

Updated February 2023

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Request for Extension Form

Updated April 2024

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Request for Late Add and/or Drop

Updated February 2023

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Request to be full-time off campus

Updated February 2023

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Student Guide to Service Requests

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Student guide to the thesis defence process

Updated January 2024

WEBSITE

Transcript request

Types of transcripts and how to read them.

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Request for program change

Updated May 2024

Financial

Information Box Group

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Applying for awards

WEBSITE

GSA Benefits

WEBSITE

OSAP/financial aid

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Tuition

DOCX

Tuition payable by an external agency

Updated July 2022.

WEBSITE

UHIP

Faculty & Staff

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Application for post-retirement supervision of a graduate student

Updated February 2023

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Comprehensive Exam First Attempt Failure

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Comprehensive results to be recorded on graduate student transcript

Updated October 2023

DOCX

Condition clearing checklist (cover sheet)

Updated July 2022

DOCX

Curriculum changes – courses

DOCX

Curriculum changes – program changes

PDF

Definitions of experiential work as defined by OSAP

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Final thesis submission sheet

Updated June 2024

DOCX

Getting the Supervisory Relationship Off to a Good Start (accessible download)

January 2024

PDF

Graduate Expectations Arising from the McMaster Vaccination Policy (PDF version)

Sept 2021

DOCX

Graduate Expectations Arising from the McMaster Vaccination Policy (Word version)

Sept 2021

PDF

Graduate program handbook checklist

WEBSITE

Graduate program handbooks

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Graduate program handbooks

A MacSphere repository of handbooks.

WEBSITE

Graduate Studies Administrator Toolkit

DOCX

Graduate Studies Vanier approval form

Updated June 2024

PDF

Graduate Work Supervision Guidelines

For Faculty and students.

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Graduate work supervision guidelines for faculty and students

DOCX

iThenticate How-To Guide for Supervisors

Updated January 2024

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Licence to McMaster University

Updated February 2023.

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Masters supervisory committee report

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Milestone results

Updated April 2023.

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Non-course results to be recorded on graduate student transcript

Updated February 2023

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Non-Exclusive Licence

Updated February 2023

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Non-Graded PhD Supervisory Committee meeting report

Updated February 2023

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Non-thesis clear to graduate form

Updated June 2023

WEBSITE

PhD Supervision

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Request for change in a graduate student’s status

Updated February 2023

DOCX

Request for condition clearing exception

Updated November 2022

WEBSITE

SGS administrator toolkit

Student guide to the PhD defence

Updated January 2024

DOCX

Vanier application

Updated June 2024

DOCX

Vanier Stage 1 Checklist

Fall 2023