About BASE

BASE is a 4- or 8-month program that allows you to improve your reading, writing, and speaking skills with a focus on using English in a university setting while earning credit towards your Waterloo degree.

Arts/BASE

Global Business and Digital Arts*, Honours Arts, Social Development Studies, Honours Arts and Business.

Health/BASE

Health Sciences^*, Kinesiology^*, Public Health^*, and Recreation and Leisure Studies^.

Engineering/BASE

All Engineering programs* except Architecture.

Mathematics/BASE

Computer Science^, Mathematics/Business Administration^, Mathematics/Financial Analysis and Risk Management (Math/FARM)^, Mathematics^

The Faculty of Mathematics offers the iBASE program and the 1-term (4 month) BASE program only. See MATH NOTE.

Environment/BASE

Climate and Environmental Change*^; Environment and Business*^; Environment, Resources and Sustainability*^; Geography and Environmental Management^; Geomatics^; Knowledge Integration; Planning*^. Sustainability and Financial Management and Geography and Aviation is not available through BASE.

Science/BASE

All programs^ except Biotechnology/Chartered Professional Accountancy and Science and Aviation.

* You will be enrolled in 2 terms of the BASE program, due to course sequencing.
If you apply to a co-op program, you'll be offered co-op immediately after BASE.

MATH NOTE: If you've applied to Mathematics/Chartered Professional Accountancy (CPA), Computing and Financial Management, Mathematics Double Degree, and Computer Science Double Degree, and are eligible for BASE we will consider you for a Mathematics program that offers BASE.