Program guidelines

You will find your official program requirements, including required courses and milestones, in the University of Waterloo Graduate Studies Calendar.

You can find the forms needed to make program or supervisor changes on the Graduate Studies Office forms page.
Visit the Registration and Enrolment page for more information about UWaterloo Graduate Studies policies.
Academic deadlines are published for the current term as well as two future terms.
- Note that some awards and program deadline for departments will be earlier than these posted deadline. Contact your Departmental Program Coordinator/Advisor if you have any questions.

Degree Completion Deadlines

If you are working on a thesis, you may want to consider the deadlines for each step of your thesis and still graduate before the deadline that is important to you. Please visit the link below to learn about degree completion deadlines and Thesis completion deadlines.

Steps to graduate

Please review the page linked below, to ensure you have completed all of your program's degree requirements in time for graduation.

Thesis and Exams

All PhD students at the University of Waterloo are required to successfully complete the PhD Comprehensive Exam. For more information, please refer to the PhD Comprehensive Exam web page. GRADflix is a research communication opportunity for graduate students. Participants will create a video submission that describes their research. Visit the web page linked below, for more information about the GRADflix competition.

Program Changes

All program change requests will be reviewed by the Associate Dean, Graduate Studies. You and your supervisor(s) will be notified by your departmental coordinator once the transfer request has been approved or denied. Please visit the page below, to learn more about how to request a program change.