Admission Requirements

Applicants are normally required to hold an undergraduate degree in a related field with a minimum of 3.0 GPA on SFU’s 4.33 scale (B average or 70%). Applications from students with other degrees or with equivalent professional training and experience will also be considered. Please refer to the “Graduate General Regulations” in the SFU Calendar for more information.

Applicants whose native language is not English and whose education has been conducted in a language other than English are required to submit English Language test scores (TOEFL or IELTS). SFU code: 0999; REM code: 46.

Ph.D. applicants are expected to submit GRE scores (general test) as part of their application. SFU code: 0999; REM code 0110.

Statistics Requirement
A prerequisite for entry into the School of Resource and Environmental Management requires that applicants must have completed an undergraduate course in parametric and nonparametric statistics.

REM faculty expect that new students will have acquired and be familiar with the following concepts/methods prior to entry in the School: describing distributions graphically and quantitatively (e.g. mean, median, standard deviation), basic concepts of statistical inference (e.g. calculating test statistics and comparing p-values with an alpha value), basic inferential tests (t-tests, simple ANOVA, chi-square), and simple linear regression and correlation.

Entry-level undergraduate statistics and data analysis courses normally cover the above concepts.