1. Students should have a good practical knowledge of farming under eastern Canadian conditions. One year of experience is recommended, but under special conditions a four-month summer season is acceptable.
2. The minimum academic entrance requirements are a Quebec Secondary School Diploma (SSD) or its equivalent and the successful completion of the following five courses:
   • Secondary IV: History and Citizenship Education or History of Quebec and Canada
   • Secondary IV: Science and Technology or Applied Science and Technology or Physical Science
   • Secondary IV: Mathematics
   • Secondary V: Language of Instruction
   • Secondary V: Second Language
3. The minimum entrance requirements for students from Ontario are the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD), as well as:
   • grade 10 French as a second language
   • science: SNC2P (recommended with TCJ20 or TDJ20 or TMJ20) or SNC2D (desired with TCJ20 or TDJ20 or TMJ20)
   • mathematics: MFM2P or MPM2D

   For other Canadian students, the minimum French requirement is grade 10 second language. Please contact the department for more information.

   For international students, a recognized French proficiency test may be required. An English proficiency test may also be required. For details on proof of English proficiency, visit mcgill.ca/applying/requirements/prep.

4. All candidates for admission must make arrangements to come to the Macdonald Campus for an interview prior to admission to the program.
5. Admission to this program is only in the Fall semester.
6. We strongly encourage incoming students to acquire their driver’s permit (both for cars and farm equipment) before coming to Macdonald Campus. This is first for safety reasons, given that students may work with farm equipment during the first semester. As well, most farmers require their employees and trainees (stagiaires) to drive and possess the appropriate driver’s license.

Students in the Farm Management and Technology program must register online using Minerva at mcgill.ca/minerva for each semester at McGill.

In their first semester, students who fail half or more of the courses for which they are registered or obtain a weighted average grade below 60% in their first term in the FMT program are placed in unsatisfactory standing and are required to withdraw from the program for a period of at least one semester. If after this period, students wish to be readmitted, they must apply in writing to the Director of the Program.

After the first semester, when a student’s cumulative weighted average grade or semestrial weighted average grade drop below 60%, or when a student fails half or more of the courses for which he/she is registered in any one term, the student is placed on academic probation. Students on probation may be limited to a maximum of 10 credits for the following semester, if the Director and/or the Associate Director believe this action to be in the best interest of the student. Course registration is subject to approval by the Associate Director for the following semester.

Students who are on academic probation for two semesters in a row are placed on unsatisfactory standing and are asked to withdraw from the Program. They may apply in writing to the Director or Associate-Director for readmission after a 6 to 12-month waiting period.

Any student who is readmitted to the FMT Program after having been placed on unsatisfactory standing is automatically placed on academic probation for the semester into which he/she is readmitted. The conditions mentioned in the second paragraph above still apply.

The regulations and policies governing student rights and responsibilities at McGill University are published jointly by the Dean of Students’ Office and the Secretariat and can be found at mcgill.ca/secretariat/policies-and-regulations.

The policy has the following objectives:

• to establish and explain the principles followed in evaluating student learning;
• to describe the means of translating these principles into practice and to establish the required procedures;
• to articulate the appropriate responsibilities of students, instructors, departments, and academic administrators;
• to account to students, parents, universities, and employers for the standards of learning at the campus;
• to create an environment of awareness and free discussion of pedagogical concerns within all segments of the campus community;
• to provide information that will allow students to more fully understand and participate in the educational process;
• to provide the framework within which instructors and academic administrators can exercise their professional judgment in a competent, just, and coherent fashion.

Copies are available in the Library and students are informed of it at registration.