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Minimum grade and CGPA requirements
Non-honours students must receive a minimum grade of C in all required and complementary courses used to fulfill program requirements.
Courses in which you have received a final grade of D can count for elective credit only. You will not earn additional credits if repeating a course.
The minimum CGPA required to graduate is 2.0.
Grade and CGPA requirements for honours programs
Honours Agricultural & Environmental Sciences (except Environment major), Bioresource Engineering, Food Science, and concurrent Food Science/Nutritional Sciences degrees
- Admission: Minimum CGPA of 3.3
- Program: Grade of B (3.0) or higher in all honours courses
- Graduation: Minimum overall CGPA of 3.3
B.Sc. (Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)—Environment Honours
- Admission: Minimum CGPA of 3.3
- Program: Grade of B (3.0) or higher in honours research courses (ENVR 495D1 & 495D2)
- Graduation: Minimum overall CGPA of 3.0 and program CGPA of 3.3
B.Sc. (Nutritional Sciences)—Nutrition Honours
- Admission: U2 students in the Nutrition Major with CGPA ≥ 3.6 and A- or higher in all NUTR courses may apply in winter term. You must secure a professor to supervise your research project.
- Graduation: Minimum 90 credits completed, CGPA ≥ 3.6, and A- or higher in all NUTR courses.
Minimum credit requirements
You must complete at minimum the number of credits indicated on your Minerva transcript to graduate.
Residency requirements
Minimum number of credits completed at McGill
Students in the Bioresource Engineering program must complete at least 72 credits at McGill.
All other students in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences must complete at least 60 credits at McGill.
Minimum number of credits completed at Macdonald Campus
All students in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences must also complete at least 2/3 of their credits at Macdonald Campus.
Students admitted with advanced standing must complete 2/3 of their remaining credits at Macdonald Campus.
The prescribed course sequence followed by Dietetics students inherently meets this requirement.
For this calculation, ENVR courses count as Macdonald Campus courses even if taken on the Downtown Campus.
Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory courses
Courses taken with the Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory (S/U) option will not count towards your foundation year or program requirements.
You may only take one S/U elective course per term, to a maximum of 10% of your total McGill resident credits.