Admission is competitive, as shown by these average final-year high school grades—or the R score in Quebec’s CEGEP system—of first-year undergrads starting engineering school in fall 2009.
| Average Entering Grade | |
| Acadia | 86.9% |
| Alberta | 87% |
| UBC | 87.8% |
| Calgary | 85% |
| Carleton | 83.8% |
| Concordia | 80% / R score 26.24 |
| Guelph | 82.1%* |
| Lakehead | 81.8% |
| Laurentian | 79.4% |
| Laval | R score 27.648 |
| Manitoba | 90.4** |
| McGill | 88.8% / R score 30.41 |
| McMaster | 86.6% |
| Memorial | 86.7% |
| Moncton | 82.1% |
| École Polytechnique de Montréal | R score 29.477 |
| New Brunswick | 86.1% |
| UNBC | 88.6% |
| University of Ontario Institute of Technology | 77% |
| Ottawa | 80.9%* |
| UPEI | Not applicable |
| Québec à Chicoutimi | R score 25.5 |
| Québec à Montréal | R score 24.25 |
| Québec en Outaouais | Not applicable |
| École de technologie supérieure | Not applicable |
| Queen’s | 86.9%* |
| Regina | 83.5% |
| Royal Military College | 84.5% |
| Ryerson | 80% |
| St. Francis Xavier | 85.9% |
| Saskatchewan | 89% |
| Simon Fraser | 83.1% |
| Toronto | 90.3% |
| Victoria | 87%* |
| Waterloo | 89.2% |
| Western | 86.8% |
| Windsor | 82% |
| York | 83% |
Eight universities with engineering programs are not listed here. These institutions did not release their average entering grades to Maclean’s. *Grade average for fall 2008 incoming class. **Majority of students enter engineering after first year (University One).
Source: Engineering faculties and departments; Common University Data Ontario
