Admission Requirements | Health Quality Programs

Master of Science in Health Quality Prerequisites

Master of Science in Health Quality

Those interested applying to this program should refer the School of Graduate Studies Academic Calendar for up-to-date graduate school requirements. Prospective students applying for admission to the program will normally have to have graduated with a minimum of a second class standing (B, 73%) from an accredited, baccalaureate granting University, with a preferred degree in a healthcare discipline, law, business, engineering, or policy studies.

Statistics Course

Students are required to have taken a undergraduate university course (worth three course credits) in statistics to be accepted into the program. Eligible statistic courses must include the following components:

Data collection
Levels of Measurement: nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio
Mean, median, mode, standard deviation, confidence intervals, normal distribution
Excel spreadsheets and data entry
Probability, p values, alpha and beta
Sensitivity and specificity, Type I and Type II errors, power (overview)
Sampling from a population
Chi Square
Student t-Test
Mann-Whitney U
Paired sample t-tests, Wilcoxon
ANOVA
Kruskal-Wallis
Repeated Measures ANOVA
Correlation, Spearman Brown
Relative Risk, Odds Ratio
Regression

If you have previously taken an undergraduate-level statistics course but it did not meet these requirements or you have not taken one at all, you will need to complete an undergraduate-level statistics course that does before you can enter the program. The prerequisite statistics course must be completed prior to enrollment in the program (an official transcript with the grade must be received prior to registration). We encourage prospective applicants who do not have this requirement to complete an online statistics course from January – April. For students who have not completed a statistics course, we recommend taking the Queen’s University online STAM 200 course as an “interest student”. More information about this course can be found here.

Please note that the adjudication committee does reserve the right to request applicants provide their statistics course syllabi for review, should they feel that course merits further evaluation before deeming it eligible. The committee reserves the right to decline applicants if they feel the course does not fulfill the program's admission criteria.

If you are applying for the MBA + MScHQ dual degree, please also refer to the Admission Requirements specific to entering this program.

Doctor of Philosophy in Health Quality Prerequisites

Applicants who have a project based or thesis based research master’s degree in health, health-related law, business, architecture, or engineering will be eligible to apply for admission. Potential applicants who have master’s degrees in other disciplines can still be eligible, but are encouraged to discuss the suitability of the degree with the Associate Director prior to applying. The overall grade point average required is B+ at the master’s level as per the School of Graduate Studies’ regulation.

Applicants from under-represented groups will be encouraged to apply and specifically recruited to ensure the applicant pool reflects the population of Canada. As the program is offered predominantly online, students are not required to relocate to Kingston for the program as they are only required to be on campus for one-week periods at select times over the four years.

English Language Proficiency

Proficiency in English is a prerequisite for admission. Those applicants whose native languages do not include English will need to earn satisfactory standing in an English Language Proficiency Test as part of the application process, and before final acceptance is granted. For additional information and minimum required test results, please check the School of Graduate Studies’ website under Testing Requirements.

If your first language is not English, but within the 12-month period prior to the month of application, you have studied for at least one complete year at a post-secondary institution where English is the official language of instruction, may submit with your application and a request to be exempted from the English language proficiency test requirement to sgspa.reception@queensu.ca . The Director of Admissions, School of Graduate Studies, will review the request and then you will be informed of the results of the review.