Enrolment/Admission Tracking

McMaster monitors student registrations, admissions, and graduation rates, including data on students with demonstrated financial need, through a comprehensive Student Records Database.

This Strategic Mandate Agreement (SMA) between the Ministry of Colleges and Universities and McMaster University is a key component of the Ontario government’s accountability framework for the postsecondary education system. The SMA establishes the corridor midpoint that will form the basis of enrolment-related funding over the five-year SMA3 period, supports transparency and azccountability objectives, and establishes allowable performance targets for 10 metrics upon which institutional performance will be assessed.

Equitable Admissions Pathways

McMaster strives to be an accessible, supportive and inclusive community. As part of our efforts to enhance equity in our programs, several mainstream programs offer equitable admission pathways to help mitigate barriers to post-secondary education.

• Equitable Admissions for Black Applicants
• Facilitated Indigenous Admissions Program (FIAP)
• Equitable Admissions Process for Black and/or Latin American/Latinx Applicants

Supporting Success for Low-Income Students

Government financial aid programs like the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP), can help pay for students’ tuition, student fees and other education-related expenses such as books, equipment, rent and more by offering loans and grants. OSAP/government aid is available for full-time AND part-time students in both undergraduate AND graduate studies. In addition, McMaster employs several bursaries and other awards, as well as programmes and research to ensure that students that fall into the bottom quintile (e.i. 20%) of household income group can access admission to our university and complete their studies.

Summer Transition Programs and Support

McMaster’s a community of communities, and our partners across campus offer additional options for transition programming. Students will find opportunities to meet new people and make friends, explore all that campus has to offer, receive valuable information and mentorship, learn how to apply for financial aid and source other funds — and other forms of support for their journey.

Access Program

McMaster’s Access Program connects equity-deserving students and those from historically under-represented backgrounds with information and support to set them up for success in university and provides an avenue for them to complete their studies.

Equity-deserving groups often include:

• Students with parents who did not attend, or complete, post-secondary studies (first-generation university students)
• Indigenous students
• Students with disabilities
• Certain racialized minority students (especially youth with Afro-Canadian and Latin American backgrounds)
• Students from low-income families and neighborhoods
• Adult learners who are new to post-secondary education
• Students from rural communities
• Women (in some disciplines)
• Students who wouldn’t attend post-secondary without additional programs or supports

The Access Award provides up to $20,000 per year for four years of post-secondary education at McMaster. Students also receive mentorship, employment options and academic supports to set them up for success.

The Exceptional Housing Costs Bursary

McMaster has made the Exceptional Housing Costs Bursary targeted to all undergraduate students studying at a McMaster campus who demonstrate financial need and are facing a sharp rise in their housing and/or commuting costs. This is one of the multiple bursaries that are offered to students on the basis of financial need and are designed to enable students from low-income backgrounds to attend our university and complete their degrees. The Office of the Registrar stewarded $635,000 in relief funds to 1,342 undergraduate and graduate students via the bursary.

Youth in Extended Society Care Bursary

Youth in Extended Society Care Bursary is another bursary that McMaster offers that targets some of the low-income student population and gives students who have been in the care of the Children’s Aid Society financial support at the time of admission and during their degree in the form of a non-repayable bursary.

Indigenous student bursary program – Jay Treaty Fee Adjustment for Indigenous Students

McMaster University is referencing their responsibilities under the Jay Treaty of 1794 by extending domestic (Ontario) tuition fees to Indigenous students whose ancestral homelands are within the United States or another Canadian province. The bursary will help students not only focus on their studies, but also give them time to connect with others and with their culture. It assists with not only tuition, but also cost of living expenses such as housing, childcare, food and transportation.

Aids and Awards

The Aids and Awards page also includes information on many aid programs that are available at the time of admission and throughout students’ education at McMaster, including needs-based programs and awards for equity-deserving groups like Indigenous and Black students.

Please see our statistics on financial aid given by the University in 2023-2024 school year found on Page 56 of the Fact Book. Notably, McMaster provided $13.7 million in bursaries to students this year and $72,865,594 in grants were awarded to McMaster students through the Ontario Student Assistance Program. Through our awards of needs-based aid to students, McMaster takes action to make sure that low-income students can afford to attend and graduate from our university.

Work Program

The McMaster Work Program gives students who demonstrate financial need opportunities to work on campus part-time (max 10 hours/week) during the fall/winter terms and part- or full-time (max 35-40 hours/week) over the summer.

There are more than 1250 jobs available with more than 100 different McMaster departments/offices. Positions range from administrative support and customer service, to athletic coordinators to research roles.

Emergency Financial Support

Emergency Financial Support is available for students who have exhausted other financial aid options and have immediate and unexpected expenses leading to financial hardship.

 

Low Income Country Students

In 2023, International students represented over 125 countries, and account for 17% of the student body. The majority of international students are from China (52.1%), India (14.1%), Iran (4.9%), South Korea (2.3%) and Nigeria (2.1%).

Funds Finder

With over $20 million in awards, ranging from $10,000-$200,000, your aspirations to pursue a world-class degree and shape the future are within reach. Students with a refugee status are eligible for 1214 different types of awards, and visa students are eligible for 581.

Students at Risk Bursary (SARB) supporting forcibly displaced students

The fund was established in 2022 to support students forcibly displaced due to armed conflict, persecution, terrorism, human rights violations, the adverse effects of climate change, natural disasters, or a combination of these factors.

New International and Exchange Students

McMaster supports international students through a range of programs and access initiatives that help ease the often challenging cultural and financial transitions of studying abroad.

• If you’re an incoming first-year student, the Buddy Program will automatically be paired with an upper–year student from your Faculty once you have accepted your offer to attend McMaster University.
• McMaster Also hosts a series of workshops and webinars helping students transition to university life.
• International students are greeted at Toronto Pearson Airport, by student volunteers to help you commute to Hamilton safely.
• In 2018, the Ignite Program was created to address the specific needs identified by international students, who found participating in Welcome Week activities challenging. Designed for first-year international students, who will be staying in residence, Ignite creates a space to settle in before Welcome Week. This program is in partnership with the Student Success Centre and Housing & Conference Services.
• Welcome Week includes academic and social programming, interactive games and activities, Faculty-based events and opportunities to connect with other incoming and upper-year students along with staff and faculty. There is international student-specific programming, including an orientation to connect on campus.

Success Coaching

When you’re getting settled as a new McMaster student, there are a number of issues you need to get sorted before you can start pursuing your goals for success. Some of these issues include housing, transportation, food and dining and language support.

• On-Campus Housing: Residence provides housing and meal plans for undergraduate students. Applications for residence must be submitted online through Housing and Conference Services before the deadline in June. Students are encouraged to indicate whether they require special accommodations.
• Off-Camous Housing: You can find affordable student housing options that are still close to campus. To help you search for off-campus housing, check out the Mac Off-Campus Housing website for student rental listings. You can also explore rentals and sublets through the McMaster International and Exchange (M.I.X.) Club’s student marketplace on Facebook. The group is open to all students to post advertisements and wanted ads for textbooks, bicycles, furniture, housing and more!
• Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) buses will take you to almost any place in Hamilton. All full-time undergraduate and graduate students (except for MBA students) receive an HSR bus pass for the academic year as part of their student fees.
• Hospitality Services offers a wide variety of dining locations on campus with reasonable prices. You can choose from pizza, pasta, salad bars, deli bars, fresh fruit, vegetarian entrees, Chinese food, Mexican food, baked goods, snack food and more. Hospitality Services also offers an off-campus meal plan for students who don’t live in residence. The meal-plan system is flexible and easy to use.
• English-language support, academic advising, and cultural transition services are also available to all international students, as well as many other initiatives as part of success coaching offered by the Student Success Center.

Peer Support and Events

Being part of a global community of McMaster students and alumni means that you have easy access to valuable peer-to-peer support and opportunities to connect. Whether it’s through the International Student Buddy Program, campus clubs and services or international student socials and events, your peers can help you make the most of your time at McMaster as an international student.

 University Health Insurance Plan (UHIP)

It’s important to learn about the health care you have access to as an international or incoming exchange student. In addition to knowing what to do when seeking medical care, learning about your health insurance will help you feel more at ease in your relocation to Canada. If you’re attending McMaster University as an international or incoming exchange student, you have access to insurance through the University Health Insurance Plan (UHIP).

Visit our International Student Hub to learn more about programs and services offered at McMaster University.

Equity-Deserving Student Outreach

In addition to the Access Program, initiatives like MePLUS, MCYU, the Hamilton Community Research Partnership, and the Walls to Bridges program, McMaster aims to prepare, support and recruit talented students who have faced significant socioeconomic barriers, creating more equitable pathways to higher education.

MePLUS

Recognizing that supporting equity and inclusion in science starts well before students take their first steps on a university campus, a team of students in the Faculty of Science has made strides developing an outreach and community project.

McMaster Equitable Pathways to Learning University Sciences (MePLUS) is a free, 10-month program providing science workshops, mentorship, and personal and professional development opportunities to low-income and equity-deserving youth, including Black, Indigenous, and Latinx high school students in Hamilton and surrounding areas.

MCYU

McMaster Children & Youth University (MCYU) delivers science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) based programming for children and youth in the form of FREE, on-campus Lectures by university professors and community outreach workshops facilitated by McMaster University students trained through our MCYU in the City program. Their goal is to empower and academically prepare youth, especially those at a socioeconomic disadvantage, to aspire to university education in subject areas such as science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM). MCYU is working to deepen our relationships with schools and organizations in neighborhoods where high school completion rates are disproportionately low. To help decrease barriers, we bring our MCYU in the City Workshops directly into these neighbourhoods and provide transportation to our on-campus programs.

Research on Low-income Student Admissions

As a partner of the Hamilton Community Research Partnership, McMaster aided research that asked the questions: “Who graduates high school in Hamilton? Who goes to college or university in Ontario? And for those who study in Hamilton, who completes college or university programs?” In total, the project examined pathways for 5,310 students, contributing to a growing body of research into the factors affecting educational outcomes such as high school graduation and postsecondary access. This research is the first of many expected rounds of study that attempt to identify barriers to post-secondary education that McMaster will participate in. The current study assesses high school graduation rates and post-secondary admission rates among students of varying demographics, including those that come from low-income families and/or neighborhoods. Future studies expect to capture even more important socio-economic factors, aiding the partnership’s attempt to reduce these barriers and admit more “left-behind” students to higher education.

Walls to Bridges Campaign

Walls to Bridges is a program by the McMaster Indigenous Research Institute that offers university courses and credits, school supplies, books and photocopying for free to incarcerated people where they learn alongside other McMaster students enrolled in the courses. The aim of the program is to use education to create a conduit from prison to post-secondary reversing the cycle of generational poverty, homelessness and ill health. There are also two other tiers of the prison education program which include post-incarceration support in attending classes, mentoring, tutoring and more and finally a mentorship program which assists formerly incarcerated people who are interested in applying for university as full or part-time students.

Providing confidential relief for food insecurity

“Loonies for Lunches” campaign addresses food insecurity

Linda Duong, Angenie Christy Antony, Kimia Kermanchi and Priyanka Ramchurreetoo have created “Loonies for Lunches,” a campaign to improve McMaster students’ access to food and nutrition. Building off a previous McMaster Hospitality Services campaign, this was a way to make existing services more accessible and known.

Loonies for Lunches offers customers at La Piazza the opportunity to add $1 to their purchase to Lockers of Love, a McMaster Food Collective Centre (FCC) project that enables students to privately access groceries (or funds for groceries) on an as-needed basis.

The McMaster Food Collective Centre (FCC)

The McMaster Food Collective Centre (FCC) is McMaster’s on-campus food bank and food security resource. Run by students, the goal of the FCC is to cultivate stronger food systems in the McMaster and surrounding community and advocate for increased food security. Resources are available for a variety of those in need, including students, alumni, staff, and Hamilton community partners.

The FCC provides confidential relief for food insecurity with many initiatives like Lockers of Love, which enables students to privately access groceries (or funds for groceries) on an as-needed basis.

McMaster’s Community Fridge

The McMaster Community Fridge offers accessible, nutritious and free produce, packaged meals and other food staples to anyone who needs it, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Located on McMaster University’s main campus, the fridge addresses food insecurity by making available donations of fresh, frozen and non-perishable food items, personal hygiene products and pet food products.

 Food for Thought

Food for Thought McMaster provides students the opportunity to discover and experience how to cook healthy, affordable and delicious meals.

These cooking classes are offered free of charge and help students develop confidence and creativity in the kitchen while learning practical ways to incorporate healthy meals and snacks on a budget. Food for Thought is a working group made up of food enthusiasts and volunteers from various McMaster and community groups looking to make a difference.

Transportation

Hamilton Street Railway Bus Pass

McMaster University provides all full-time undergraduate students with a free, unlimited yearly HSR Bus Pass with the Hamilton Street Railway (HSR). The bus pass is administered through PRESTO and provides students with safe and cost-free transportation around McMaster and the Hamilton area.

Legal

McMaster Tax Services

The Mac’s Money Centre Tax Squad offers accessible online services to help students file their taxes in a stress-free and efficient manner. Through this initiative, students can register for tax day clinics, do-it-yourself tax webinars, and also join in on drop-in virtual tax appointments. All services are free and are run through the Hamilton Community Volunteer Income Tax Program (CVITP), which helps Hamilton individuals and families with low income complete their taxes for free.

Ombuds Office

With a focus on fairness, justice and equitable solutions, the Ombuds Office helps visitors better understand their concerns and ways to address them. This may include identifying how university policies apply to their situation and helping generate options to resolve a conflict. With a visitor’s permission, it may also include direct intervention by the Ombuds and recommending a fair resolution.

Student Success

Student Success Centre

The Student Success Centre collaborates with campus and community stakeholders, including Faculty and Program colleagues, to foster student potential by supporting the whole student and their well-being, creating a sense of belonging and offering experiences beyond the classroom that enable student transformation and growth. All these themes work together to support student success; a strong foundation of well-being and belonging allows for transformation and growth to occur.

The McMaster Students Union

The McMaster Students Union, offers more than 20 student-oriented services available on campus, everything from a diversity and equity network, to a Pride Community Centre and a Student Walk Home Attendant Team.

Global skills opportunity

This project will enable emerging leaders within McMaster University’s undergraduate community to build knowledge and skills to support health- and social-system strengthening internationally. We will leverage McMaster Health Forum’s programs to support skills development in policy, political and systems analysis, evidence synthesis, and stakeholder engagement, while building on our experience with student mentorship, leadership development and facilitating international exchange. While open to all undergraduate students, the national program targets groups for whom international experiences have traditionally been less accessible — specifically Indigenous students, students from low-income backgrounds, and those with disabilities. It also aims to diversify the destination countries where Canadian students pursue international learning.

McPherson Institute

Whether you are a student, staff or educator, you can shape the culture of teaching and learning at McMaster through various teaching and learnings grant and award opportunities that the MacPherson Institute supports.

In recognition that student partnership exists in many forms across post-secondary institutions, the MacPherson Institute will host a Students as Partners Community Forum to bring together audiences who have created, plan to create or have participated in a student partnership program. This event aims to enhance and enrich the partnership experience by creating a platform for sharing, exploring and exchanging ideas. Select partnerships are eligible for grants to support student work and participation.

Financial Literacy Month

Financial Literacy Month is held in November every year. McMaster University offers expert financial advice, money management tips, workshops, panel events and more. Topics include budgeting, pay cheques, inflation, credit scores and financial empowerment.

Mac’s Money Centre Financial Coaches

As part of their offerings, Mac’s Money Centre offers students appointments with money coaches, who offer their views to help students with their unique financial circumstances reach their financial goals. These coaches help students make budgets, help clear up misconceptions around budgets, and help students find the advice they need to succeed now and in the future. Please see the “resources and tools” option from the “About Us” drop-down menu for a look at the other ways the Money Centre teaches and supports students with their financial needs.

Local Start-Up Assistance

Developing Future Generations of Diverse Entrepreneurs

What started as an incubator focused on community-based sustainable entrepreneurship has become McMaster University’s newest research centre. Led by DeGroote School of Business professor Benson Honig, The Centre for Research on Community Oriented Entrepreneurship (CRCE) will conduct research that supports marginalized and minority persons in examining problems creatively and leveraging their constraints to foster innovative business solutions.

CRCE will build on research initiated through Honig’s virtual incubator, the Reframery. Born out of COVID-19, the platform initially sought to help minorities, immigrants, women, and persons with disabilities whose careers suffered during the pandemic turn their skills to community-minded entrepreneurship. It then transcended borders as Honig and his team worked with entrepreneurs in places such as Brazil, Kenya, and Ukrainian refugees in Poland.

The Reframery consists of an e-learning platform, a training program, and an online space to cultivate connections. This digital toolkit, informed by peer-reviewed research, highlights creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurial skills.

By expanding its work with marginalized persons worldwide, CRCE’s ultimate goal is to positively impact entrepreneurs as measured by their quality of life, employment, income, community development, sustainability, and personal and community health and well-being.

CRCE will also expand participation from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other community stakeholders in Hamilton, Canada, and worldwide.

McMaster students have the opportunity to get involved in both research and training, as each cohort of entrepreneurs provides unique research opportunities. Currently, DeGroote students are busy researching and writing case studies, connecting with NGOs, enhancing the web portal that CRCE will use for training, and more.

The Forge Business Incubator

The Forge Business Incubator is designed to support startups by providing tailored resources and mentorship to foster growth and innovation. This program offers a supportive environment for startups that have moved beyond the idea stage, either by launching to the market or developing a working prototype (MVP). The Forge runs three cohorts annually in January, May, and September, welcoming startups from various sectors, including software, hardware, healthcare, cleantech, consumer goods, and medical devices.

Funded by McMaster University, The Forge aims to nurture entrepreneurship in the Hamilton and Greater Toronto Area (GTA) without taking equity in the companies it supports. The program offers extensive benefits, including one-on-one mentorship, professional support in areas like IP, legal, and finance, funding opportunities, access to a makerspace, and PR/media exposure.

Startup Survivor

Startup Survivor is a four-month innovation program and pitch competition for McMaster University students and recent alumni, offering $80,000 in total cash prizes. Participants engage in business and technical challenges focused on customer discovery, business modeling, rapid prototyping, go-to-market strategy, and pitching to investors. The program includes educational workshops with experts, weekly one-on-one mentorship, and feedback from external judges. Teams are awarded $1,000 per challenge, with additional funding available for projects focused on smart, sustainable, and autonomous transportation solutions.

The program culminates in a final pitch competition, where the top five finalists deliver a 5-minute pitch to a live audience and a panel of esteemed judges. After deliberations, winners are crowned and awarded the remaining $30,000 from the prize pool.

DRIVE (SPARK Funding Grant)

HHS DRIVE is a platform designed for our people, to help our community of health-care providers, staff and patients. We are dedicated to accelerating the translation of innovative ideas into tangible solutions that improve patient outcomes and advance health care. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse community of health innovators, recognizing that the best ideas come from a variety of perspectives and experiences.

Shortlisted applicants are expected to make their best effort to attend our six-week Health Innovation Bootcamp series, in collaboration with The Clinic at McMaster, scheduled for May – June 2024.

McMaster Innovation Park

McMaster Innovation Park (MIP) is Canada’s premier research and innovation park supporting startups, business, research and offering collaborative space to transform ideas from vision to commercial reality. Our mission is to help companies grow.

MIP acts as a bridge between academia and industry. Supporting researchers with commercial aspirations and enabling students and entrepreneurs to develop their ideas in our incubator and accelerator programs, while also connecting industry with the technical prowess of McMaster University and other academic institutions. MIP is an integral part of Hamilton’s innovation ecosystem where anyone can find a multiplicity of resources to help begin your journey.

McMaster Seed Fund

McMaster University established the McMaster Seed Fund (MSF) in 2021 to support the development of research-intensive and innovative startups with the potential to deliver significant economic and societal benefits to Canada. The fund aims to maximize the impact of McMaster’s research by investing in new business ventures involving one or more members of the McMaster community. These ventures translate groundbreaking research or knowledge generated at the University or its affiliated hospitals into socio-economic benefits.

To date, eight companies have received a total of $2.8 million, with up to $500,000 per startup, in the first three rounds of McMaster Seed Fund investments. Successful companies are awarded tranche investments, where the release of funds is tied to pre-negotiated deliverables.

In the News…

Three innovative McMaster startups awarded seed funding

Three McMaster startup companies – HARvEST, A.I. VALI Inc. and Esphera SynBio – have each received $256,000 in the third round of McMaster Seed Fund investments.

Co-founded by mechanical engineering professor, James Cotton, and research lab manager at the McMaster Institute for Energy Studies, Jeffrey Girard, HARvEST aims to support decarbonization of the restaurant industry with their fuel-less, carbon-free hot water heating system.

Medical device startup A.I. VALI Inc. – cofounded by McMaster professor of medicine and gastroenterologist, David Armstrong – has developed AIDREA™, an AI platform that uses interactive machine learning to document and analyze endoscopy videos in real-time.

AIDREA™’s flexibility will enable clinicians to diagnose diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease, cancer and pre-cancerous conditions more confidently. The platform will also link to other technologies, such as scope-tracking devices developed in collaboration with Qiyin Fang, professor of engineering physics, to improve efficiency and productivity of the clinic workflow, facilitate improved patient access to care and reduce costs.

Programmes for Services Access

Local and Regional

Yaffle is a unique digital platform where campus and communities connect to mobilize knowledge and resources and create a space to collaborate and find solutions to complex challenges in Hamilton and on campus. It focuses on facilitating connections, encouraging collaboration, and tracking partnership outcomes on everything from community engagement to economic prosperity and healthy communities.

Information is shared in Yaffle through Profiles, Projects, Opportunities, and Networks grouped into six theme areas that align with Our Future Hamilton priorities: Environment and Infrastructure, Clean and Green, Community Engagement and Participation, Culture and diversity, Economic Prosperity and Growth, and Healthy and Safe Communities.

The Shelter Health Network was co-founded by Dr. Dale Guenter a family physician, Associate Professor at McMaster University, and co-director at McMaster Family Practice, one of two academic clinics in the McMaster Family Health Team. The Shelter Health Network aims to serve people living in Hamilton who have no family doctor, are homeless or precariously housed, and have complex health and social needs.

McMaster’s Okanagan Office of Health & Well-being provides crisis support and resources for all community members who need urgent support such as housing, emergency food or financial support.

The McMaster Community Poverty Initiative is a group of students, faculty and staff dedicated to research, advocacy and education and action related to poverty reduction. Together with our partners in the Hamilton community, we strive to use knowledge for social change.

The McMaster United Way Campaign: Local Love in a Global Crisis ensures an essential network of programs and services to achieve lasting, positive change through community engagement. It allows McMaster staff, faculty, and students to strengthen their relationship with the surrounding community.

The TMG Ways of Caring offers volunteer opportunities to the McMaster TMG community. This initiative supports not-for-profit agencies in the broader community in order to deepen the understanding of the McMaster community towards the complex issues facing Hamilton.

It also aims to assist the efforts of community agencies to improve the quality and conditions of their clients’ lives. It strengthens the service-oriented and collaborative culture amongst TMG employees and helps identify how this knowledge can inform our work as a university.

MacChangers offer experiential learning opportunities to students and propose collaborative solutions to the most complex and pressing problems confronting society in the 21st century as identified in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Think Global) and Our Future Hamilton (Act Local) long-term community vision.

Throughout the school year, MacChangers teams develop their professional and transferable skills through workshops on a variety of topics, such as human-centered design, financial viability of solutions, prototyping, communication, teamwork, leadership and problem-solving. The program welcomes students from all faculties to share their expertise and has no cost to enroll.

The Social Innovation Certificate is designed for undergraduate students to develop an academic focus in the development and implementation of solutions for effective, long-term social impact. The new program helps students develop the skills they need to design and implement real-world solutions to social issues.

ACCESS Tech helps to provide Hamiltonians in need by donating used technology like computers, laptops, and mobile devices. Students, faculty members and staff can drop off any used technology for donation on McMaster campus.

National

The McMaster Optimal Aging Portal is a source for healthy aging information that people can trust. The portal offers evidence-based research and programs on everything from mobility and transportation to supportive housing and cognitive health for older adults.

Good Shepherd Women’s Services (GSWS) strives to provide safe, welcoming, and accommodating emergency shelter services to anyone who comes to their door. However, the organization’s leadership is aware of persistent safety and accessibility barriers that transgender and non-binary clients experience in the shelter system. GSWS commissioned the McMaster Research Shop to research the experiences of transgender and non-binary clients in the shelter system, as well as ways that shelter services can be adapted to better suit their needs

Global

Many of McMaster’s Research Centres and Institutes address complex, societal challenges that cross traditional boundaries and disciplines. Our cutting-edge research infrastructure encourages collaboration and provides evidence-based support for policies that address poverty, sustainability and prosperity for all.

The Volunteer and Work Abroad program gives students support to build intercultural skills and gain international experience and support communities working to alleviate poverty. The program has a wide range of opportunities outside Canada that include both working or volunteering abroad.