Queen’s Admissions Guide: Requirements and Deadlines for 2027 Entry

A Queen’s application should be built around the program you actually want to study. Commerce, Health Sciences and Nursing have required supplements and earlier application dates than other first-year programs. Awards also have a separate schedule. This guide helps you keep those steps distinct for 2027 entry.

Choose your program before building the checklist

Read the curriculum and admission requirements for the program and your school system. Record required courses, language requirements, documents and any supplement. Requirements for an Ontario applicant should not be copied to a student in a different curriculum without checking the equivalents.

Compare programs on more than a name or ranking: required courses, later specialization choices, experiential opportunities, costs and the kind of work you want to explore. A degree does not guarantee a particular job or admission to a later professional program.

Queen’s application and award dates

The official dates page is the source for the table below. The initial application, required supplement and supporting documents are separate submissions.

The Major Admission Award application requires access to the student system. Queen’s advises applying early enough to receive that access; do not wait until December 8 to begin the university application. The page contains differing November recommendations, so plan the access step early and confirm the instructions rather than treating a recommended date as an award deadline.

Which programs require a supplement?

Commerce, Health Sciences and Nursing require a supplementary application. Completing the initial application is not the same as completing the supplement. Read the invitation and portal checklist, note the February 15 deadline and confirm receipt after submitting.

Queen’s labels the rubric currently displayed on its supplementary-application rubric page as belonging to the 2026 intake and says updated information for the 2027 intake will be posted by November 1, 2026. Until then, treat the older rubric as historical. Check the format, timing and criteria for your own application before an assessed submission.

Older Personal Statement of Experience examples or scholarship essays should not be treated as current Commerce, Health Sciences or Nursing questions. Scholarship applications can ask for different information and have their own rules.

Prepare your experiences in your own words

Begin with specific experiences rather than a list of impressive adjectives. Useful notes can come from paid work, family responsibilities, clubs, sport, service or an independent project. You do not need to invent a formal leadership title to explain a responsibility you actually held.

1. Identify the situation. What needed to happen, and who was involved?
2. Explain your contribution. What did you decide or do? What belonged to someone else?
3. Describe the result accurately. Use numbers only when you know what they measure.
4. Reflect. What did you learn, and what would you do differently?

Use those notes to prepare for communication, not to predetermine an answer to an unseen question. Follow the assessed application’s rules on outside help, notes and technology. If a component is timed, use the official practice instructions and test your equipment.

Use admission statistics carefully

Dividing enrolled students by applications does not establish an acceptance rate. Enrolment counts students who took a place; offers count admission decisions, including offers that were declined. A useful comparison needs matching definitions, a reporting year and the relevant program or applicant group.

For your own planning, separate minimum prerequisites from published competitive guidance and historical entering averages. None is a personal guarantee. Make sure each program on your shortlist is one you would realistically consider attending.

Build the financial plan before offers arrive

Check current Queen’s fees for your program and residency status. Add residence or rent, food, transport, books and a contingency. Keep scholarships already awarded separate from applications in progress; a possible award is not confirmed money.

When an offer arrives, read its conditions, response date and any deposit or residence requirements. Save the original offer and use the dates in your own instructions. Avoid carrying forward dates from an older year’s admissions guide.

Your next working session

Make a one-page checklist containing the program, prerequisites, application date, supplement date, document date, award steps and portal status. Complete the earliest dependency first: for an award, that may be obtaining portal access; for a required supplement, it may be reading the current format before practicing.

Commerce applicants can continue with our Queen’s Commerce guide for a focused preparation plan.

Frequently asked questions

When do I apply to Queen’s Commerce, Health Sciences or Nursing?

For 2027 entry, applications for these programs are due February 1, 2027 and their required supplements are due February 15, 2027.

Is the Queen’s 2027 rubric available?

As checked October 10, 2026, Queen’s labels its displayed rubric as 2026 and says updated 2027 information will be posted by November 1, 2026.

Does enrolment divided by applications equal an acceptance rate?

No. Enrolment and offers of admission are different measures. An acceptance-rate calculation needs matching applicant and offer data.

Sources and next steps

Sources checked October 10, 2026. Use the official instructions for your program, applicant category and entry year when you apply.

• Queen’s dates and deadlines
• Queen’s supplementary rubric and 2027 update notice