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COSC Information Guide
Advanced Standing Process |
The Procedure
- The undergraduate department does not handle admission to York University.
Please contact the Admission Office, 150 Atkinson College, (416) 736-5000.
Their www page is the following.
http://www.yorku.ca/admissio/undergrad.asp
You will be required to submit to the Office of Admissions all of your official
transcripts and detailed course descriptions/syllabi for studies completed outside of
Canada and the United States before an admission decision can be made.
If you are offered admission to the University, your first step is to contact the
appropriate Faculty Advising Office to make an advising and enrolment appointment.
The assessment of your eligibility for advanced standing will begin only after you
have made this appointment.
A statement of advanced standing will be mailed to you and will also be provided to
your advising office in time for your scheduled appointment.
- At your faculty advising appointment you will get general advice about faculty
requirements you need to meet considering the advanced standing received from the
admissions office. They prepare a file for you which the COSC undergraduate office
can use in advising you.
- Once you have had an appointment with the faculty advising office,
you may make an appointment to see
the Computer Science undergraduate coordinator about advice as to which courses you should
take. At that meeting you need to take the York University letter saying how many credits
you have been granted and a set of forms indicating the courses for which you have
been granted advanced standing.
- You can find out more about our undergraduate programmes and how to contact the
undergraduate office from the following www page.
http://www.yorku.ca/undergrad
- We do not have the resources to evaluate job experience and industrial courses for
advanced standing credit. We can only look at academic backgrounds.
How long will it take to get a second degree
That depends upon which COSC courses you get transfer credit (have done equivalent work at
another university). Due to the number of students wanting computer science courses and the strict
prerequisite structure we restrict without exception the number of courses student may take
in any one term.
1000-level COSC courses in first year -- maximum 1 per term, 2 per year
2000-level COSC courses in second year -- maximum 2 per term, 4 per year
3000-level COSC courses in third year -- maximum 3 per term (summer 2), 6 per year
4000-level COSC courses in fourth year -- maximum 3 per term (summer 2), 6 per year
If you have no computer science courses completed, it will take you 3 years to get an ordinary
degree and 4 years to get an honours degree. This is independent of how many other courses
you have done in other disciplines.
If you have many transfer credits -- advanced standing for many courses -- you will be
taking only 1, 2 or 3 compuer science courses per term (depending upon year level).
During this period
you will be a part time student, unless you take additional courses outside of computer
science.
Evening courses
Not all courses in computer science evening sections; especially
at the 3000- and 4000-level have.
To complete a degree programme, it will be necessary to take some courses during day.