Mailing Address:
1280 Main Street West,
Hamilton, Ontario
L8S 4L8
By Phone:
(905) 525-9140

www.workingatmcmaster.ca

A Culture of Innovation

McMaster is a full-service university. With well-established strengths in health care, engineering, business,social sciences, science, and humanities research and education, the University offers both students and professors exciting and unique opportunities for research, education, and collaboration.

With a long-standing reputation as Canada's "most innovative" university, McMaster has pioneered a number of programs that have changed how professors teach and students learn. Problem-based-learning (PBL), pioneered at McMaster, has now spread across North America as a preferred method of instructing undergraduate students.

Through its continued dedication to innovative education and ground-breaking research, the University has earned its reputation as one of the leading post-secondary institutions in Canada. McMaster continues in its commitment to be Canada's most student-centred research university.

Art museum, bookstore, campus health services, career planning and employment centre, centre for student development (personal and academic counselling, disability-related support services, chaplaincy centre, ESL classes, skill development workshops), daycare centre, human rights and equity office, ombuds office, student newspaper, student radio station, student walk home service, writing clinic.

First-year student programs

One-day sessions by Centre for Student Development and the Career Planning and Employment Centre to help students prepare for university; open house for students and parents.

Housing

On-campus: McMaster can accommodate approximately 3,366 students in 11 residence buildings: female-only, co-ed, and apartment or suite style co-ed residence. Facilities include double, triple, quad, and single rooms. Approximately 80 percent of spaces are reserved for first-year students in the residences. All students with an 80 percent admissions average are guaranteed a space in residence provided they meet the residence application and deposit deadline. Residence fees: (annual cost, room only) bunk and loft triple, $3,150; double/triple, $3,750; quad, $3,625; single, $4,000; Bates apartment room, $4,405; Mary E. Keyes suite room, $4,585. Meal plans are mandatory and range in cost from $1,600 - $3,075.

Off-campus: There is ample housing available within easy walking or busing distance. Bus pass for academic terms included in student fees. Off-campus housing prices: rooms, $300 - $400/month; shared apartments, $350 - $400/month; shared house, $350 - $400/month; bachelor apt, $400 - $500/month; one-bedroom, $450 - $600/month; two-bedroom, $600 - $800/month; houses (four-bedroom+), $1,400+/month.

Information technology

Students have access to over 1,000 computers on campus. Every student can register for an e-mail account free of charge with full Internet access. Students living off-campus can access the university network through a modem pool service. Rates are $0.50/hour for 56k access. Student residences are wired for computer network connections.

Mr. Ni Jadon Senior
Project Manager/International liaison officer

Telephone: (905) 525-9140 ext. 24616
Fax: (905) 546-5212

E-mail: jadon@mcmaster.ca