Admission to a Doctoral program requires a Masters degree or equivalent Additional entrance standards such as GPA requirements are set by individual Doctoral programs
PhD Health Sciences program currently requires a 3.67 or A GPA cumulative in the graduate degree used to determine admissibility to the doctoral program
Students are normally expected to hold a Master's degree from an accredited post-secondary institution. Normally, applicants must hold a cumulative GPA of 3.67 A- from the Baccalaureate and Master's degree, to be calculated over the last 30 gradable credit hours.

Acceptable evidence of English language proficiency may be any one of the following
TOEFL Test of English as a Foreign Language score of 90 or higher in the internet-based test with not less than 20 in any of the reading listening writing or speaking components or equivalent other TOEFL score UNBCs institutional TOEFL code is 0320.
IELTS International English Language Testing System academic score of at least 6.5 overall with not less than 6.0 in any of the four modules.
CAEL Canadian Academic English Language Assessment or the CAEL CE overall 70 with no subtest below 60.
MELAB Michigan English Language Assessment Battery 85 final score with 3 in the speaking test.

A final grade of 3.00 B or better in both the UNBC English Language Studies 50 and English Language Studies 170 obtained concurrently and prior to application for graduate admission.
A final grade of 3.00 B or better in an articulated BCCAT EAP 4 program prior to application for graduate admission.