The Master of Project Management (MPM) provides learners from a variety of academic disciplines and professions with graduate-level training in the transferable field of project management. The three-semester program delivers enriching, professionally relevant, and flexible academic experiences through a combination of intensive seven-week online courses and weekly face-to-face courses. Students are trained to function effectively in diverse industry careers that utilize project work (e.g., information technology, engineering, life sciences, health care, arts, media, transportation, and supply chains) through coursework that combines the academic rigor of evidence-based management with real world applications that supports project related managerial decision making. The MPM curriculum is aligned with the learning outcomes established by the Project Management Institute and thus supports graduates seeking PMP certification. The program includes coursework in supply chain management, project governance and business analytics, and culminates in a case study-based capstone course.

The Graduate Diploma in Project Management provides learners from a variety of academic disciplines and professions with graduate-level training in the transferable field of project management. The one-semester program delivers enriching, professionally relevant, and flexible academic experiences through a combination of intensive seven-week online courses and weekly face-to-face courses. Students are trained to function effectively in diverse industry careers that utilize project work (e.g., information technology, engineering, life sciences, health care, arts, media, transportation, and supply chains) through coursework that combines the academic rigor of evidence-based management with real world applications that supports project related managerial decision making.

The PhD in Computer Science program prepares candidates for careers in computer science teaching, research, or consulting. The program is designed to provide a deep knowledge of computer science and training in advanced research. Doctoral research carries the expectation of making an original contribution to the body of existing knowledge or technology. It is also expected that the responsibility of problem definition and solution is that of the student. Therefore, graduates are expected to have acquired autonomy in defining and analyzing problems, conducting research, and preparing scholarly publications. These objectives are achieved through a combination of course work, independent research, public seminars, a qualifying examination, and the production and defense of a research dissertation.

The Master of Dairy Technology Management (MDTM) is a three-semester, online coursework program that aims to prepare highly qualified personnel who will lead the Ontario, Canadian, and international dairy industries into the future. The MDTM brings together global expertise for instruction and training on dairy science, dairy plant operations, dairy products, agri-food economics, food safety and quality management, operations management, and supply and value chain management. The program blends three major overarching competencies needed to advance industry professionals, namely: dairy science and technology; management of operations, food safety systems and quality assurance; and marketing and business management. Online courses are complemented by regular touchpoints with industry advisors, and the program culminates in completion of an industry-relevant project.

The Master of Data Science (MDS) is a three-semester coursework program that trains individuals to become computationally skilled and ethically minded data analysts. Students become well versed in key technologies in data science, including data wrangling, data mining, data integrity, visualization, machine learning, predictive modelling, and spatial-temporal methods. Through hands-on training, students analyze big data independently and collaboratively such that graduates are primed to help organizations translate data into knowledge and actionable insights. The program features in-class experiential learning opportunities, including how to address and describe complex problems relevant to industry partners, as well as how to explore ethical considerations of privacy, data security, objective analysis and visualization. Students may choose to complete the program through either two capstone courses, or an independent project.

The Master of Conservation Leadership (MCL) program seeks to transform today’s conservation professional into tomorrow’s conservation leader. Aimed at early- to mid-career working professionals, the program is comprised of three week-long residency components, online interactive learning modules, an Individual Development Plan (IDP), and a final learning portfolio that addresses a contemporary need in the sector. The program is designed to be completed in 24 months of full-time study. With an emphasis on innovative conservation practice, including Indigenous-led conservation governance and conservation on private and working lands, the MCL will cultivate competencies in leadership such as strategic planning, conflict resolution, team building, evidence-based decision-making, partnership development, and communication designed expressly for the working conservation professional.

The Master of Cybersecurity and Threat Intelligence (MCTI) is a professionally-oriented, 12-month master’s program focused on training individuals to become technically skilled and ethically-minded cybersecurity professionals. Students develop mastery in security analysis and design, security architecture, malware analysis, intrusion detection, threat intelligence, digital forensics, and penetration testing. Hands-on experiential learning in the cybersecurity teaching lab, the Security Operations Centre, will enable students to work with real and simulated security attacks independently and collaboratively. The program culminates in an independent project wherein students partner with an industry or academic partner to produce an evidence-based solution to an emerging challenge to cybersecurity. Graduates will be primed to help organizations create security frameworks, protect sensitive data from threats, and analyse violations to help prevent future breaches.

The PhD in Social Practice and Transformational Change is designed to enable interdisciplinary research at the doctoral level across five disciplinary-focused departments in the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences (CSAHS). Its focus on Social Practice will enable research that straddles theory and practice, and advances scholarly knowledge and the interests of community partners, the latter of which has become a nationally and internationally recognized brand of the University of Guelph. Notable areas of strength among the core faculty include community engaged scholarship, disability studies, feminist and gender studies, Indigenous studies, global studies, and teaching and learning.

The MA and PhD programs in Critical Studies in Improvisation are an initiative of the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI) within the School of English and Theatre Studies (SETS) at the University of Guelph. Having effectively established the field of Critical Studies in Improvisation in Canada, IICSI is poised to create the first-ever graduate programming in the field. The interdisciplinary curriculum emphasizes practice-based learning and research, wherein students learn about and from improvised practices through direct participation (e.g., music, movement, visual arts, theatre, etc.). With foundations in critical inquiry, multidisciplinary improvisatory practices, performative agency, and community engagement, the program will enable students to develop broadly applicable skills in research and project development, management and implementation, leadership, and collaboration across multi-site experiential learning opportunities.

The Graduate Diploma in Accounting is a four-month program that gives students advanced standing in the CPA Professional Education Program (PEP). By combining the conceptual and quantitative elements of accounting while promoting the integration of theory and practice, the diploma provides graduates with a systemic understanding of knowledge of financial accounting and managerial accounting. Upon successful completion of these modules, you will be eligible to write the CFE. Beyond this, students develop the technical, analytical, evaluative, leadership, and communication skills needed for a successful career in accounting and related management areas.

The Master of Biotechnology (MBiot) is a one-year, interdisciplinary master’s program through which students both deepen their scientific training and develop business skills that prepare them for a fulfilling career in the diverse, entrepreneurial, and fast-changing field of biotechnology. Students are trained as highly competent, independent, and creative researchers/managers who are familiar with and able to integrate both the science and business environments. Furthermore, the program encourages the development of entrepreneurial activities in this area, which is crucial for the formation of new private sector companies. Courses promote effective communication of knowledge of the scientific discipline, as well as place it in a business context, and the program culminates in an independent research project wherein students interact with faculty, the wider research community, and private sector companies.

The MA in Management provides an enriching, professionally-relevant, and flexible academic experience by including students as part of a collaborative research culture that emphasises evidence based management. Students will be equipped with the necessary skills to support managerial decision making with evidence-based reasoning. The program will: provide students with an opportunity to continue in higher education as well as work on substantive research projects; enhance the research training essential for advanced study and for supporting managerial decision making; prepare students for careers in management that require evidence based decision making; foster collaboration between academia and industry and within academia, across the spectrum of potential studies in management analysis. The program has two declared fields, Management Research and Accounting.

The Graduate Diploma (Type 1) in Accounting is awarded to students who were registered in the Accounting field of the MA Management program  and who decided not to complete the required major research paper.  The Program provides an enriching, professionally-relevant, and flexible academic experience by including students as part of a collaborative culture that emphasises evidence based management.  Students will be equipped with the necessary skills to support managerial decision making with evidence-based reasoning. The program will: provide students with an opportunity to continue in higher education as well as work on substantive research projects; enhance the research training essential for advanced study and for supporting managerial decision making; prepare students for careers in management that require evidence based decision making; foster collaboration between academia and industry and within academia, across the spectrum of potential studies in management analysis.

The Graduate Diploma (Type 1) in Management is awarded to students who were registered in the Management Research field of the MA Management program  and who decided not to complete the required major research paper.  The Program provides an enriching, professionally-relevant, and flexible academic experience by including students as part of a collaborative culture that emphasises evidence based management.  Students will be equipped with the necessary skills to support managerial decision making with evidence-based reasoning. The program will: provide students with an opportunity to continue in higher education as well as work on substantive research projects; enhance the research training essential for advanced study and for supporting managerial decision making; prepare students for careers in management that require evidence based decision making; foster collaboration between academia and industry and within academia, across the spectrum of potential studies in management analysis.

The PhD program in Bioinformatics will be the only one of its kind offered in Ontario. This interdisciplinary program involves graduate faculty members from four different colleges (College of Biological Science, College of Physical and Engineering Sciences, the Ontario Agricultural College and the Ontario Veterinary College) to provide graduates with advanced education, knowledge, and technical expertise in the broad area of bioinformatics, and more specifically in the emerging fields of statistics, computational biology and genomics and its allied fields: transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics together with strong established disciplines of computational statistics, genetics and computer science. This program will thus help address the acute shortage of highly qualified researchers who have been trained to develop computational and statistical tools for the analysis of the increasingly diverse types of emerging omics data.

The two-year, thesis-based master’s degree is a new research program that will provide a range of adaptable and transferable skills, and equip students with a broad knowledge of the theory and practice of tourism and hospitality research, preparing them for research and/or administrative careers in the public and private sectors. It also represents a potential stepping-stone to the PhD in Management. Each course in the program will involve a research component and be evaluated in part through an assignment that fosters research and scholarship. These assignments will vary in emphasis but, collectively, will encompass all facets of tourism research, including theoretical concept assessment, conceptual model development, methodology selection, research design, data analysis, and presentation of results.

This is a one-year, direct-entry graduate diploma program that meets the needs of students who want to extend their knowledge of tourism research beyond the level of their undergraduate degree, but do not want to undertake a thesis-based degree. The objective of the program is to develop a solid academic background and underpinning in the field of tourism, its sustainability as an industry and that of its destinations.

A Type 1 Graduate Diploma in Tourism Studies may be awarded to a master’s candidate who completes a minimum of 2.5 credits of taught courses in the MSc program in Tourism and Hospitality, but withdraws from the program without completing the full program requirements.

The proposed Mechatronics Engineering program at the University of Guelph integrates mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering/science to train students in designing intelligent, computer-controlled, electro-mechanical systems. With both a four-year regular stream and a five-year co-op stream, students would earn a Bachelor of Engineering, benefiting from an interdisciplinary approach integrated with other engineering programs. A distinctive feature of the program is its strong focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), with students encouraged to incorporate these elements into their capstone projects. Graduates will be equipped to work in various industries, including agriculture, automation, automotive, aerospace, biomedical, defense, machine vision, manufacturing, power/energy, and robotics, addressing the increasing demand for professionals with multidisciplinary expertise to solve complex technological challenges. The curriculum offers flexibility through optional Areas of Emphasis in Robotics-Control-AI or Manufacturing-Automation, allowing students to tailor their education to their career goals.

The Bachelor of Creative Arts, Health and Wellness is a four-year Honours program designed to prepare a generation of highly- skilled creative arts graduates, equipping them with the skills to engage with the complex fields of health and well-being as they intersect with artistic practices, self- expression, and creative autonomy. In the interest of also training students in inclusive, anti-colonial, and anti-racist practices, the program emphasizes anti-oppressive approaches found within the fields of creative and expressive arts activism, health, wellness, and therapy. Students in the program combine the rigorous training of an artistic discipline—by selecting a major in Studio Art, Theatre Studies, or Music—with studies in psychology and a suite of core courses in health and wellness where these areas connect to and are enriched by the creative arts.

The Bachelor of One Health offers students the opportunity to explore animal, environmental, and human health from both the scientific and socio-cultural perspective. One Health is an approach to research and problem-solving that brings together different knowledge systems and perspectives to find solutions that ensure people, animals, and our environment stay healthy. One Health is both an approach and an outcome. It embodies an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to understanding, managing, and mitigating health challenges at a local and global scale. While founded on three pillars – human health, animals and plant health, and environmental health – the premise of the program is that health in any one pillar cannot be viewed in isolation. Students explore the product of synergistic and antagonistic interactions of a socio-cultural and biological nature among the pillars. Students in the Bachelor or One Health are required to complete one of four Areas of Emphasis. Students may select a co-op option or regular program and experiential learning is embedded throughout as an integral part of the program.

The Creative Writing major prepares students to become socially aware professional writers and creative professionals. Towards that end, the creative writing program provides students with the opportunity to engage with issues of environmental awareness and social justice through creative practice. Students also gain a depth and breadth of understanding of literature, enabling them to analyze and evaluate how their creative practice engages, revises, or contests literary traditions, genres, and forms. The purpose of combining literary studies and creative practice is to produce a unique form of aesthetic maturity. In their course of study, majors explore three writing genres, gain expertise in two, and create a polished creative portfolio in one while minors gain skill in two writing genres. By the end of the program, students will be able to create original, compelling creative work by achieving breadth and understanding of the techniques of creative craft and form across two genres.

The major in Sexualities, Genders, and Social Change considers the breadth and depth of scholarly inquiry relating to human identity, embodiment, and self-expression. This program explores theories drawn from the fields of feminism, postcolonial and decolonial studies, transnationalism, LGBTQ+, queer and sexuality studies, critical race, queer of colour, and critical whiteness studies, indigenous studies, masculinities, and (dis)abilities among many others. Students engage with subject matter and methods from across the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Business, gaining the skills and knowledges necessary to serve as twenty-first century leaders in driving meaningful social change. Experiential learning opportunities are embedded throughout the program and students participate in a capstone community-engaged project.

The Indigenous Environmental Science and Practice (BIESP) program examines environmental science through a lens of Indigenous knowledge systems, methodologies, priorities, and values. The degree seeks to actualize reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples of Canada and promote sustainable relationships with the environment. Indigenous and non-Indigenous graduates of the program will be equipped to support the environmental science needs and goals of Indigenous communities and partners. This degree explicitly recognizes the inherent validity and value of Indigenous ways of knowing and being and seeks to effectively and consensually engage and apply Indigenous methodologies, values and knowledge to the challenge of sustainable and ethical environmental science and practice. The IESP program will enable students to develop a foundational knowledge of theoretical and applied aspects of environmental science, technology, management, land-use and policy development practices grounded in Indigenous pedagogy.

The Culture and Technology Studies major offers students a flexible program of study with which to explore the role of culture and creativity in an increasingly technological world, using technologies themselves as part of the process. It emerges from the insight that technology is inextricably linked to human experience, culture, and society. Students in Culture and Technology Studies will tackle the complex relationships among power, digital knowledge, digital cultures, the representation of data, and the ethical questions surrounding the development, deployment, and accessibility of technological objects and processes. Culture and Technology Studies builds an understanding of the digital mediation of cultural processes and the role humans play in technological work. Students learn digital methods for intervening in the contemporary world as versatile creators, curators, communicators, and citizens. Experiential learning opportunities, including working with community partners, are embedded as an integral part of the program. Students may select one of three optional Areas of Emphasis.

The Bachelor of Arts in Justice and Legal Studies provides students with a clear understanding of law and judicial processes in Canada and a global context. The program allows students to critically evaluate, using various and interdisciplinary conceptions of justice, the relationship between legal institutions, society, politics, and governance. The core of the Justice and Legal Studies Major draws on work in law and politics, socio-legal studies, political science and other disciplinary traditions to provide students with a practical understanding of the operation of law and legal institutions in both a local and global context. It also encourages students to evaluate how law and legal institutions impact, shape, and are shaped by actors and power dynamics in government and society. Students select an Area of Emphasis to study law, justice and legal institutions in various interdisciplinary contexts. Students may select a co-op option or regular program.

The Sport and Event Management major provides students with advanced knowledge, from the business value of sport and events to their contribution to community and society, and seeks to inspire and engage students to become innovative leaders in this dynamic sector of our economy. Building on a strong foundation of commerce courses in marketing, accounting, economics, human resource management and strategy, students in Sport and Event Management will develop depth of knowledge in key aspects of sport, including sponsorship, media, event hosting, stakeholder engagement and organizational leadership.  Students may select a co-op option or regular program and experiential learning is embedded throughout as an integral part of the program, balancing theory with practice.   On completion of the program, students have the analytical and communication skills and experience required for a career with government organizations, commercial clubs, professional teams or sport businesses, in Canada and internationally. Graduates are prepared for positions in sport promotion and marketing, facility and event management, sport media and communication, and sport policy development.

The Food Industry Management major is a joint venture by two departments (Food Science and Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics) in the Ontario Agricultural College, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the program, which encompasses the science of food safety, quality control, processing and innovation and the management of food businesses, including operations and marketing. In order to address current and future provincial and global needs of the agricultural food industry for technically and scientifically-informed, highly competent managers, the program provides students with a solid foundation in basic science, applied food science, business and management practice, as well as supply chain and operations management. The program offers a mix of theoretical, experiential and applied study and both co-op and non-co-op format and affords students the opportunity to tailor courses to their career goals and interests.

The brain remains the most poorly understood organ in the human body and the source of many challenging disorders and diseases affecting health.  The BSc Honours in Neuroscience provides a foundation in the natural sciences and an opportunity to develop advanced knowledge of nervous system structure and function, and the skills required for independent inquiry within neuroscience. The specialization is unique in its emphasis on integrative/interdisciplinary problem solving. Through the use of electives, students may structure a program that emphasizes molecular and biomedical neuroscience, behavioural and cognitive neuroscience, or comparative neuroscience.

The major prepares students for  graduate research and professional programs in health science (medical, physiotherapy, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, nursing), post-graduate work in neuroscience, and provides a strong foundation for students wishing to pursue careers in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, public health, teaching, and scientific publishing & journalism.