Graduate Resources

• Admission requirements: Graduate admission process is administered by the UBC Graduate + Postdoctoral Studies (G+PS). Please visit their website to confirm detailed admission requirements and eligibility to apply.
• Program Overview: One-page poster, Programs slide deck
• MTRL PhD Journey: Detailed information about doing a PhD at UBC MTRL

• Academic Advising: Contact our admissions team for personalized guidance. Faculty graduate advisors are available to help on any aspect of graduate studies within the department – both professional and personal. To seek support from an advisor please send an email to graduate@mtrl.ubc.ca. Please do not email advisors at their personal email addresses.
  • Graduate Advisors: Dr. Ben Britton, Dr. Matthias Militzer
  • Program Assistants: Lydia Lyu, Becky Silverman
• Graduate School Fair: Each year, the Department participates in the Canadian Graduate Engineering Consortium, usually take place in the Fall.

• Financial Planning: More information about budgeting and financial planning tips for living in Vancouver, including a cost of living estimator can be found on the G+PS website.
• UBC Housing Support: G+PS Housing Portal, UBC Graduate Student Housing, GSS Housing Aids

• G+PS important dates and deadlines: Dates and deadlines about graduation, thesis submission, etc.
• Exam schedules: Official exam schedules published on the UBC academic calendar.

Faculty should request the scheduling of the following on behalf of their students using the MTRL Scheduling Requests survey. 

• Supervisory Committee Meetings
• Master’s Final Oral Exam
• PhD Comprehensive Exam
• PhD Proposal
• PhD Internal Exam

Faculty or students should submit graduate forms to Student Services using the Graduate Forms Submission survey. Forms you can find and submit through this survey are: 

• Request for Extension
• Request for Leave of Absence
• Changes to Supervisory Committee
• PhD Candidacy
• Voluntary Withdrawal