Campus Life:

McMaster Athletics and Recreation offers a wide variety of opportunities to maintain a regular exercise routine, including varsity athletics, team intramurals, drop-in activities, and outdoor recreation. The facilities include the Ivor Wynne Centre, the David Braley Athletic Centre and the Ron Joyce Stadium, which combine to house seven gymnasiums, three studios, three natural grass fields, two artificial soft-surface fields, a 50m pool, a 200m indoor track, squash courts, an indoor climbing wall, a high ropes course and one of the largest university fitness centres in Canada. McMaster is home to three excellent campus libraries featuring all of the academic resources you need for your studies, which are Mills Memorial Library, Innis Library, and the H.G. Thode Library of Science & Engineering. McMaster provides healthy food options on the campus itself, with options to accommodate vegan, vegetarian, halal and gluten-free dietary restrictions. We have different cafes and restaurants such as Starbucks, Tim Hortons, CAFE ONE, Pizza pizza, Booster juice, Cento, La Piazza, Phoenix Bar & Grill and so many others. The campus is fully facilitated with free high speed internet Wi-Fi.

Hostel:

The average cost of living outside the campus near the university area's varies from $500 to $600 for a personal room with all utilities included. There are some cheap options available as well, or students may share with other people to cut down on the rent. Sharing a room can cost anywhere between $350 and $450 based on the location where you are living.

Campus Life:

Campus life is very happening with all necessary facilities. Infrastructure is high tech and modular with great accessibility, efficient amenities and good library services.

Hostel:

Accommodating rooms is very easy. Plenty of services are available from the International Students Centre, Mac website and Facebook housing communities.

Campus Life:

Not much - since it was Covid time. But it is a big University and has every necessary thing.

Hostel:

1. I stayed at a student housing near my University (off-campus). Though, it is better to check well ahead before to reach to Canada.

Hostel:

I stayed outside the campus.

Conveniently located in Steel capital of Canada, a lot of opportunities for Mechanical and Manufacturing domains.

Hostel:

No.

Research topics, fundings, and ranking.

Hostel:

I lived off campus in student housing. The cheapest rent I have seen is $350. I pay $525 for a single room in a house with 7 other people (sounds like a lot, but it really isn't that bad). I prefer not to live on campus as campus-work-school life all in one geographical location can get monotonous- which is to say, I like "walking" home.

I previously completed my bachelors degree at McMaster University in Honours Life Sciences with a minor in Biochemistry (2018). The admissions process consisted of marks from the final year of undergraduate studies, an academic CV, a personal statement, and 2 letters of reference from academic/research supervisors, and application fee was $100. I only applied to one Master's program. My final year GPA was 3.96 on 4.00 scale.

Hostel:

I have taken an off-campus student room for $400 a month. I contacted so many landlords from back home before coming here. I shortlisted 2-3 houses. I landed in Canada and my supervisor was nice that he allowed me to stay in his house for a week. So, I had a chance to see the houses and select for one best one. The meal was around $150 per month and $50 for the phone bill. So overall $600 is an ideal expense for a student.

Mcmaster which is one of the top 100 universities in the world had a similar program for what I was looking for M.Sc. Biology thesis-based. The admission process was easy because of the administration staff of my department. They were helpful in guiding me on how to contact the supervisors. I emailed supervisors if they were ready to accept any new graduate students and luckily I received a response from a supervisor asking to send my transcripts and resume. I sent all the documents and upon the interview, he was ready to accept me as a student in his lab. Later on, I paid the application fee and applied online to the university. My scores were high in the bachelor of science (A+).

I enjoy the size of the campus which is relative to a medium sized campus. It is easily navigatable during the first week of school. The furthest classes were only an 8-minute walk which was absolutely perfect because you could go back to back classes with no problem. I also opted for this University because I believed they had a great Commerce program and it would help me reach my career goal of doing something in the Finance area.

It had an internship program and was a good distance from my house. I loved the look and feel of the campus. It was a big campus but still felt cozy because of the way the buildings looked. I read good things about the school on the internet and was highly ranked in the province and country.

It was the closest to my top choice that I was accepted to, behind Waterloo and U of T. It was third out of my seven choices because it had a co-op engineering program, which I found to be very important, and that it was rising in the school rankings nationwide.