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You will apply for placement in the Winter term of the calendar year prior to when you anticipate transferring to Dalhousie University. For example, If you will start Year 3 at Dalhousie in Fall 2026 term, you would apply for placement in the Winter 2025 term. If you will start Year 3 at Dalhousie in Fall 2027 term, you would apply for placement in the Winter 2026 term. The last day in the Winter term to apply for a placement is April 30.

You can defer your placement by participating in the next placement cycle. You can defer your placement once (eg. from Fall 2026 to Fall 2027).

You will be ineligible for admission and will need to apply to defer your placement to the subsequent year. You can defer your placement once (eg. from Fall 2026 to Fall 2027).

It is possible to transfer to Dalhousie University prior to Year 3. You must have a cumulative GPA of 2.50 and satisfy all admissions requirements. In this case your courses will be assessed on a course by course basis for transfer. For a course to be eligible for transfer you must have a grade of C or higher in that course. Students who transfer to Dalhousie University prior to Year 3 must satisfy all Dalhousie Admissions requirements for admission to their program of placement.

No. Admission to Year in disciplines is a course-based transfer. For example, to enter the Chemical Engineering program a student must have completed all of the Year 1 and Year 2 courses including the three discipline-specific courses for Chemical Engineering and hold a Chemical Engineering placement for that admission cycle.

Students who hold a cash renewable scholarship that would be eligible for renewal at their AU if they were to return in the subsequent year are eligible for scholarship value matching up to $5000 under the following conditions:
1) You have completed all required course work for admission to the program to which you have a placement by the end of the WInter term preceding admission.
2) You have a cumulative Engineering GPA >= 3.85 at the time you complete all of your admission requirements and
3) You have applied for a Year 3 Admission Scholarship by April 30 in the Winter term preceding admission. If any of those 3 conditions are not met, then scholarship matching will not occur. Scholarships do not transfer - We will simply match up to $5000 for one year. Please note that scholarship matching does not occur for any third party scholarships or awards.

 Students who wish to take the non co-op accelerated Industrial Engineering program start in the summer following the completion of their 1st & 2nd year courses. More information can be found here under Program Curriculum: Undergraduate Programs (BEng) - Department of Industrial Engineering - Dalhousie University

Students with a fall 2025 placement in Electrical Engineering were emailed on April 1, 2025, with instructions on how to apply to the Computer Engineering program. If you believe you should have received this email but did not, please check your junk mail folder.

Students who were not initially placed in the Electrical Engineering program will need to complete all the required courses to switch to the Computer Engineering program. This will likely delay their entry into the third year. The required courses are Data Structures & Algorithms, Circuit Analysis, and Digital Circuits.

Students entering their third year at Dal in Fall 2025 will be the last cohort eligible to take the Computer Engineering Option in Electrical Engineering. This means that if you start your third year in 2026 or later, the option will no longer be available.

Please contact engineering@dal.ca