Honours Health and Society I is a honours degree in Health Sciences programme offered by McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. Tuition for international students is CAD 47,416 per year (CAD 6,043 per year for local students).
Honours Health and Society I is a first-year entry pathway that leads automatically into the Honours Health & Society B.A. after the first year. Its curriculum draws on economics, sociology, geography, social work, and political science to examine the social determinants of health, aging and well-being, mental health and illness, community services and housing, and barriers to equitable health care. Class sizes are described as smaller to support closer contact with instructors, and first-year students take an exclusive research-inquiry course. A five-year co-op stream with paid work terms is available, and a field-placement course is included in the third year; study-abroad options exist at more than seventy destinations. Students can pursue Mental Health and Addiction as a specialization or a minor, and a concurrent Mohawk College certificate is available in Business Studies or Disability Management. The program suits students aiming for roles in government, healthcare administration, non-profit organizations, policy or program work, or mental-health and addictions services, and it is delivered at McMaster University's Hamilton campus.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Health and Society is a Faculty of Social Sciences direct-entry programme with an exclusive Level I Inquiry course. Ontario applicants apply through OUAC with an Ontario Secondary School Diploma including six Grade 12 U/M courses; the programme page does not itemise its own prerequisites and defers to McMaster's central Admission Requirements Tool, which sets the specific Grade 12 courses, English U among them, required for entry. Admission is competitive on the applicant's top-six average. International applicants present a secondary credential recognised as equivalent to the OSSD, with the same prerequisites, and are assessed on the same competitive basis. Applicants whose first language is not English must submit an accepted test score: IELTS Academic 6.5 overall with no band below 6.0, or TOEFL iBT 86 overall with a minimum of 20 per component for tests taken before 21 January 2026, unless exempt through at least four years of full-time study in English.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Application deadline 1 April 2027 for domestic and international applicants, with an earlier 1 February 2027 Equal Consideration review date.
