At The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, Geological Engineering: Master of Engineering (MEng) - UBCV is offered as a master's degree in Mining & Oil Engineering programme. The programme runs for 1 year, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 27,419 per year (CAD 6,975 per year for local students).
At a glance
Degree:Master's Degree
Field:Mining & Oil Engineering
Duration: 1 year
Delivery: On Campus
Language: English
Local tuition: CAD 6,975 / year
International tuition: CAD 27,419 / year
Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
The MEng in Geological Engineering at UBC's Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences is a course-based professional master's rather than a research degree. Its organising theme is how engineers identify and manage geological variability, uncertainty and geo-risk when designing, and the graduate courses lean heavily on case histories and project work that tie field techniques and field data to advanced numerical modelling, so that students understand the underlying processes and interactions that can undermine an engineering design. Although the degree is driven entirely by coursework, every student must also produce a graduating paper. The programme is delivered in person at the Vancouver campus and is intended as professional development for practitioners; recent graduates have gone on to geotechnical and environmental consulting firms and to mining and oil and gas companies.
Requirements
Minimum GPA:76.00 / %
Admission Requirements: This Master of Engineering is administered by UBC's Faculty of Applied Science rather than the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. The Faculty of Applied Science's general graduate minimum applies: an overall average in the B+ range (76% at UBC) in third- and fourth-year courses for Canadian or American bachelor's degree holders, from an engineering or related background. Applicants from countries not exempted (which include the US, UK, and Australia) must submit an English test (TOEFL, IELTS, or MELAB) within 24 months of applying; the exact minimum is set by the department, and the department's own admissions page named no numeric threshold this run could confirm. The Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences' own application page lists three reference letters, two official copies of all post-secondary transcripts, and an optional GRE score as the standard application components; this is a course-based degree completed in about one year with a graduating paper rather than a thesis.
Application Details
Start Date:September
Application Deadline:Domestic and international undergraduate applicants both apply through EducationPlannerBC for Winter Session 2027/28 (September 2027 entry) and Summer 2027: applications open in early October 2026 and the equal-consideration deadline is 15 January 2027, 11:59 p.m. PST, the same date for both groups; a few programs keep reviewing late applications on a space-available basis afterwards. Earlier dates apply only to entrance-award consideration -- 15 November 2026 for the International Scholars Program and 1 December 2026 for Presidential/Centennial/Beyond Tomorrow scholars. Several limited-entry programmes -- Law, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Nursing (advanced entry), Occupational/Physical Therapy, Social Work and Teacher Education -- set their own earlier deadlines from October 2026 through February 2027. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
