Offered by University of Victoria in Victoria, Canada, Kinesiology: Master of Science (MSc) is a master's degree in Sport and Exercise Science programme. The programme is delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 2,857 per semester (CAD 2,265 per semester for local students).
This Master of Science is thesis-based rather than project-based, requiring two to three years of full-time study that combines classwork, supervised research, and both a written and oral thesis defence. Supervising faculty work across stroke rehabilitation, exercise physiology, biomechanics, physical activity psychology, outdoor education and adventure recreation, and Indigenous community health.
Requirements
Minimum GPA:5.00 / 9.0
Admission Requirements: The program's own page sets out no explicit prior-degree, GPA or language-test threshold for this MSc, so the University of Victoria's general graduate standard applies: a four-year bachelor's degree with the equivalent of a minimum B (5.0) average over the last two years. Applicants whose first language is not English must meet UVic's graduate language-proficiency requirement, either IELTS Academic overall 6.5 with no band below 6.0 or TOEFL iBT overall 4.5 with no section below 4.0 (UVic's scale for tests taken from January 2026). Applicants must identify a potential supervisor and must submit assessment reports from two academic referees and a letter of intent of two pages or less covering academic background, research interest and career goals; the graduate calendar sets the program's minimum course requirements.
Application Details
Start Date:September, January and May
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through EducationPlannerBC, which opens for 2027-entry applications on 1 October 2026: most degree programmes see September 2027 entry close 31 January 2027, January 2027 entry close 30 September 2026, and Summer 2027 entry close 31 March 2027, though Teacher Education post-degree programmes close 2 January 2027, Indigenous Education post-degree admits on an ongoing basis, and Engineering's Summer entry (high-school graduates only) closes 31 December 2026. International applicants use the same portal and face identical dates, since UVic publishes no separate international deadline. UVic treats these as fixed annual dates rather than rolling admission, though it warns any programme can close early without notice. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
