An MA in sociology from McGill is also well-regarded among the world’s top universities and serves as an excellent launching point for students intending to pursue doctoral studies. 

All candidates for a sociology MA degree must complete the degree in three years. 

The Population Dynamics Option (PDO) aims to provide graduate training in demographic methods (including life table analyses) and enhance students’ knowledge of critical population issues. 

As such, students will be required to take a course on demographic methods and an overview substantive course on the key population issues facing societies today. 

In addition, students will take one complementary course in Sociology; Economics; or Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, which focuses on a particular population issue such as population health, migration, aging, family dynamics, and/or labour markets and skills acquisition. 

Students will attend at least five Social Statistics and Population Dynamics Seminar series seminars. 

Research Projects must be on a topic relating to population dynamics and approved by the PDO coordinating committee.

• Academic/Official Transcripts
• Language Proficiency (If Applicable)
• Passport or Visa Documents
• Resume/Curriculum vitae (CV)
• Personal Statement
• Writing Sample
• GRE (required for applicants who have not received a degree from a Canadian university)

• A bachelor's degree in Sociology or in another relevant social science.
• CGPA of 3.3 or better out of a possible 4.0.
• Many students entering the MA program have already taken the equivalent of one or more of the following required undergraduate level courses: Sociological Perspectives; Sociological Inquiry; Classical Sociological Theory; Statistics in Social Research.
• GRE scores in the 80th percentile or better