Admission Requirements for Mature Students

Mature students are classified as those who are 21 years of age or older by September 1 of the entry year, with no post-secondary education. Every application for admission as a mature student is considered on its own merit.

Mature students can be admitted into King’s in one of the following two ways.

Meet general admission requirements for high school applicants:

• Five academic grade 12 courses.
  • One must be academic English.
  • Three must be standard (Examples: Math, Science, Social Studies, Languages, Fine Arts).
  • The remaining course may be any academic or non-academic grade 12 course carrying normal weight.
    • cannot be special projects or work experience.
    • two courses of lower course weight may be substituted for this fifth course.
• A minimum overall average of 60% on the above five courses.
• Must meet all program-specific requirements.

Meet general admission requirements for mature applicants:

• Completion of English 30-1, or its equivalent.
  • If the applicant does not have this requirement, they may be asked to write the King’s English Language Assessment Test (ELAT) on-campus in place of ELA 30-1.
• Must meet program-specific requirements.
  • Can be demonstrated by the submission of high school record and/or college entrance examination score.