Admission beyond 1A is limited to applicants who have an academic and work experience background that is judged equivalent to the particular class they would join. Due to the co-operative nature of an Engineering program, no student will be admitted above year three, term A level. Any student admitted to this 3A term will be required to enrol in the January term and to complete satisfactorily the final four academic terms and the final three University of Waterloo work terms and work reports.
Credit for previous work experience can be applied only to those work terms preceding the level of admission and cannot exceed three work terms.
Students who are readmitted to an engineering program are required to clear all previous failures.