Entrance Requirements

Applicants must meet the following requirements:

1. All students must be at least 18 years of age at the first day of class start date.
2. Students must have earned a high school diploma (grade 12), its foreign equivalent, or a General Educational Development diploma (GED). Students are strongly recommended (however this is not mandatory) to take at least one year each of high school biology, chemistry and physics; and mathematics.
3. Students must demonstrate sufficient maturity to undertake a health care profession, including the capacity to ethically and responsibly manage professional boundaries. The University expects that most, if not all, students will exceed the minimum admission requirements.
4. Students wishing to enrol in the MBA, MSc (AT), or MSc (P) program at the minimum must have a bachelor’s degree in any field. Health professionals such as degree level osteopathic manual practitioners, chiropractors, medical doctors, doctors of osteopathy, podiatrists, pharmacists, physiotherapists, optometrists, naturopaths, dentists and doctors of naturopathy are eligible to enter these master level programs even if they do not have a bachelor’s degree as their education is equivalent to a bachelor’s degree. Massage therapists, kinesiologists, chiropodists, diploma level osteopathic manual practitioners, & acupuncturists, as well as others who do not have a bachelor’s degree must enrol in the duel degree programs of BSc/MBA or BSc/MSc.
5. Students wishing to enrol in the postgraduate post professional transitional DPT program must be physiotherapists (or physical therapists). NUMSS (USA) tDPT program is not an entry level DPT program and as such it is not open to those who are not physical therapists (or physiotherapists).
6. Students wishing to enroll in the Bachelor of Science in Massage Therapy must be a massage therapist. The BSc (MT) is not an entry level massage therapy program and as such it is not open to those who are not massage therapists.