The Graduate Diploma in Scientific Management and Leadership is offered by the Telfer School of Management in conjunction with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. The Graduate Diploma is open to students already enrolled in any of the MSc or PhD programs in the Faculty of Science. To receive the diploma, the requirements of both the primary program and of the diploma must be met. Both credentials are awarded simultaneously. The compulsory diploma courses are offered in English and in French. The optional courses are available in sufficient number in both languages to allow a student to complete all the diploma requirements in either English or French.

In accordance with the University of Ottawa regulation, students have a right to produce their assignments, their thesis, and to answer examination questions in French or in English.

Students who have completed the graduate diploma as well as their MSc or PhD are eligible to apply to another program offered by the Telfer School Management. The Admissions Committee of that program will determine whether some or all of the credits successfully completed for the diploma can be transferred.

Participating Programs

• Biology (MSc/PhD)
• Chemistry (MSc/PhD)
• Earth Sciences (MSc/PhD)
• Mathematics (MSc/PhD)
• Physics (MSc/PhD)

The professors included in the list below are members of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. This means that they are authorized to supervise or co-supervise theses.

ADJAOUD, Fodil, Full Professor
Accounting and finance

ANGUS, Douglas, Full Professor
Health economics and policy; strategic management; health care management

BARRETTE, Jacques, Full Professor
HRM practice and organization performance; work adaptation and performance; management strategies; organizational learning; organizational involvement, human resources management; performance management; integration into the workplace of people with communication disorders

BEN AMAR, Walid, Assistant Professor
Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate governance

BONACCIO, Silvia, Assistant Professor
Decision making; individual differences

GOH, Swee, Full Professor
Organizational learning and the measurement of the construct, building evaluative inquiry capacity in organizations; knowledge management and knowledge transfer and the management of change

JAANA, Mirou, Assistant Professor
Health services research and IT in healthcare

LAPIERRE, Laurent, Cross-appointment
Occupational stress; work-life balance; leader-follower work relationships

MILES, Michael, Assistant Professor
Managing organizational behaviour and human resources; management skills (basic and advanced levels); models of public and social governance; organization design; managing change

Applicants at the master’s level must apply for admission to the diploma at the same time as for the MSc program or, at the latest, towards the end of their first session of registration in the master’s. Applicants at the doctoral level must apply no later than the beginning of the second year of registration in their PhD program. All applicants must provide the following:

• A letter outlining their career plans and the relevance of the Diploma to those plans.
• A plan of study, indicating the proposed schedule for completion of the requirements of both the diploma and their primary program.
• A letter of support signed by their thesis supervisor and co-signed by the student’s primary program director.

Language requirement

Applicants whose first language is other than English and who intend to take the diploma courses in English must provide one of the following:

• A score of at least 250 (100 Internet-based) on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), with a score of at least 5 on the Test of Written English (TWE) and a score of at least 50 on the Test of Spoken English (TSE).
• A score of at least 7 in at least three of the four International English Language Testing System (IELTS) tests (Reading, Listening, Writing, Speaking) and at least 6 in the fourth.
• A score of at least 14 on the CANTEST, with no individual test score below 4.0, along with a score of 4.5 on the oral component of the test.
• Proof of completion within the last five years, of a previous degree program in an English or French language university.
• Proof of recent prolonged residence and exercise of a profession in an English or French speaking country (normally at least four years over the last six years).

Duration of the program

Minimum standards