{"id":547,"date":"2025-03-05T18:39:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T02:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/?p=547"},"modified":"2025-03-05T18:42:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T02:42:43","slug":"what-courses-do-you-need-to-get-into-ubc-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/2025\/03\/05\/what-courses-do-you-need-to-get-into-ubc-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"What courses do you need to get into UBC Engineering?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>There\u2019s been a huge push to bring greater diversity to the engineering profession.<\/h2>\n<p>UBC and other universities across Canada have been successful in increasing the proportion of women students, as well as growing the number of Indigenous students who choose engineering.<\/p>\n<p>This is great news and we will continue to do our part to encourage students from groups that have been underrepresented in the past to apply to UBC.<\/p>\n<p>One challenge is that students must have completed specific STEM courses in high school to be considered for admission. And that means they need have enrolled in specific math, physics and chemistry courses early on in their high school careers and continued to take these courses in higher grades.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re thinking about studying engineering, it\u2019s good to know what the prerequisites are so that you can meet the admissions criteria.\u00a0<strong>Taking the high school courses you\u2019ll need will enable you to keep all your options open when it comes time to apply to university.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Click on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.ubc.ca\/spotlight\/why-engineering\/what-courses-do-you-need-to-get-engineering\">THIS LINK<\/a><\/strong> to learn more about the courses you need.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s been a huge push to bring greater diversity to the engineering profession. UBC and other universities across Canada have been successful in increasing the proportion of women students, as well as growing the number of Indigenous students who choose <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/2025\/03\/05\/what-courses-do-you-need-to-get-into-ubc-engineering\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  What courses do you need to get into UBC Engineering?<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}