McGill University Acceptance Rate: What Official Data Shows

Official program-by-program admission ranges

McGill does not publish one blended acceptance rate. For Ontario high-school applicants, its requirements pages publish a previous Top 6 reference average and prerequisites for each program, current as of August 25, 2026. McGill states these are references from a prior cycle, not guaranteed future cut-offs. Quebec CEGEP, IB, A-Level, CAPE, and U.S. applicants follow separate curriculum-specific requirements not shown here.

Source: McGill University admission requirements by educational background. McGill says these prior results are references only and do not guarantee future admission.

Applications, offers, and registered students

McGill’s own Enrolment Services publishes an “Admissions Profile” every term with a “Total Undergraduate” row for application, offer, and registered-student counts. McGill never labels a column “acceptance rate” — the two right-hand columns below are ratios Stellar Advisers calculated from McGill’s own published counts, not figures McGill itself states.

Source: McGill Admissions Profile, Fall 2023 and Fall 2025 (Final) editions, fetched live August 25, 2026. McGill’s Fall 2024 Admissions Profile returned a blocked automated response (HTTP 403) on the same day — that year is omitted rather than estimated. McGill states its applicant total is deduplicated across faculties, not a sum of per-faculty counts.

Fall 2025 demand by faculty

McGill publishes applications and registered students by faculty, but not offers by faculty — only the Total Undergraduate offer figure in the table above. Because faculty-level offer counts aren’t published, no per-faculty acceptance rate can be calculated from McGill’s own data.

Source: McGill Admissions Profile, Fall 2025 (Final), fetched live August 25, 2026. McGill states the applicant total across faculties is not a simple sum of the rows above, since an applicant to more than one admissions unit is counted once in the Total Undergraduate figure.

What actually determines McGill admission

The ranges above are references from a prior cycle, not guaranteed cut-offs. McGill evaluates each applicant against the rules for their educational background — Ontario Top 6, Quebec CEGEP R-score, IB, A-Level, CAPE, or U.S. curriculum — and reviews prerequisite courses within that calculation. McGill’s most demanding published references are in Engineering, where Ontario Top 6 averages run from 90% (Software Engineering) to 96% (Mechanical Engineering), well above the 90% Arts reference.

For deadlines, English and French proficiency, testing policy, and the full requirements selector by educational background, see the complete McGill admission requirements guide.

Official sources

Every figure on this page links back to the McGill source it came from.

• Admissions Profile — Fall 2025 (Final)

  McGill's own "Total Undergraduate" and by-faculty application, offer, and registered counts for Fall 2025, fetched live August 25, 2026.

• Admissions Profile — Fall 2023 (Final)

  The same official table for Fall 2023, used for the year-over-year comparison above.

• Admissions Profile — Fall 2024

  Returned a blocked automated response (HTTP 403) when checked live on August 25, 2026. No Fall 2024 figure appears on this page as a result — we do not substitute an estimate.

• Enrolment Services — registration statistics index

  McGill's own statement that its separate annual registration-statistics reports (October 15 census) cover enrolled headcounts only, with no application, offer, or admission figures — confirming the Admissions Profile is the only source for those counts.

• Admission requirements by educational background

  McGill's program-by-program admission requirements selector, organized by the applicant's educational background.

• Ontario high school requirements and previous Top 6 averages

  The current published Ontario admission-range table reused on this page, and McGill's statement that prior results are references only and do not guarantee future admission.

• McGill quick facts

  McGill's own total enrolled undergraduate headcount (28,167 for Fall 2025) for overall context — a different figure from the admissions-funnel counts above.