Notable programs
BCom HBA Ivey Business School (Harvard Case Method)
Top Canadian BBA program — sometimes ranked top BBA outside the United States. The only Canadian business school teaching the Harvard case method at undergraduate and MBA levels. Third-year HBA entry from any Western faculty with ~10 percent acceptance. Cohort of ~600 students per class spending two intensive years on case-method instruction (500+ cases over the program). Dominant pipelines into Toronto banking (RBC, TD, BMO, CIBC, Scotiabank), McKinsey, Bain, BCG Toronto offices, and Bay Street investment banking analyst programs. Starting salaries CAD 90,000-115,000 base plus signing and bonuses for top placements. 2024 expanded STEM-MBA tracks add MBA-level STEM designation.
JD Western Law
Top-3 to top-5 Canadian law school. Strong corporate law and constitutional law programs. Strong placement into Bay Street firms (Blakes, Davies, Goodmans, McCarthy Tetrault, Osler, Stikeman Elliott, Torys), Ontario provincial government legal positions, and federal Canadian government legal services. Three-year JD program with concentrations in business law, criminal law, family law, intellectual property law, and Indigenous legal traditions.
MD Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
One of Canada's largest medical schools. Anchors the London teaching hospital cluster of four major facilities: London Health Sciences Centre, St. Joseph's Health Care London, Children's Hospital, and Victoria Hospital. Unusually deep clinical training infrastructure for a mid-size Canadian city. Four-year MD program with strong placement into Canadian residency programs across the country. CAD 600M+ annual research funding through teaching hospitals.
BSc Engineering
Solidly top-10 Canadian engineering program. Faculty of Engineering offers programs in chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical, software, and integrated engineering. Not in the Waterloo-Toronto-McGill top-tier engineering pipeline, but strong undergraduate research opportunities, accredited by Engineers Canada, and competitive co-op programs available. The 2024 Western AI Initiative is expanding engineering AI integration.
BA Neuroscience and Brain and Mind Institute
Canadian-leading neuroscience research depth. Department of Psychology was where Sandra Witelson conducted her famous studies on Albert Einstein's brain. The Brain and Mind Institute houses cognitive neuroscience, computational neuroscience, and clinical neuroscience research. The 2024 Western AI Initiative includes substantial neuroscience-AI cross-pollination programming. Strong undergraduate research mentorship in cognitive and computational neuroscience.
BA Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Solidly top-10 Canadian arts and humanities programs. Strong departments in English, history, philosophy, French, classical studies, modern languages, visual arts, music, and film studies. The Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) offers media studies, library and information science, and journalism. Conventional top-10 Canadian standard rather than internationally distinctive.