General Information
Each year, the Canadian Forces selects, sponsors and sends to graduate study a number of officers to obtain education and qualification in subject areas of special importance and need to the military. These areas of speciality are denoted as the Academic Qualification (AQ) and are denoted within the military administration by a four letter alphanumeric code.
Some of the descriptors used by the military for the AQ codes link directly to a degree programme such as the ADTU, AEOV, AEOW, AEOX, AEPB, AESV that are respectively named Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Nuclear, and Chemical Engineering, and Business Administration. Other codes may not link in an obvious way to a degree programme such as ADOM Aerospace Systems, ADSB Telecommunications Management and AEPC Guided Weapons Systems, all of which require study in Electrical Engineering; AEOR Underwater Acoustics and AIEI Ocean Acoustics lie in Physics; and AESX Military Strategic Studies lies in War Studies.
Some AQ codes describe a speciality that may be best realized via an interdisciplinary programme tailored to meet the needs of the military and the sponsor. These include AENM Operations Research, AEPM Management Information Systems, AERK Systems Engineering, all of which would involve the Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science, and Business Administration.
Graduate degrees currently offered at RMC under Department of National Defence sponsorship are listed by degree title in the left hand column below. For convenience, in the right hand column where available are shown the corresponding AQ designators for those programmes of graduate study sponsored under the Canadian Forces Postgraduate General Training Program which are normally available at RMC.
Table of Academic Qualification (AQ) Codes
- Master of Arts in War Studies
- AESX, AIHZ
- Master of Business Administration
- AESV
Master of Science in
- Physics
- AEPD, AFAC, AIEI
- Ocean Science
- AEOR, AIEI
- Mathematics
- AENM, AERK, AEZV, AIQD
- Materials Science
- AENF
- Computer Science
- AEPM, AEPR, AEYN, AIQD
Master of Engineering and Master of Applied Science in
- Ammunition Engineering
- AEXO
- Civil Engineering
- AHPI, ADUM, ADVK, AEOW, AISM
- Chemical and Materials Engineering
- ADUM, ADVK, AENF, AEPB
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ADOH, ADOM, ADON, ADQI, ADSB, ADTQ, ADTU, ADUJ, AELN, AENI, AENJ, AEOM, AEPM, AEPR, AEQF, AEYN, AIIP, AKQX
- Mechanical Engineering
- ADOE, ADUJ, AEKI, AEOV
- Nuclear Engineering
- AEOX
Doctor of Philosophy
- War Studies
- AIIL, AIIO
- Physics
- AIIH
Academic Qualification (AQ) Code Names
- ADOE
- Aircraft Structures
- ADOH
- Systems Engineer Avionics Instrumentation
- ADOM
- (MLE) Aerospace Systems Engineering
- ADON
- Aircraft Communications Systems Engineering
- ADQI
- Signal Processing Systems
- ADSB
- Telecommunications Management
- ADTQ
- Combat Systems Engineering
- ADTU
- (MEL) Master of Engineering (Electrical)
- ADUJ
- Marine Systems Control and Instrumentation Engineering
- ADUM
- Environmental Engineering
- ADVK
- Research and Development Explosives
- AEKI
- Land Mobility Systems
- AELN
- Space Systems Operations
- AENF
- NonDestructive Testing
- AENI
- Radar System Design
- AENJ
- Radar Systems Research and Circuit Design
- AENM
- Operations Research/Systems Analysis
- AEOM
- Electrical Engineering Real Time Digital System
- AEOR
- Underwater Acoustics
- AEOV
- Mechanical Engineering
- AEOW
- Civil Engineering
- AEOX
- Nuclear Engineering
- AEPB
- Chemical Engineering
- AEPD
- ElectroOptics Engineering and Maintenance
- AEPM
- ADP Management Information Systems
- AEPR
- Computer Systems Design
- AEQF
- Elec Eng Comms
- AERK
- System Engineering (Logistics Option)
- AESV
- Masters of Business Administration
- AESX
- Military and Strategic Studies
- AEXO
- Advanced Ammunition Engineering
- AEYN
- Computer Software Management
- AEZV
- Mathématique
- AFAC
- Physics
- AHPI
- Soil Mechanics
- AIEI
- Ocean Acoustics
- AIHZ
- Master of Arts in War Studies (Intelligence)
- AIIP
- Airborne Electronic Warfare Systems
- AIQD
- Modelling and Simulation
- AISM
- Force Protection Engineering
- AKQX
- Computer Network Security