Minimum average of 12 in high school diploma.

Language score:

Unconditional or direct admission: To get direct admission for a Bachelor’s degree in Canada, you need an IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent scores.

Conditional admission: For conditional admission to a language course, you need an IELTS score of at least 5 or equivalent scores. Some universities in Canada may accept you without a language score, but in that case, you must complete a language course to reach the university’s required language level.

For example: To be accepted into the Bachelor’s program in Biology at the University of Ottawa, you need to have passed language, math, biology, chemistry, and physics subjects in your 12th year of high school with a minimum grade of 14. You also need an IELTS score of 6.5 with a writing score of 6 or a TOEFL score of 86 with a writing score of 22.

After finishing high school, continuing education is possible in all provinces except Quebec. In Quebec, after completing 11th grade, a student can either enter a college program or, after completing two years of pre-university studies, enter a three-year Bachelor’s program.

In some colleges and universities in Canada, there’s a transfer program at the undergraduate level. This means that after two years of studying a diploma at a college, you can enter a university and earn a Bachelor’s degree by studying just two more years. The college and university must cooperate in the transfer program, so you can’t enter any university’s Bachelor’s program with a diploma from just any college.