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Important note for students admitted to the B.A. as of Fall 2025: you will be required to complete at least one program component offered by an academic unit in the Faculty of Arts in order to graduate with a B.A. degree (list of Arts programs available here). Details to follow by December, 2024.

University transfer

If you enter the B.A. degree:

  • with 24 or more credits of advanced standing you begin your degree in U1.
  • with 60 credits of advanced standing you begin your degree in U2.
  • in U1 or U2 your are exempt from the Arts Freshman Program and you can choose your Major/Minor/Honours programs when registering for your first semester.

Consult our Degree Planning Guide, Degree Planning Timeline and your program/Departmental advisors to confirm that you're taking the right courses for your programs.

Advanced standing credits:

  • You're eligible if you have completed university courses at another institution prior to your registration at 91˿Ƶ.
  •  You must submit - as part of the admissions process - transcripts from all previous studies.
    • If your prior university studies are not accurately recorded on your Minerva student record, consult with Service Point to discuss any missing information.

You will not be given additional credit towards your degree for any 91˿Ƶ course if you have already received a course exemption for this course as part of your advanced standing.

- Verify if you will be granted advanced standing and/or course exemptions for studies completed prior to entering 91˿Ƶ.

- Refer to the Transfer Credit website and to the eCalendar.

  • 91˿Ƶ will assign any eligible advanced standing credits as general (TRNS XXX) transfer credit as illustrated in “EXAMPLE A”.

  • If you were granted a lump sum of transfer credits as "TRNS XXX" upon your admission to 91˿Ƶ Faculty of Arts:
    • You request to have these credits articulated in order to use them towards program requirements as illustrated in “EXAMPLE B”.

How do you transfer credits completed at another university, prior to your registration at 91˿Ƶ, towards your 91˿Ƶ BA degree ?

Step 1: Declare all previous university-level studies on your application for admission.

  • If the university studies you completed prior to your registration at 91˿Ƶ are not accurately recorded on your Minerva student record, consult with Service Point to discuss any missing information.

Step 2: Ensure that your previous college/university sends your official transcript to 91˿Ƶ

Step 3: Wait for 91˿Ƶ to process your general transfer credits and to update them on your unofficial transcript in Minerva as per “Example A”.

  • Your Minerva record will be updated by October if you were admitted for the Fall term. In most cases the information will be showing on your record during the summer and prior to starting classes.

Step 4: Decide which programs of study you want to complete for your B.A. degree.

  • Review the Degree Planning Guide and meet with your departmental advisors to discuss whether courses completed prior to 91˿Ƶ can be used towards your program(s) of study.

Step 5: Use the .

  • If the departmental program advisor has assessed that the transfer credit articulated on your Minerva transcript includes courses that can be used toward a 91˿Ƶ program of study, you will need to have these courses assessed individually for course content using the Course Equivalency System.
  • Consult the Transfer Credit Policy.
  • If you have taken a French-as-a-Second-Language course, you will have to take a post-test at the French Language Centre.

Step 6: Complete the Pre-Admission Transfer Credit form.

  • It may take up to 10 working days, or longer during peak periods, to process your request.

NOTE: It is not necessary to add every university-level pre-91˿Ƶ course that you took on this form. This form should only be used for pre-91˿Ƶ courses that are counting towards the completion a 91˿Ƶ program of study.

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