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	Nipissing Concurrent Bachelor of Arts Criminal Justice/Bachelor of Education Intermediate/Senior OUAC PEG Remove	Ottawa Activité physique (B.A.P.) – Gestion du sport et des loisirs (4 ans) OUAC OPT Remove	Laurier (Waterloo) Biology (BA or BSc) OUAC UZF Remove
Your average, their wayrequired courses forced in
Published rangetheir exact wording	70%	73–80%“73%; co-op 80%”	73–77%“Mid-70s”
Required coursesforced into your top 6 — options are the row below	No course codes parsed — see prerequisites	No course codes parsed — see prerequisites	ENG4U SBI4U
Choose one ofany of these satisfies it	one of EAE4U, ENG4U	one of ENG4U, FRA4U two of PSK4U, SBI4U, SCH4U, SPH4U	—
Prerequisitesas published	ENG4U/EAE4U (minimum 70%) Minimum 60% in 3U, 3M or 4U Math	ENG4U or FRA4U One 4U Math Two of SBI4U, SCH4U, SPH4U, SPH3U, PSK4U If you do not have the mathematics prerequisite, you may take the replacement course at the University of Ottawa either the summer before or during your first term.	English at 60% Biology at 70% Prerequisite courses are calculated in the admission average.
More than marks?supplementary application	Marks only	Marks only	Marks only
Co-op	No	Available	Available
Degree	—	Bachelor of Arts (Co-op), BA (Co-op), Bachelor of Human Kinetics, BHK	—
First-year intakewhere published	—	—	—
What you study	Education Studies Law & Criminology	Hospitality, Recreation and Leisure Human Biology Sport & Exercise Science	Biological Sciences Biology Biotechnology Human Biology
What it is	This program combines a degree in criminal justice with teacher training, letting you study crime, law, and the justice system while also earning your teaching qualification. Unlike a sequential approach where you'd finish one degree then start another, you complete both simultaneously in four years. It suits people who want to teach high school subjects like law or social studies and bring real knowledge of the criminal justice system into the classroom.	You study how to manage sports facilities, recreation programs, and leisure services for communities and organizations. Unlike a general sports science program, this degree focuses on the business and administrative side — scheduling, budgeting, staffing, and customer experience — rather than personal fitness or athletic performance. The co-op work terms, built into the four-year degree, let you apply management skills in real sports and recreation settings while you study.	You study the structure and function of living organisms, from cells and molecules to whole organisms and ecosystems. The BA and BSc differ mainly in depth: the BSc requires more chemistry and physics alongside biology, preparing you for research or graduate study, while the BA offers more flexibility to combine biology with other subjects. The co-op option lets you work in labs, hospitals, or biotech companies between study terms. This program suits students curious about how life works who want hands-on experience before deciding on a career direction.
The door tomajors you reach through it	Applied to directly	Applied to directly	biology
Entrance awardsat this campus, by average	9 published, 2 with no applicationfrom 75%See them	22 published, 5 with no applicationfrom 75%See them	11 published, 1 with no applicationfrom 75%See them
Source	Nipissing University on OUInfo	University of Ottawa on OUInfo	Wilfrid Laurier University — Waterloo on OUInfo

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