Do you need FEF4U for university in Ontario?
FEF4U is Extended French, a Grade 12 languages course.
17 of the 1,578 Ontario university programs whose prerequisites we could read require Extended French — 1%. The other 1,561 do not.
Require it
17
Share of programs
1%
Campuses
5
What you can still apply to without it
1,561 programs do not ask for FEF4U, with published ranges starting at 65%. Biggest subject areas among them:
- 193 Business Studies99% of that subject
- 183 Interdisciplinary Studies98% of that subject
- 132 Computer Science99% of that subject
- 113 Environmental Studies98% of that subject
- 105 Psychology100% of that subject
- 104 General or Integrated Engineering100% of that subject
- 102 Education Studies96% of that subject
- 96 Law & Criminology99% of that subject
- 94 Media and Communication Studies98% of that subject
- 91 Mathematics100% of that subject
- 91 Economics97% of that subject
- 90 Biological Sciences100% of that subject
Where it is required
The subjects that ask for FEF4U most often, and how much of each one does.
- 4Education Studies4%
- 3Economics3%
- 3Entrepreneurship9%
- 3International Development6%
- 3Interdisciplinary Studies2%
- 2Accounting4%
- 2Business Studies1%
- 2Human Resource Management5%
- 2Others in Subjects Related to Medicine2%
- 2Environmental Studies2%
By university
How much of each campus’s catalogue asks for it. Sorted by share, not raw count — a small campus where most programs need it matters more than a large one where few do.
Lowest ranges that require FEF4U
If you have the course but not the marks, these publish the lowest ranges of anything that asks for it.
- 70%UOFBachelor in Mental Health (Hon)
- 70%UOFBachelor of Business Administration (Hon)
- 70%UOFBachelor of Social Work
- 70%UOFCommunications and Digital Media (Hon)
- 70%LakeheadConcurrent Education (Intermediate/Senior – Teach Grades 7 to 12) (Thunder Bay)
- 70%LakeheadConcurrent Education (Primary/Junior) (Thunder Bay and Orillia)
- 70%UOFEconomy and Social Innovation (Hon)
- 70%LakeheadEnglish (Thunder Bay and Orillia)
- 70%LakeheadFrench (Thunder Bay)
- 70%UOFHuman plurality (Hon)
- 70%UOFUrban environments (Hon)
- 73–80%YorkDigital Media (BA) – Lassonde School of Engineering
- 73–80%York (Glendon)Professional Translation (BA, iBA)
- 77–87%YorkConcurrent Bachelor of Education: Environmental and Urban Change (BEd)
- 80–87%YorkNeuroscience (BSc, Co-op available) – Faculty of Science
Other languages courses
The calculator knows which of your six targets need FEF4U, and builds your average the way universities do — required courses first, whether or not they are your best marks.
Counted across the 1,578 programs whose published prerequisite text names at least one Grade 12 course. 40 listings describe their requirements in prose we do not parse into codes and are left out of every number on this page rather than assumed either way. Always confirm a prerequisite with the university before you drop a course.