Algoma University
Programs
62
Range spans
65–70
With co-op
24
Algoma University, commonly shortened to Algoma U, is a Canadian public university in the province of Ontario, with campuses in Brampton, Sault Ste. Marie, and Timmins. Algoma U offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees and graduate certificate programs in liberal arts, sciences and professional disciplines.
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How Algoma actually handles things
From the OUAC’s Guidance Dialogues Resource Guide (Spring 2026), which OUAC publishes for guidance counsellors rather than students. Read the original. Policies change — confirm anything you’re about to act on.
- If you repeat a course
We will use the highest grade to calculate the admission average.
- Summer school, night school, e-learning and private school
We grant equal standing to all courses recognized by the Ministry of Education.
- Your Grade 11 marks
Applicants may receive early offers of admission based on Grade 11 grades.
- Whether your OUAC ranking matters
Not taken into consideration.
- If you don't get your first choice
Yes, if a student is not eligible for their program of choice, we will automatically consider them for an alternative program.
- Supplementary applications
Bachelor of Arts in Music: Audition required. • Bachelor of Fine Arts: Portfolio required.
- Automatic entrance scholarships
Top 6 Grade 12 U/M courses are automatically considered for our entrance awards. Awards are renewable for up to 4 years, up to the maximum value, if the student maintains an average listed within the award level, based on full-time studies. | www.algomau.ca/awards
- Scholarship deadlines
June 30, 2026, for Entrance Scholarships that require an application.
- Scholarships you have to apply for
www.algomau.ca/awards • SHSM Entrance Awards available.
- Bursaries
We offer a number of bursaries for students through the Financial Aid Office and the Scholarships and Awards Office.
Bursaries have fall application deadlines and we issue them in the winter.
Students can apply through their student portal.
- Special consideration
The Assistant Registrar makes special consideration on an individual basis. We encourage students to submit a petition form to the Academic Regulations and Petitions Committee to apply for special consideration.
- Deferring your offer
Students we offer admission to may defer their offer for 1 year, as long as they do not attend any academic institutions (high school or postsecondary) during that year.
- When offers go out
We issue offers of admission on an ongoing basis to students who meet the admission requirements based on their Grade 11 and/or first-semester Grade 12 grades.
Algoma University Access Program available for all students. https://algomau.ca/admissions/admissions-requirements/ algoma-university-access-program
- Tuition deposit
Fall: $200 • Winter: $200 • Spring: $100
- AP and IB
AP: Students who completed AP courses in appropriate subjects with a grade of 4 may receive transfer credit. Students must also meet the standard university requirement of six 4U/M courses.
IB: Students who completed IB courses in a Canadian high school may receive transfer credit. To receive transfer credit for a specific course, a student must receive a score of 5 or higher in a Standard Level or Higher Level course and must have achieved a minimum of 28 points in the IB diploma. Students must also meet the standard university requirement of six 4U/M courses.
- Changing programs
Bachelor of Social Work now offered at the Brampton Campus. • Bachelor of Arts in Economics now offered at the Brampton Campus. • Bachelor of Computer Science has 2 new specializations: o Data Science and Artificial Intelligence o Immersive Technologies
- Transfer credit
We offer a generous transfer credit policy to students with previous university or college education. www.algomau.ca/transfers-pathways
For more information, email: pathways@algomau.ca.
- English proficiency
International students who have not completed their last 3 years of full-time studies in English in a country where English is an official language must provide an English-language proficiency test score. www.algomau.ca/english-language-requirements
Accepted test scores: o CAEL score of 60+ o IELTS score of 6.0+ (overall and each band) o TOEFL score of: 550+ (paper based) or 83+ (computer or home edition) o Duolingo score of 110: No band below 95 for Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Bachelor of Science in Biology and Bachelor of Science in Psychology. No band below 90 for all other undergraduate or graduate programs.
Students without proof of English-language proficiency or who do not meet minimum requirements can complete an English-language program with one of our many English-language Pathway partners. https://algomau.ca/students/international-students/ international-partnerships/language-pathway-partners
Which mark they use when you take a course twice.
Whether courses taken outside your regular day school are treated the same.
Whether they look at Grade 11, and when.
Does the order you list programs in change anything?
Whether they'll offer you a related program instead.
Whether this university wants more than marks.
Money you get for your average without applying for it.
Awards beyond the automatic ones.
If something happened that affected your marks.
Taking a year before you start.
Algoma's GPA scale — the percentage scale you are graded on once you arrive, from the registrar
Algoma acceptance rate — why there isn’t one, and the published bars that decide instead
Algoma entrance scholarships — all 19, and what your average is worth
What you apply to, by subject
Algoma admits into 17 entry points across these 35 subjects. Some are direct entry; for the rest you apply to something broader and choose later.
- accounting
- architecture
- biochemistry
- biology
- chemistry
- commerce/business
- communications
- computer science
- criminology
- earth science
- economics
- education
- engineering
- english
- environmental science
- finance
- geography
- health sciences
- history
- kinesiology
- languages
- life sciences
- marketing
- mathematics
- medical sciences
- microbiology
- neuroscience
- nursing
- philosophy
- physics
- political science
- psychology
- sociology
- software engineering
- statistics
How Algoma is set up
Not a ranking — the structural facts that shape what a year here feels like, computed from Algoma’s own listings. Universities list at different grain (Algoma lists 62), so read the counts rather than comparing percentages between campuses.
39%
of programs offer co-op
24 of 62 listings. Co-op is a real option here but not the default path.
16/20
subjects you apply straight into
You mostly apply directly to the subject: 16 of 20 common majors are direct entry, so first year is already your program.
Living there
Not guaranteed
first-year residence
Algoma says it sometimes gets more residence applications than rooms, and offers spaces from a waitlist as they open up. Residence is on the Sault Ste. Marie campus only.
Source: algomau.ca · checked September 11, 2026
3,295
full-time undergraduates
Fall 2025 count, including the Brampton and Timmins campuses.
Source: Council of Ontario Universities (Ministry data, which counts diploma and certificate students too) · checked September 11, 2026
Compare first-year residence at every Ontario campus
Ontario Universities’ Fair, September 26–27. The Algoma University talk is in room 706, 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., both days. Plan your day
A university fair on this campus, Wednesday, September 16. 21 universities send a table, it is free, and it runs 5 to 7 p.m. at Algoma University, George Leach Centre. Every city and date
All 62 programs
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- 70%Biology (BSc 3 year)OUAC JFA
- 70%Biology (BSc 4 year)OUAC JGA
- 70%Business Administration - Aviation Management (Brampton) (BBA 4 Year)OUAC JDK· co-op
- 70%Business Administration - Economics (Brampton) (BBA 4-year)OUAC JDN· co-op
- 70%Business Administration – Accounting (BBA 4 year)OUAC JDD· co-op
- 70%Business Administration – Accounting (Brampton) (BBA 4 year)OUAC JDH· co-op
- 70%Business Administration – Economics (BBA 4 year)OUAC JDE· co-op
- 70%Business Administration – Human Resources Management (BBA 4 year)OUAC JDF· co-op
- 70%Business Administration – Human Resources Management (Brampton) (BBA 4 year)OUAC JDI· co-op
- 70%Business Administration (BBA 4 year)OUAC JDA· co-op
- 70%Business Administration (Brampton) (BBA 4 year)OUAC JDB· co-op
- 70%Computer Science - Co-op Stream (BCOSC 4-year)OUAC JFM· co-op
- 70%Computer Science - Co-op Stream (Brampton) (BCOSC 4 Year)OUAC JFO· co-op
- 70%Psychology (BA 3 year)OUAC JAR
- 70%Psychology (BA 4 Year Honours)OUAC JBG
- 70%Psychology (Brampton) (BA 3 Year General)OUAC JBP
- 70%Psychology (Brampton) (BA 4 Year Honours)OUAC JBQ
- 70%Psychology (Brampton) (BA 4 year Non-Honours)OUAC JBM
- 70%Psychology (BSc 4 year)OUAC JGC
- 70%Social Work (Brampton) (BSW 4 year)OUAC JHC
- 70%Social Work (BSW 4 year)OUAC JHA
- 65%Accounting (BA 3 year)OUAC JAA
- 65%Anishinaabe Studies (BA 3 year)OUAC JAU
- 65%Anishinaabemowin (BA 3 year)OUAC JAB
- 65%Community Development (BA 3 year)OUAC JAC
- 65%Community Economic and Social Development (BA 3 year)OUAC JAD
- 65%Community Economic and Social Development (BA 4 year)OUAC JBA
- 65%Community Economic and Social Development (Brampton) (BA 3 year)OUAC JBL
- 65%Community Economic and Social Development (Brampton) (BA 4 year)OUAC JBK
- 65%Computer Science - Data Science and AI (BCOSC 4 Year)OUAC JAJ· co-op
- 65%Computer Science - Data Science and AI (Brampton) (BCOSC 4 Year)OUAC JFR· co-op
- 65%Computer Science - Mobile Software Engineering (BCOSC 4 Year)OUAC JFH· co-op
- 65%Computer Science - Online (BCOSC 3 Year)OUAC JFP· co-op
- 65%Computer Science – Computer Games Technology (BCOSC 4 year)OUAC JFF· co-op
- 65%Computer Science – Computer Games Technology/Creative Arts (BCOSC 4 year)OUAC JFG· co-op
- 65%Computer Science (BCOSC 3 year)OUAC JIA· co-op
- 65%Computer Science (BCOSC 4 year)OUAC JEA· co-op
- 65%Computer Science (Brampton) (BCOSC 3 year)OUAC JFE· co-op
- 65%Computer Science (Brampton) (BCOSC 4 year)OUAC JFC· co-op
- 65%Computer Science (BSc 3 year)OUAC JFB
- 65%Computer Science (BSc 4 year)OUAC JGB
- 65%Economics (BA 3 year)OUAC JAG
- 65%Economics (Brampton) (BA 3 year)OUAC JDO
- 65%English (BA 3 year)OUAC JAH
- 65%English (BA 4 year)OUAC JBB
- 65%Environmental Science (BSc 4 Year)OUAC JES
- 65%Finance and Economics (BA 4 year)OUAC JBC
- 65%Finance and Economics (Brampton) (BA 4 year)OUAC JDC
- 65%Fine Arts (Visual Arts) (BFA 4 year)OUAC JCA· supp. app
- 65%Geography (BA 3 year)OUAC JAK
- 65%Geography (BA 4 year)OUAC JBJ
- 65%History (BA 3 year)OUAC JAL
- 65%History (BA 4 year)OUAC JBD
- 65%Law and Justice (BA 3 year)OUAC JAN
- 65%Law and Justice (BA 4 year)OUAC JBE
- 65%Music (BA 4 year)OUAC JMU· co-op· supp. app
- 65%Political Science (BA 3 year)OUAC JAQ
- 65%Political Science (BA 4 year)OUAC JBF
- 65%Sociology (BA 3 year)OUAC JAS· co-op
- 65%Sociology (BA 4 year)OUAC JBH· co-op
- 65%Undeclared Major (BA 4 Year)OUAC JGD
- 65%Visual Arts (BA 3 year)OUAC JAI