Nipissing University

Programs

Range spans

70–80

With co-op

Nipissing University is a public university located in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. Its scenic hilltop campus overlooks Lake Nipissing. The university has established a strong reputation in fields such as education, arts, science, business, and nursing, and is home to the prestigious Schulich School of Education.

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How Nipissing 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

Which mark they use when you take a course twice.

We will use the highest grade achieved to calculate the average.

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Summer school, night school, e-learning and private school

Whether courses taken outside your regular day school are treated the same.

We accept all courses completed at Ministry-inspected and -approved schools.

Schools must send midterm and/or final grades for these courses to the OUAC by April 24, 2026, to be included in the regular admission decision timelines.

Schools should submit summer school grades by August 15, 2026.

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Your Grade 11 marks

Whether they look at Grade 11, and when.

Some applicants may receive conditional offers based on Grade 11 grades.

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Whether your OUAC ranking matters

Does the order you list programs in change anything?

We do not use application ranking for admission decisions. We make an admission decision for every application choice.

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If you don't get your first choice

Whether they'll offer you a related program instead.

If applicants do not meet admission requirements or admission averages for the program(s) they have applied to, we will automatically consider them for an alternative program they do qualify for. Further information: www.nipissingu.ca/departments/office-registrar/ admission-requirements/undergraduate/alternate-offers.

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Supplementary applications

Whether this university wants more than marks.

We do not require supplemental applications for any of our undergraduate programs for students coming directly from high school.

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Automatic entrance scholarships

Money you get for your average without applying for it.

Guaranteed to all high school students admitted to fulltime studies with a minimum final average of 80% or higher in their best six 4U/M courses, not including prerequisites, or an IB score of 30 or higher (including bonus points).

Students with 95% or higher (IB score of 39 or higher) will receive free domestic tuition. These scholarships are automatic and do not require an application. www.nipissingu.ca/highschoolawards

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Scholarship deadlines

May 1, 2026

Scholarships you have to apply for

Awards beyond the automatic ones.

Chancellor's Award: $10,000, renewable for up to 3 additional years. www.nipissingu.ca/scholarships-bursaries-awards/ chancellors-award

Entrance Awards and Bursaries: $500 - $3,000+ www.nipissingu.ca/awards

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Bursaries

www.nipissingu.ca/financialaid

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Special consideration

If something happened that affected your marks.

We are committed to diversity, equity and accessibility and have reserved spaces in our undergraduate programs for students from groups including, but not limited to: o persons with disabilities, o economically disadvantaged individuals, o Franco-Ontarians, o Indigenous persons, o visible minorities, o LGBTQ+ individuals and o those from northern, remote and rural areas.

Contact the Admissions Office at admissions@nipissingu.ca or ext. 4600.

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Deferring your offer

Taking a year before you start.

Students may submit a request for a deferral form. Before submitting a request, students must accept their offer of admission, meet all conditions of their offer and have no outstanding documents.

Students may not attend any other postsecondary institution during their deferral period.

www.nipissingu.ca/departments/office-registrar/ admission-requirements/deferral-requests.

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When offers go out

Offers of admission are made on a rolling basis as grade information is received, with most decisions being released within the following admission rounds: o Round #1 • Beginning of December o Round #2 • Beginning of March o Round #3 • Beginning of May o A final round will take place at the end of July provided space remains in the programs the applicant has applied to.

Tuition deposit

A tuition deposit is not required for domestic students. • Information for international students: https://international.nipissingu.ca/application-steps

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AP and IB

AP: We encourage applicants who completed AP courses to submit their examination results.

We will grant transfer credit for most AP courses completed with a grade of 4 or higher, to a maximum of 18 credits. Our College Board number is 4149.

IB: We will consider applicants who successfully complete the IB diploma with at least 6 subjects, including 3 at the Higher Level, with a minimum final grade total of 24.

We may grant transfer credit to a maximum of 30 credits for diploma completion or individual courses completed at the Higher Level or Standard Level with a grade of 5 or higher.

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Changing programs

Redesigned Sociology Program - Beginning in the fall of 2026, Nipissing is launching a newly redesigned Sociology program that integrates the strengths of Anthropology, Gender Equality & Social Justice, and Religions & Cultures into one interdisciplinary degree structured around 5 flexible curriculum concentrations offering students more options and a clearer pathway to their goals. Concentrations include: o Health, Death and Wellness o Education and Society o Social Analysis and Public Policy o Environment and Social Justice o Media, Communications and Culture

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Transfer credit

www.nipissingu.ca/transfer-college-or-university

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English proficiency

Information about acceptable proof of English proficiency is available at: www.nipissingu.ca/applyinternational.

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Nipissing's GPA scale — the percentage scale you are graded on once you arrive, from the registrar

Nipissing admission requirements — which courses its programs ask for, what you need by set of courses, and where the ranges sit

Nipissing acceptance rate — why there isn’t one, and the published bars that decide instead

Nipissing application deadline: January 15, 2027 through OUAC, then the dates its programs print, supplementary and scholarship closings, and when offers go out

Nipissing tuition 2026–27: $6,138.36 a year for arts and science, and what engineering, business and international students pay

Nipissing entrance scholarships — all 27, and what your average is worth

What you apply to, by subject

Nipissing admits into 7 entry points across these 35 subjects. Some are direct entry; for the rest you apply to something broader and choose later.

How Nipissing is set up

Not a ranking — the structural facts that shape what a year here feels like, computed from Nipissing’s own listings. Universities list at different grain (Nipissing lists 33), so read the counts rather than comparing percentages between campuses.

12%

of programs offer co-op

4 of 33 listings. Almost everyone here is on campus for the whole degree.

5/27

subjects you apply straight into

Most subjects here start with a broader first year — you apply to the faculty and choose the subject later, so 22 of the 27 common majors are declared after you arrive.

Living there

Guaranteed

first-year residence

Last year’s terms (Fall 2026). The Fall 2027 dates weren’t posted when this was checked.

For students applying straight from high school with an offer of admission by May 22, who send the residence application and $400 deposit by June 1. Everyone else is placed in the remaining rooms by lottery.

Source: nipissingu.ca · checked September 11, 2026

4,658

full-time undergraduates

Fall 2025 count.

Source: Council of Ontario Universities (Ministry data, which counts diploma and certificate students too) · checked September 11, 2026

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Nipissing open house 2026

Every Ontario university open house this fall

Ontario Universities’ Fair, September 26–27. Nipissing University runs 2 different talks in room 703. Plan your day

A university fair on this campus, Monday, September 14. 21 universities send a table, it is free, and it runs 5 to 7 p.m. at NUSU Student Centre, Nipissing University. Every city and date

Where it is

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