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For new students as of Fall 2025: you must complete at least one Faculty of Arts program - as part of your Multi-Track, Honours or Joint-Honours requirements - to graduate with a B.A. degree.

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 Foundation Program and you can choose your Major/Minor/Honours programs when registering for your first semester.听For new students as of Fall 2025: you must complete at least one Faculty of Arts program to graduate with a B.A. degree.

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聽prior to your registration at 捆绑SM社区.
  • 聽You must submit - as part of the admissions process -聽transcripts from all previous studies.听
    • 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 捆绑SM社区 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 捆绑SM社区.

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

  • Admissions will assign any eligible advanced standing credits as general (TRNS XXX)聽transfer credit as illustrated in 鈥淓XAMPLE A鈥.

  • If you were granted a lump sum of transfer credits as "TRNS XXX" upon your admission to 捆绑SM社区 Faculty of Arts:
    • You request to have these credits articulated in order to use them towards program requirements as illustrated in 鈥淓XAMPLE B鈥.

How do you transfer credits completed at another university, prior to your registration at 捆绑SM社区, towards your 捆绑SM社区 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 捆绑SM社区 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 捆绑SM社区

Step 3: Wait for Admissions to process your general transfer credits and to update them on your unofficial transcript in Minerva as per 鈥淓xample A鈥.

  • 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 捆绑SM社区 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 捆绑SM社区 program of study, you will need to have these courses assessed individually for course content using the Course Equivalency System.
  • Consult the聽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-捆绑SM社区 course that you took on this form. This form should only be used for pre-捆绑SM社区 courses that are counting towards the completion a 捆绑SM社区 program of study.

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