Admission evaluation

Meet the general and program specific requirements

• Graduate from high school.
• Meet the English language and quantitative skills requirements.
• Review the program specific requirements for your intended program.

Complete a minimum of five approved grade 12 courses

• Take the required courses for your program(s) of interest from List A, and then add additional List A and/or B courses.
• Use the Admission Compass as a guide to determine what program(s) you are eligible to apply for.

All approved courses matter

• We are comprehensively evaluating your high school transcript.
• All approved grade 11 and 12 courses will be used in the evaluation.
• Courses not included: applied design, skills, and technologies*; career education; physical and health education; faith-based.

*Note: the following courses are approved: Entrepreneurship, Financial Accounting, Engineering, and Mechatronics.

Focus on List A courses

• List A courses are program specific and help to support your success at SFU.
• Greater emphasis is placed on List A courses in the evaluation.

Explore within List A and B courses

• SFU will remove one grade 12 course from the evaluation if you present six or more approved courses as follows:
  • If you present six or more approved List A courses, SFU will remove the lowest, non-required List A course.
  • If you present five or fewer List A courses, your lowest List B course will be removed.

Course exceptions

• If your school does not offer courses found on Lists A or B of your first choice program, or you are unable to take the courses due to personal circumstance, please complete the Student Course Exception Form.

Online Courses

• Distance learning (DL) courses/online courses can be used for admission provided that the course is complete by June 30th. Ensure that your online provider submits your final grade to the Ministry of Education.