Admission and Advanced Standing

Eligible students looking to transfer to Telfer’s BCom may do so by submitting their application for admission on the Ontario Universities’ Application Centre website: https://www.ouac.on.ca/.

Admitted students are given advanced standing for their course work if their performance and the course content have been judged to be appropriate for the program. It is the applicants’ responsibility to provide all documents to allow for a complete evaluation of the courses taken elsewhere.

To obtain a degree from the University of Ottawa, a student must complete at least 50% of the units of their program at the University of Ottawa and must meet all the specific requirements of their program. This condition limits the maximum number of units of advanced standing that can be awarded.

If you have completed at least two years of full-time study in the same Canadian college program, you might be granted some advanced standing upon admission.

You can also apply to the University of Ottawa after one year of college. However, we will not grant you any advanced standing.

Please check below for more information regarding the admission and potential advanced standing for college transfer students.

College of Applied Arts and Technology (CAAT) diploma

If you are an Ontario college student interested in transferring, you may wish to consult the Ontario College University Transfer Guide.

In 2014, we created a program for college transfer students, in partnership with colleges in Ontario, with the goal to streamline their admission to our BCom program and formalize their advanced standing.

The agreement for college transfers is a blanket model that is not a course-by-course match. The number of advanced standing and the specific courses granted in advanced standing is granted based on the length of program and field of study.

Transfer students receive 45 units of advanced standing for a College of Applied Arts and Technology (CAAT) 3-year diploma in business, 30 units of advanced standing for a CAAT 2-year diploma in business and 15 units of advanced standing for a CAAT 2‑ or 3‑year non-business diploma, as shown below:

Advanced standing is only granted once an applicant has accepted an offer of admission. Students admitted with advanced standing are invited to consult our Course sequence page. It provides all the tools and resources necessary to create a personalized course sequence and understand their program requirements.

Bachelor’s degree program offered by a college

An increasing number of Canadian colleges are starting to offer bachelor’s degree programs. If you are currently enrolled in or have graduated from such a program, see the Canadian university transfers page, as the same requirements apply.

Students currently enrolled in or who have graduated from a bachelor’s degree program either at a Canadian university or college are eligible to receive advanced standing on a course-by-course basis if they have received a grade of at least 60%.

The offer of admission may contain a list of courses received as advanced standing. If you think you are eligible to receive more advanced standing, please submit your request to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for evaluation before the start of your first term. As the evaluation procedure may take up to 20 business days, students are strongly encouraged to submit their advanced standing evaluation request as soon as they accept their offer of admission. Please kindly note that only accept advanced standing request submitted within 1 year following admission will be considered.

You will find below some useful links to prepare your advanced standing request:

• To know the codes of all ADM courses offered at the University of Ottawa, please see the administration (ADM) course catalogue.

• To know the codes of all courses offered by other faculties (PHI, FRA, ECO, MAT, off-faculty electives), please see the course catalogue.
• For a list of all courses required in a specific program option, see Program options.

Students admitted with advanced standing are invited to consult the Course sequence page. This page provides all the tools and resources necessary to create a personalized course sequence and understand program requirements.