At Acadia University in Wolfville, Canada, BA/BS in Applied Bioscience is offered as a bachelor's degree in Biotechnology programme. The programme is delivered on campus. Tuition for international students is CAD 25,173 per year (CAD 10,986 per year for local students).
Applied Bioscience at Acadia University combines biology and chemistry coursework with applied industry experience, offered through two specialization streams: a Biopharma stream focused on drug discovery and production, and a Beverage stream centred on the business and science of beverage production. The program opens with foundational science courses, moves into mid-program opportunities for teaching-assistant work and summer research, and concludes with advanced coursework and co-op placements; sample courses include Research Methods in Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Principles of Genetics, and Wine and Beverage Marketing. Students complete twelve months of co-op placements over the course of the degree and graduate with a minor in Business Administration alongside the bioscience credential. The program is delivered on Acadia's campus in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, drawing on the Annapolis Valley's vineyards, craft breweries, and biopharma companies as industry partners for hands-on learning. It suits students seeking a business-oriented science degree, with graduates pursuing roles such as laboratory technician, quality control scientist, agricultural researcher, process scientist, or further study toward pharmacy or dentistry.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: For IB Diploma applicants, Applied Bioscience requires IB Mathematics (Analysis and Approaches or Applications and Interpretations, SL or HL) and IB Chemistry, each with a grade of 4 or better, in addition to the general IB Diploma requirement of an overall score of 24 or better including IB English. No minimum overall average, standardized test, or application deadline specific to this program is stated on the page.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Acadia does not publish year-specific application deadlines: its live admissions pages state only that domestic and international undergraduate applicants may apply any time after September 21st, with March 1st as the priority date for entrance-scholarship consideration (decisions by mid-April); no year is attached to either date. Admission is otherwise rolling, with no separate international closing date published. The Bachelor of Education programme has its own cycle, opening October 1st, but as of September 2026 the page still shows the stale 2025-2026 cycle and no current-cycle date has been published. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
About Acadia University
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