Acadia University offers BA/BS in Business Administration, a bachelor's degree in Business Administration programme in Wolfville, Canada. The programme is delivered on campus. Tuition for international students is CAD 25,173 per year (CAD 10,986 per year for local students).
This Bachelor of Business Administration, delivered through Acadia's F.C. Manning School of Business, covers core business disciplines before students choose one of six majors: Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Business Technology Management, or Employment Relations. The first year consists of required foundation courses common to all majors. In the middle years, students complete required core courses while declaring a major, with a co-op work-term option available during this stage. In the final year, students may pursue an honours designation alongside their major. Instruction combines case studies and group projects with theoretical coursework, and study-abroad terms are available for students who want an international component. The program is delivered on campus at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. It suits students aiming for careers across business functions such as accounting, finance, marketing, human resources, and general management, since the shared first-year and flexible major structure lets students explore before committing to a specialization. The co-op and honours options make it adaptable for students who want applied work experience or a research-oriented finish to their degree.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: For applicants presenting the International Baccalaureate Diploma, Acadia University requires the IB Diploma including IB English with an overall score of 24 or better; a score of 30 or higher earns 30 hours of university credit. IB English and IB Mathematics (Analysis and Approaches or Applications and Interpretations, SL or HL) must each be completed with a grade of 4 or better. Applicants who have completed IB courses but do not hold the diploma are considered on their coursework, with credit given for higher-level courses graded 5, 6 or 7.
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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