BA/BS in Economics is a bachelor's degree in Economics programme taught at Acadia University 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 Economics program studies how choices and incentives shape society, covering topics such as pricing mechanisms, financial systems, and the effects of policy. It can be completed as a Bachelor of Arts, which lets students focus more on people, policy, and society, or a Bachelor of Science, which goes further into data, mathematics, and modelling. Sample courses include environmental economics, contemporary economic issues, urban economics, and international trade. Students can add a co-op work-term option for workplace experience, pursue an honours program with one-on-one faculty mentorship for research-focused study, or take study-abroad terms. Delivery is on campus at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. The program suits students aiming toward analytical roles in finance, government, or business, since it builds skills in problem-solving and decision-making that graduates apply in careers such as financial analyst, data analyst, economic policy advisor, actuary, or investment analyst. The BA/BSc split lets students choose a more quantitative or more policy-oriented path depending on their career goals, while the honours option supports those aiming at graduate study in economics or a related field.
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 Mathematics (Analysis and Approaches or Applications and Interpretations, SL or HL) must 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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