BA/BS in Geology at Acadia University in Wolfville, Canada is a bachelor's degree in Earth Sciences & Geology 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).
Also offered as: Master's Degree
At a glance
Degree:Bachelor's Degree
Field:Earth Sciences & Geology
Delivery: On Campus
Local tuition: CAD 10,986 / year
International tuition: CAD 25,173 / year
Information for the 2027/28 academic year · Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
This Geology program leads to a Bachelor of Science and provides foundational training in Earth sciences, combining core geology courses with chemistry, mathematics, and physics. Students can complete the degree as a major, honours, double major, or minor. The program meets Nova Scotia's provincial legislative requirements for professional registration and satisfies the Canadian geoscience knowledge requirements set by Geoscientists Canada. First-year students begin with an introductory course on Earth systems, and advanced coursework covers mineralogy, petrology, structural geology, and igneous petrology, alongside a co-op work-term option available to students in the program. Field work is emphasized throughout, culminating in an intensive senior field school course taken in the final year. Delivery is on campus at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and a related research-based master's degree in Geology is offered for students who want to continue in the field. The program suits students interested in fieldwork-heavy science who are aiming toward careers such as exploration geologist, energy geologist, geochemist, hydrogeologist, marine geologist, or geophysicist, given its professional-registration pathway and field-school culmination.
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) and IB Chemistry 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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