Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Honours) at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Canada is a bachelor's degree in Nursing programme. The programme runs for 4 years.
At a glance
Degree:Bachelor's Degree
Field:Nursing
Duration: 4 years
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Information for the 2027/28 academic year · Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
This four-year honours Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree is delivered in an accelerated format completed over three years and four months, at both the Ottawa and Pembroke campuses. It prepares students to meet the College of Nurses of Ontario's entry-to-practice competencies, combining evidence-based teaching, interprofessional education, and simulation technology with a strong theoretical foundation in health promotion, illness and injury prevention, and recovery. Students progress from foundational to more complex nursing knowledge through academic classrooms, applied nursing skills laboratories, and simulation laboratories, alongside clinical placements in settings that range from hospitals and long-term care to home and community care. Before admission, students must provide documentation such as an immunization record, a vulnerable sector check, and CPR certification, with further clinical requirements verified in later years. The program suits students aiming for registered nurse licensure who want a compressed, intensive route to a nursing degree that combines classroom instruction with extensive hands-on clinical and simulation-based training.
Requirements
Minimum GPA:70.00 / %
Admission Requirements: Algonquin publishes these requirements for the Sept 2027 - Aug 2028 admissions year on this program's own page; the requirements for Sept 2026 - Aug 2027 are shown separately there and can differ. Program code 6616X01FWO. All applicants must satisfy both College Eligibility and Program Eligibility.
COLLEGE ELIGIBILITY: an Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) or its equivalent. A mature applicant to a degree - someone without the OSSD who is at least 19 on or before the program begins - meets college eligibility by showing academic ability equivalent to an Ontario high-school graduate, proven by finishing at least one full-time post-secondary term of five concurrent courses.
PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY: an average of at least 70% across six Grade 12 courses taken at the university (U) or university/college (M) level, and within those six one Grade 12 U English, one Grade 12 U Mathematics, one Grade 12 U Chemistry and one Grade 12 U Biology, each at 65% or better. Graduates of Algonquin's Pre-Health Sciences Pathway to Advanced Diplomas and Degrees qualify instead with a 70% minimum average including Communication Studies for the Health Sciences (ENL0078), Math for the Health Sciences (MAT0024), General Chemistry (SCI0004) and Human Biology (BIO0005), or their equivalents, each at 65% or better. Mature applicants must still meet the four subject-specific requirements, directly or by equivalency.
Applicants presenting transcripts from outside Canada must document the subjects above and may be asked for evidence of language proficiency; a domestic applicant holding international transcripts must have them assessed by the International Credential Assessment Service of Canada (ICAS) or World Education Services (WES).
ENGLISH: Academic IELTS 6.5 overall with nothing under 6.0 in any band; or TOEFL iBT 88 overall with 22 in each of reading, listening, speaking and writing where the test was sat before 21 January 2026, or 4.5 overall with 4.5 in each section where it was sat after that date; or a Duolingo English Test score of 120 overall with 120 in Literacy and nothing under 105.
Application Details
Start Date:Intake terms Algonquin lists for this program, read from its own availability table on 6 September 2026: Fall 2026 (AC Day 1 orientation 8 September 2026; Fall term classes start 9 September 2026). Term start dates come from the Registrar's Important Dates page, which also gives 11 January 2027 for the Winter 2027 term and 10 May 2027 for the Spring 2027 term. Availability changes as seats fill and an intake already under way may be closed, so check the program page before applying. Algonquin's academic year runs September to August.
Application Deadline:DOMESTIC APPLICANTS (Canadian citizens and permanent residents). Algonquin publishes no deadline unique to this program; the dates below are the college-wide Ontario colleges cycle and apply to every full-time day program. Applications go through ontariocolleges.ca, where 1 February is the equal consideration date each cycle: apply by then and your application is assessed alongside every other one received by that date, while applications arriving later are handled first-come, first-served for as long as places remain. For entry in Fall 2027 the ontariocolleges.ca application opened on 26 September 2026, colleges may begin issuing offers on 1 November 2026, the equal consideration date is 1 February 2027 and an offer must be accepted by 1 May 2027. The equal consideration date that governed the Fall 2026, Winter 2027 and Spring 2027 intakes was 1 February 2026 and has already passed, so those three starts are now first-come, first-served while seats last. Algonquin flags this program as competitive, which makes the 1 February date matter: qualified applicants who applied by then are rank-ordered on their screening results and offers go down that list, and everyone after it is admitted only while space remains or is waitlisted by date of application.
INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS. Apply directly to Algonquin on the International Application Form in its International Application Portal (AC360) rather than through ontariocolleges.ca, with a CAD 135 application fee. There is no single fixed international deadline: Algonquin asks you to confirm the program is open before applying, warns that a program's status can change to waitlisted or closed before an admissions officer reviews the file, and publishes a closing-date sheet for each intake. For the Fall 2026 intake that sheet gives this program's own dates: 16 September 2026 is the last day to apply on the International Application Portal and receive an acceptance, and 21 September 2026 is the last day to register.
