Business Administration: Bachelor's Degree (BA) is a bachelor's degree in Business & Management programme offered by Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada. The programme runs for 4 years, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 1,492 per credit (CAD 294 per credit for local students).
This degree pairs hands-on, applied problem-solving experience with grounding in contemporary business principles and practices. Students take part in class projects grounded in real-world scenarios, along with experience-based opportunities, while specialising in at least one of nine areas: marketing, strategic analysis, international business, finance, operations management, human resource management, management information systems, innovation and entrepreneurship, or accounting. Graduates are prepared for a wide variety of careers within business organisations.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: BC/Yukon secondary applicants (rules for Fall 2026 entry onwards): graduate from high school carrying at least five approved academic Grade 12 courses, score 70% or better in Language Arts 11 / English 12 or equivalent, and clear SFU's English language requirement and its Quantitative and Analytical Skills requirement (60% or C in an approved Grade 11 or 12 math course, or an accepted IB / A-level / GCSE / transferable equivalent). Approved AP or IB courses may stand in for the required courses. Program prerequisites — Grade 11: no specific courses are required. Grade 12: English Studies 12 or English First Peoples 12; and Pre-Calculus 12.
International secondary applicants: graduate from a university-preparatory stream at a senior high school, meet the same English language and quantitative requirements, and present senior-level Math. The admission average is taken from final-year results and SFU publishes country-by-country equivalencies; applicants short of direct entry can route through Fraser International College.
Beedie School of Business applicants must also complete a supplemental application and every other To-Do List item by 7 February for Fall entry. It carries a CAD 95.12 fee separate from the SFU application fee and asks for a short written answer, a description of achievements from the last four years, and two referees — one of whom must be a high-school teacher or counsellor. Assessors read it blind against a rubric, and the score is combined with academic performance to rank applicants; leaving it incomplete means refusal and assessment for your second-choice program. Fall applicants with a complete, eligible Undergraduate Scholars Entrance Scholarship application are excused from the Beedie supplemental. Indigenous applicants may instead complete SFU's Supplemental Indigenous Undergraduate Admission form at no cost after speaking with SFU's Indigenous Recruitment and Admissions Office. Admission is competitive and files are re-read as new marks arrive, so meeting the published minimums does not by itself secure a place.
Application Details
Start Date:Three intakes a year: Fall (September–December), Spring (January–April) and Summer (May–August). First day of classes is 5 January 2027 for Spring 2027, 10 May 2027 for Summer 2027 and 7 September 2027 for Fall 2027.
Application Deadline:Undergraduate applications are submitted on EducationPlannerBC and SFU publishes one set of dates per applicant type — high-school or college/university transfer — with no separate international deadline; document deadlines are stated as applying to all applicants. Fall 2027 entry: applications open 1 October 2026 and close 31 January 2027 for high-school applicants, while transfer applications open 1 March 2027 and close 15 April 2027. Spring 2027 entry: open 1 July 2026, closes 15 September 2026. Summer 2027 entry: open 1 December 2026, closes 15 January 2027. Admission documents are due 28 February 2027 (Fall, high-school applicants), 15 May 2027 (Fall, transfer applicants), 1 October 2026 (Spring) and 1 February 2027 (Summer); B.C. high-school applicants must also file the Student Transcript Service form by 31 January. Decisions are released on a rolling basis — early Fall offers from mid-November 2026 to January 2027, standard offers from January to late April, transfer decisions from mid-March to late June — and most Fall entrants must accept by 1 May. These are SFU's university-wide undergraduate dates, not a deadline set by this program; a few programs admit in one term only, so confirm on the program's own SFU page. Beedie School of Business applicants have one extra date: every To-Do List item, including the supplemental application, must be complete by 7 February for Fall entry (this applies to high-school and transfer applicants alike).
