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Avg. Min Grade
$1,419
Total Potential Savings
Universities Accepting Biology SL
Carleton University
Ottawa, ON
York University
Toronto, ON
McGill University
Montreal, QC
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC
Expert's Insight: Expert's Take This Standard Level credit is only available to IB Diploma holders. IB Certificate students do not receive credit for SL courses at SFU. Your Biology SL credit of BISC 1XX (3) is general elective credit; it counts toward your 120-unit graduation total but does not replace a specific co...
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS
University of Victoria
Victoria, BC
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL
Expert's Insight: Expert's Take SL Biology earns no transfer credit at Memorial. The official IB chart shows Biology Standard with minimum grade "-" and "No credit." HL Biology is the only IB lever for first-year Biology credit, awarding BIOL 1001 at score 4 (3 credit hours) or BIOL 1001 + 1002 at score 5 (6 credit h...
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON
Expert's Insight: Expert's Take Biology SL earns no transfer credit at uOttawa, this is a firm policy, not a data gap. The uOttawa advanced standing table explicitly covers higher level IB courses only. Standard Level subjects are not eligible for transfer credits regardless of the score achieved. Biology appears in ...
Western University
London, ON
University of Windsor
Windsor, ON
Expert's Insight: SL earns one named course, BIOL-1101 (Cell Biology), not generic biology credit, and it is the Cell Biology half of Windsor's first-year biology pair. The companion course, BIOL-1111 (Biological Diversity), is what HL adds and is still required wherever both sit in the first-year block, including Ho...
University of Guelph
Guelph, ON
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB
Expert's Insight: Expert's Take Biology SL has no pre-approved UM equivalency in the IB section of UManitoba's approved AP/IB courses for credit. The omission is subject-specific, not a blanket SL exclusion: several SL subjects do earn credit on the same table, including Chemistry SL, Computer Science SL, Anthropolog...
Toronto Metropolitan University
Toronto, ON
Concordia University
Montreal, Quebec
Expert's Insight: Concordia awards IB transfer credit for HL courses only, so Biology SL earns no transfer credit. The HL version scoring 4 or higher is eligible for 9 transfer credits toward the 120-credit Extended Credit Program (ECP); see the Biology HL page. Official award line (IB Diploma, SL): Credit granted: N...
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton & Saint John, NB