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Biology SL

Sciences

15

Credit Policies

4.5

Avg. Min Grade

$1,419

Total Potential Savings

Universities Accepting Biology SL

Carleton University

Ottawa, ON

Min Grade: N/A

York University

Toronto, ON

Min Grade: N/A
No transfer credit

McGill University

Montreal, QC

Min Grade: N/A
No transfer credit

Simon Fraser University

Burnaby, BC

Min Grade: 4
SFU BISC 1XX (3)
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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

Min Grade: N/A
NO CREDIT

University of Victoria

Victoria, BC

Min Grade: N/A
No transfer credit — UVic awards IB credit for Higher Level courses only

Memorial University of Newfoundland

St. John's, NL

Min Grade: N/A

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

Min Grade: N/A
No credit — HL only

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

Min Grade: N/A
No transfer credit

University of Windsor

Windsor, ON

Min Grade: 5
BIOL-1101 (Cell Biology)
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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

Min Grade: N/A
No transfer credit

University of Manitoba

Winnipeg, MB

Min Grade: N/A

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

Min Grade: N/A
TBD

Concordia University

Montreal, Quebec

Min Grade: N/A
No transfer credit (Concordia awards IB transfer credit for HL courses only)

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

Min Grade: N/A
In progress