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Universities Accepting Economics HL
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
Expert's Insight: Hack Your Course Expert's Take (UBC) "A 6-CREDIT HEAD START — BUT WATCH THE 'ECON 101/102' AND 'ECON MAJOR' TRAPS" The Good News: If you score 5 or higher in IB Economics HL, UBC awards you 6 credits of first-year economics as ECON_V 1st-year level (6). This is listed on UBC's official first-year cr...
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB
Expert's Insight: IB Economics HL can be a real advantage at the University of Alberta — but treat it as strategic placement, not a "skip everything" coupon. The key nuance at UAlberta is that your IB Economics HL award is designed to cover the core first-year Econ sequence (micro + macro) used by many programs. That...
McGill University
Montreal, QC
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University of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON
Expert's Insight: That 5 gets you into ECO 1104, but the university's microeconomics midterms are far more quantitative than the IB syllabus. You'll need to learn calculus applications they never taught you.
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
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McMaster University
Hamilton, ON
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University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON
Queen's University
Kingston, ON
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Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC
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