Canada

Undergraduate entry requirements for students from Canada.

Applicants from Canada are admitted to the University of Edinburgh with a range of national qualifications, the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma or A Levels.

Maple Leaf World Schools Program

Unfortunately the University of Edinburgh is unable to accept the Maple Leaf World Schools Program for entry at this time. This decision remains under review, and information will be published on this site if the situation changes.

Typical entry requirements for Canadian applicants are:

All subjects except the MBChB Medicine & Veterinary Medicine

By region

Ontario

Secondary School Diploma with six grade 12 courses at 80% (a minimum of four 4U and two 4M courses is required) with 85% in required subjects, for all degree programmes in Science/Engineering/Medical Sciences.

For Biomedical Sciences & Medical Sciences, Secondary School Diploma with six grade 12 courses to include Biology and Chemistry at 85% and the remainder at 80% (minimum of four 4U and two 4M courses required).

For all degree programmes in the College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, the Secondary School Diploma with six 4M/U courses at 80% (with no more than two 4M courses).

Ontario Secondary School

We accept the Ontario Secondary School Diploma for entry with a number of conditions:

We accept the Ontario Secondary School Diploma where it has been taught in person at a school which is authorized to grant credits towards the Ontario Secondary School Diploma. We recognise that many schools have had to move to online teaching due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We will consider students who have been taught online as a direct result of the pandemic as if they had been taught in person throughout their studies.
We accept the Ontario Secondary School Diploma where it has been taught remotely through a formalised partnership between the awarding school and an overseas school. The awarding school will be asked to provide details of the partnership, and the teaching and assessment arrangements used, and the University reserves the right to make its own judgement on whether it can accept the delivery model used.
We do not generally accept the Ontario Secondary School Diploma where it has been taught online only, through a virtual or online school, without a formalised partnership.
Awarding schools must be listed on the Canadian Government website as a school authorised to award Ontario Secondary School Diploma credits:
- Public schools
- Private schools (including international schools)
Fast track routes to the Ontario Secondary School Diploma are not accepted. We expect students to have achieved all 30 credits from Ontario Secondary School Diploma courses, and for these to be detailed on the transcript.

If a student has been studying in the Ontario education system for fewer than 3 years, the awarding school will be asked to provide details of all courses taken in the previous education system which have been assessed as meeting the requirements of the Ontario Secondary School Diploma curriculum, and the number of credits that have been awarded on that basis.

The University will not accept an Ontario Secondary School Diploma if it is not satisfied that courses studied in a different education system cover all the areas expected from a student who has studied only in the Ontario education system.

Transcripts can only be accepted if provided directly by the school and confirmed as being the final results. Transcripts provided by applicants cannot be accepted.

Quebec

Diplome D'Etudes Collegiales [DEC] / Diploma of Collegial Studies [DCS] - Overall average of 85% for all degree programmes in Science/Engineering/Medical Sciences.