Bachelor of Commerce Popular Transfer Routes

• English - ENGL 112
• Economics – EC 111 and EC 211
• Math – MA 113 or STAT 151
• Non-commerce electives

You need to know:

• You can’t go directly from high school into the U of A commerce program.
• You need to take a pre-professional year of general arts and sciences courses. Then you apply to get into the commerce program for the next 3 years

The U of A requires a minimum 2.3 GPA to transfer. However, as admission is competitive transfer GPAs have been between 3.0 and 3.3.

Apply to U of A by March 1 of your pre-professional year. June 15 is the deadline for all relevant documents such as transcripts

When you transfer into year 2, you are placed in a cohort program that matches groups of students together for their 6 core courses. 

You choose a major in year 3.

U of A also has a co-op program.

You choose 27 – 30 transferable credits from UT and business courses.

In order to transfer a full 30 credits, you would need to take 5 courses in your first semester and 6 courses in the second semester. This is because AC130/230 only transfers as one course.

• Math and Stats - MA 113 ​and STAT 151

• Economics - EC 111 and EC 211

• Accounting - AC 130 and AC 230

• Marketing - MK 170

• Organizational Behaviour - BA 120

• Non-commerce electives

See the ​[master course list] for course details.

You need to know

• Apply for admission to the Edwards School of Business before the Feb 15 deadline.

• Supply all documents by March 1. This includes your final high school transcript as well as an in-progress Lakeland transcript.

• Expected target grade average at Lakeland for a successful transfer is usually between 70 and 75%

• Edwards School of Business program overview 

• We recommend only one year at Lakeland and to transfer to year 2 at MacEwan.
• In both year 1 and 2 you take basic business fundamentals
• In your final 2 years you specialize in one of 6 majors. Check out MacEwan’s BComm details.
• Recent competitive admission GPA was 2.5