Accounting and Financial Management admission requirements for International Baccalaureate (IB) high school students

Program requirements

HL or SL English A, minimum 4, or HL English B, minimum 5. HL (recommended) or SL Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches, minimum 4. Total 28.

General requirements

• IB diploma required with six total IB courses; at least three must be HL.
• Total scores exclude diploma points. Subjects required for admission to specific programs should be HL whenever possible.
• For programs which require more than three subjects for admission, SL courses will be accepted.
• For programs requiring HL or SL English A, we will accept HL English B with minimum of 5.

Notes

• You can apply either to Accounting and Financial Management (AFM) or Sustainability and Financial Management (SFM), but not both. If you're interested in other financial management programs, you can apply to Computing and Financial Management and/or Science and Financial Management in addition to your AFM or SFM application.
• If your first language is not English, you may need to meet our English language requirements.

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