Honours Arts (includes 28 majors) admission requirements for International Baccalaureate (IB) high school students

Program requirements

HL or SL English A - minimum 4 or HL English B - minimum 5; total 27

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 need to provide an English language test score if your four most recent years of full-time education have not been in an English language school system.

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