Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa
The University of Ottawa is the largest bilingual (English-French) university in the world. Located in the heart of Canada’s capital, it became a university in 1866. With 42,000 students enrolled and a focus on internationalisation, roughly 25% of their student population are international students.
Telfer School of Management is their business school named after one university alumnus. It is one of only 2 business schools in Canada to have achieved the triple crown of accreditations which puts them in the top 1% of business schools in the world, accredited by AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS.
Essentials
Business (all majors)
Offered by University of Ottawa
Semester dates
- Fall term: August – December
- Winter term: January – April
When to apply for exchange to Telfer School of Management
- Fall term – apply by the 1 December AUT deadline
- Winter term – apply by the 1 July AUT deadline
Credit equivalence
3.75 credits = 15 AUT points
Full semester workload = 15 credits at Telfer = 60 AUT points
Exchange students are expected to take 4-5 courses, a full semester workload would be 5 courses (at 3 credits each) and this would be equivalent to 60 AUT Points.
Language
Courses are available in English, French or a mixture of both and these are clearly indicated within the course codes on their webpages. To learn more about this, check out the section on their website for ‘Course Selection’.
Exchange students can also take ‘French as a Second Language’ courses with Ottawa’s Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute (OLBI).