St. Francis Xavier University

For admission to all programs at StFX, all student types must complete required pre-requisite courses for admission consideration.

Your requirements will differ, depending on your province/country and program of choice. Please check the university website for requirements specific to your conditions. 

The general requirements will be the following:

1. Transcripts
2. Preparatory courses
3. Online application

👉 For an undergraduate application (For HS/Mature Students)

Please note that applicants to Nursing have additional requirements, and deadlines that can be found here.

The supplemental application for Applied Forensic Psychology can be found here.

1. Upon application, submit your transcripts

• Students from High School in Nova Scotia, provide your Nova Scotia Provincial Student Number (PSN) at the time of application for StFX to access your transcript through My Transcripts.
• Other Canadian, International High School, and Mature Applicants. You will need to request your transcript(s) be submitted to StFX officially by your secondary school by email (PDF format) to admit@stfx.ca or by mail to the Registrar’s Office:

                          Registrar’s Office –Admissions

                           2329 Notre Dame Avenue

                          Antigonish, Nova Scotia B2G 2W5

• If your transcript does not show courses currently in progress, please ensure you email your course list for the full academic year in progress to admit@stfx.ca
• If you are a Mature Student, StFX will require any completed secondary transcripts to review for pre-requisites for desired program applied to. StFX Admissions can support with providing suggestions to obtain program pre-requisites. Please email admit@stfx.ca.

Here are other times we may require your transcript

• If an applicant does not receive on offer of admission upon application, when an updated transcript is available (after first semester of Grade 12 is complete) please have the updated transcript sent to the admissions office.
• If applicants wish to be considered for Major Scholarships, we will require your first semester final transcript by March 1, 2022.
• If you have applied to the 4-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, please continue to send us updated transcripts with final marks only (no interim reports) when they become available until you receive a decision on your application. Common examples would be after first semester of Grade 12 (or most recent grades available if upgrading) up to March 1, 2022.

StFX requires all students accepted to StFX send their final transcript when available.

• This is usually available at the end of June
  • StFX Admissions will review this transcript to ensure applicants have met the conditions of admission (outlined in acceptance letter).
  • If applicants have not met the conditions of their offer, applicants are expected to complete upgrading, StFX Admissions can support with options, please contact admit@stfx.ca.
• Deadline to receive final transcript is August 1, 2022 and this transcript is required to receive StFX scholarships.
• If you are upgrading over the summer months, you need to advise StFX when the final transcript will be available, deadline August 25, 2022.

1. Waiting for an admissions decision
   • StFX Admissions will aim to make an admissions decision on an undergraduate application as soon as possible. If it has been more than 10 business days since you received your “thanks for applying” email with your StFX student number, please forward that email to admit@stfx.ca to ask if there is anything missing from your application to make a decision.
   • If an Admissions Officer contacts you for more information, it is important to respond in a timely manner. Using the same email you applied with, or including any other first or last name/surname included on your application and transcript is helpful!
   • Review Key Dates and Deadlines
   • Keep working hard!
2. Receiving an admissions decision
   • If an Admissions officer contacts you to let you know that we are not able to offer you admission at this time, please know you do not need to apply again and we want to work with you to support admission to StFX! We try to offer direct guidance to what next steps are to work toward admission when your next updated transcript is available.
   • If you receive an offer of admission, please review the offer of admission carefully, this offer is often conditional and requires you to meet the conditions of that offer. Please ensure you read, understand and adhere to those offer conditions.
3. Confirming your acceptance
   • You can confirm your acceptance as soon as you receive your offer of admission. StFX may require one business day before your confirmation is active in our system, please be patient and we will email you a confirmation letter.
   • Once confirmed, you will be provided with the application for Residence at StFX.
   • Students are encouraged to confirm by May 15 to secure their seat in the program, provided they meet their offer conditions. If you are accepted after May 15, you will have 30 days to confirm your seat.
4. Defer my acceptance
   • Students may wish to defer their acceptance, students are required to have paid their confirmation deposit, met their offer conditions, and submitted their final transcript. Please contact admit@stfx.ca for the deferral form.

The University reserves the right to revoke admissions to the university due to unmet conditions. If admission is revoked after registration, course enrolments will be cancelled.

Students accepted before May 15: please confirm by May 15th.

Students accepted after May 15: please confirm within 30 days of the date on the acceptance letter.