Professional degrees

By Rob Taylor

An example of this would be teacher's college. A Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) which is required in Canada if you would like to be a teacher. At some schools, you can do your BA or B.Sc. concurrently, or at the same time as you would do your B.Ed. But most of the time, students finish their undergraduate degree and then apply to do another bachelor's degree in education.

Law school is another variation. Students interested in going to law school may apply through a central application centre, depending on the province in which the school is located. For example, students wanting to go to law school in Ontario apply through the Ontario Law School Application Service (OLSAS). In other provinces, such as Alberta, students apply directly to the school.

Students applying to law school at York University must have completed at least two years at a recognized university (minimum of 60 credit hours of graded course work, but not necessarily a full bachelor degree). There are other requirements including taking the Law School Admission Test (LSAT).

The Richard Ivey School of Business HBA (Honours Business Administration) program at The University of Western Ontario is another example of a program where you are required to "complete two years of study in a program or module of your choice and then attend two years of business school." You can apply for the program straight out of high school, but you would be then given a conditional acceptance and would need to attend Western for two years pursuing a different program or module.

Other business schools, such as the School of Business Administration at Dalhousie University, have more traditional bachelor programs that you apply to directly from high school and masters programs you apply to after finishing your undergraduate degree.