Business and Economics Grade Requirements

We are now accepting applications from first-year BBA and Economics students seeking admission to co-op in fall 2023. You must be enrolled full-time in second year as of September.

The deadline to apply is September 1, 2023, but we recommend that you apply earlier. 

Co-op Admission Interview 

Candidates compete for admission to Business and Economics co-op. We choose candidates based on a co-op admission interview. 

To be eligible for an admission interview, your overall first-year GPA must meet the minimum we announce in July.

You must achieve the overall GPA requirement by the application deadline to be granted an interview.

Learn more about the admission interview process.

GPA Information

Your minimum overall GPA includes all the courses you completed at Laurier in the fall and winter terms of your first year.

The minimum overall first-year GPA required for students applying for admission to Business and Economics co-op in 2022 was 9.0 out of 12.  

The actual average GPA of all students admitted to Business and Economics co-op in 2022 was 10.3.

Although we will also consider courses taken after the winter term, we give more credit for academic achievement to students who achieved the minimum GPA cut-off by the end of the winter term.

We will not consider marks we receive after the deadline. Before taking courses through another school, check whether they will provide you with marks by our deadline.

Course and Credit Requirements

You must complete five full credit courses (ten half-credit courses) by April of your first year. 

(Economics students: Although the Economics Department does not require you to complete five full credits by the end of first year, you must complete five full credits to be considered for admission to co-op.)

If you complete fewer than five full credits by April, you must have completed at least ten half-credit courses by the end of the Spring/Summer term. Please note that we will consider only:

• courses you repeated
• courses required for progression to second year
• courses needed to meet co-op requirements for completing five full credits during first year.

You must meet the requirements for progression to second year by the end of the spring/summer term.

If you complete more than 7.5 credits, you are not eligible for co-op as you are too far along in your studies.

Courses Graded as Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

When calculating your GPA, we will include only those courses for which we see a numeric grade. We will exclude grades from courses such as UU150 that provide only a grade of either satisfactory or unsatisfactory.

We will, however, include courses graded as "satisfactory" when counting the number of courses you have completed.

We may give you slightly less credit for your marks than we give students who provided numeric grades for all ten half-credits.

Note: If you completed UU150 when it still provided numeric grades, we will include your grade when calculating your GPA.

Credit (CR) Option Courses

If you attended Laurier before spring 2022 and converted any grades to credit (CR), we will not include the CR grade when calculating your grade point average (GPA). We will, however, include CR courses when counting the number of courses you have completed.

Didn't Meet the GPA Requirements?

We will grant admission interviews only to students who achieved the minimum GPA required by the application deadline.

If, however, you fail to meet the minimum GPA and petition the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics to reconsider any of your grades, please let us know your new grades as soon as possible. Please submit your petition to the Lazaridis School by Sept. 15, so the petitions committee can make a decision by November 1. We will not consider requests we receive after November 1.

If after your petition, you meet the minimum GPA, we will offer you an admission interview, and will make decisions very soon after. To be eligible, you must also have met the application deadline.

Note: To have a grade reassessed, you must have evidence that an error was made. Follow the grade reassessment protocols outlined in the calendar. To pursue a review of your grades for courses through the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, complete the Grade Appeal Request.

ENTR 100

BBA students are not permitted to take ENTR100.

Economics students may take ENTR100, but may not hold credit for both BU121 and ENTR100. 

• If you are an Economics student and take both ENTR100 and BBA 121, we will not include your mark in ENTR100 when considering your eligibility for admission to co-op. (We will not include the course  in your credit count and we will not include the mark when calculating your GPA.)

ENTR 310

ENTR 310 is an elective for BBA students that may be applied only to BBA program requirements for Year 3 or Year 4.

If you take the course in first year, we will not include your grade when calculating your grade point average, and we will not count it as one of the five credits you need to be eligible for admission to co-op.

(If you intend to take ENTR 310 after being admitted to co-op, please refer to the admission conditions for additional information.)