BusinessDegree program✓ Listed officially

Accounting and Financial Management

at University of Waterloo · Waterloo, Ontario · On the official programs page ↗

B+

Program score

Data transparencyStrong

How well this program's existence and the school's data are sourced. 79/100

Value scoreB-

Quality adjusted for the school's cost. 64/100 · see how University of Waterloo compares

Admission

Unverified · official page ↗

Not publishedNo published average

The school doesn't publish an admission average for this program, and we don't estimate one. Competitive years run high; confirm on the program's own admissions page.

Prerequisites: Six Grade 12 U/M courses including any Grade 12 U English (min 75%), Advanced Functions (min 75%), Calculus and Vectors (min 75%). Recommended: Principles of Financial Accounting, Mathematics of Data Management.
Supplementary requirements: Page does not state an AIF/supplementary application requirement for AFM. Co-op only.

Admission to Accounting and Financial Management depends on more than grades. Confirm current requirements on the official program page.

How this program ranks

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Among Canadian universities offering Business, Accounting and Financial Management at University of Waterloo ranks #76 of 182 on our program score: verified school-wide outcomes (40%), recognized strength in Business (25%), data transparency (20%) and value (15%). Here's exactly how its 80/100 was reached:

How we calculated this 80/100: the real numbers80/100

Verified school-wide outcomes 40% · recognized strength in Business 25% · data transparency 20% · value 15%.

Verified school-wide outcomes
89/100: University of Waterloo's verified outcome score, inherited (no fabricated per-program number)
× 40% → 35 pts
35 pts
Recognised strength in Business
55/100: Business is offered but not a flagged strength (floors at 55)
× 25% → 14 pts
14 pts
Program data transparency
79/100: this program's transparency score (below)
× 20% → 16 pts
16 pts
Value
64/100: quality adjusted for University of Waterloo's cost
× 15% → 10 pts
10 pts

+5 pts: paid co-op, which genuinely differentiates Business programs.

Program score80/100

We don't yet publish verified program-LEVEL outcomes, so this program inherits its school's verified figures, labelled as such: never a per-program number we can't source.

Compared with other Business programs

1
AccountingUniversity of British Columbia
A+
2
Business and Computer ScienceUniversity of British Columbia
A+
3
Business Technology ManagementUniversity of British Columbia
A+
4
EntrepreneurshipUniversity of British Columbia
A+
5
FinanceUniversity of British Columbia
A+

Transparency

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The one program-level signal we can verify today is whether this program is listed on University of Waterloo's official programs page. The rest is University of Waterloo's own data transparency, inherited and labelled; we don't yet have verified per-program stats.

Program listed on the school's official programs pageThis program

Existence confirmed on uwaterloo.ca

source ↗1/1

Publishes student outcomesSchool-level

3 of 3 outcome metrics sourced · 2 via official government dataset

source ↗2/2

Keeps published data currentSchool-level

latest figure as of 2023

source ↗1/2

Sources its competitive entry averageSchool-level

publishes no admitted average. Our entering grade is an editorial estimate, not sourced

0/1

Backs facts with verified official linksSchool-level

2 verified source links

source ↗2/2

How we calculated this 79/100: the real numbers79/100

30% (listed on the school's official programs page) + 70% (the school's own data-transparency score).

Program listed on an official pageThis program
Yes: existence confirmed on the school's official programs page (1/1)
× 30% → 30 pts
30 pts
Existence confirmed on uwaterloo.ca
Sourceofficial source ↗
University of Waterloo's data-transparency scoreSchool-level
70/100: the school's own rubric (shown on its profile)
× 70% → 49 pts
49 pts

Program transparency79/100

The one genuinely program-level signal we can verify today is whether the program is listed officially. The rest is the school's transparency, inherited and labelled.

Outcomes (school-wide)

Compare on graduate employment

We don't yet publish program-level outcomes, so Accounting and Financial Management inherits University of Waterloo's verified school-wide figures. These are what feed its program score, never a per-program number we can't source.

Graduation rate

83.5%

Graduate employment

96.3%

First-year retention

94.1%

How we calculated this 89/100: the real numbers89/100

Each verified outcome is scored 0-100 against the range its peers actually publish, then blended by weight.

First-year retention
94.1%: first-year retention
scaled within the 80-95% range across the 16 peers that publish it → 94/100, weighted 30%
28 pts
“Percentage of full-time, first year students … who continued their studies the next fall. 2023: Waterloo 94.1%”
Extracted fromUniversity of Waterloo, Institutional Analysis & Planning (Performance Indicators) ↗· as of 2023
Graduation rate
83.5%: graduation rate
scaled within the 62.3-90% range across the 20 peers that publish it → 77/100, weighted 35%
27 pts
“OUGS all-institutions table — Waterloo 0.80% 83.50% 87.10% 96.30% — Graduation Rate 83.5%”
Extracted fromGovernment of Ontario · dataset ↗· as of 2022-23
Graduate employment
96.3%: graduate employment
scaled within the 86-96.7% range across the 14 peers that publish it → 96/100, weighted 35%
34 pts
“OUGS all-institutions table — Waterloo 0.80% 83.50% 87.10% 96.30% — Graduate Employment Rate (2 Years) 96.3%”
Extracted fromGovernment of Ontario · dataset ↗· as of 2022-23

Outcome score89/100

All 3 outcome metrics are verified to an official source.

Program facts

Field: Business
Credential: Degree program
School: University of Waterloo
Domestic tuition: $7,400/yr
Avg. entering grade: ~90% est.
Existence: uwaterloo.ca ↗

Per-program stats are honestly Unverified until a program-level figure is sourced. Data as of June 2026.

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