Overview

Explore the complex interplay between science, socioeconomic factors and public opinion in the forging of public policy decisions and the value of interdisciplinary approaches to complex problems in wildlife biology.

Take your studies beyond the classroom through world-renowned research facilities on campus, including the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Hagen Aqualab and Phytotron greenhouses, and in the field, including at the Wildlife Research Station in Algonquin Provincial Park, Churchill Northern Studies Centre in Manitoba and the university’s very own Arboretum.

Why Wildlife Biology and Conservation?

Building on the University of Guelph’s long-standing reputation in the areas of biology and natural resource management, Wildlife Biology and Conservation is currently the only major in Canada that explicitly integrates ecology, evolution, and conservation into a four-year major.

This major empowers you to explore the relationship between ecosystems and organisms, from the molecular level to populations, as well as ways to conserve species through natural system management and interdisciplinary approaches of ecology, evolution and conservation.

After building a foundation in the biological sciences, you’ll have the flexibility in your upper years to focus your courses on some or all of the program’s three themes: ecology, evolution and conservation. In your fourth year, you’ll take a capstone course, which allows you to ask and test a research problem of interest to you.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Vertebrate Structure & Function

Comparative Animal Physiology

Lab Studies in Animal Physiology

Integrative Biology of Invertebrates

Animal Behaviour

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-05 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-03-01 00:00:00

Language

English

IELTS

6.5

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Credits

120 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Guelph, Canada

Disciplines

Biology Biodiversity & Conservation Animal Science View 21 other Bachelors in Biodiversity & Conservation in Canada

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Academic requirements

GPA

English requirements

IELTS

6.5

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Other requirements

General requirements

The secondary school graduation certificate which would admit a student to an internationally recognized university in their home country is normally acceptable for admission to the University of Guelph.

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Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
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Tuition Fee

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International

37182 CAD/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 37182 CAD per year during 48 months.
National

8779 CAD/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 8779 CAD per year during 48 months.

Local: $7819

Living costs for Guelph

1157 - 1804 CAD /month

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