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University of Ottawa Acceptance Rate: What Official Data Shows
The University of Ottawa received 77,605 undergraduate applications for Fall 2025, and 10,638 students enrolled. uOttawa's latest academic profile adds that students entering from Ontario high schools in Fall 2023 averaged 86.8%. It doesn't publish offers, so no acceptance rate can be worked out from these figures. Here's how to read them.
The short answer
- The University of Ottawa received 77,605 undergraduate applications for Fall 2025, and 10,638 students enrolled.
- It doesn't publish offers, so no acceptance rate can be worked out from these figures.
- Applications aren't people: one student can apply to several uOttawa programs.
- Enrolments count students who arrived, not everyone who got an offer.
- Students entering from Ontario high schools in Fall 2023 averaged 86.8%, and 64.7% had an average of 85% or higher.
Reviewed October 1, 2026 · Every figure below comes from uOttawa's Institutional Research and Planning office or its scholarship pages, linked at the end
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Applications and enrolments uOttawa publishes
uOttawa's Institutional Research and Planning office publishes a quick-facts page each year. Its admissions table for Fall 2025 counts applications and enrolments.
| Level | Applications | Enrolments |
|---|---|---|
| Undergraduate | 77,605 | 10,638 |
| Graduate | 9,594 | 1,664 |
uOttawa notes that the undergraduate figures leave out admissions to the Faculty of Medicine and students moving between direct-entry faculties.
Source: University of Ottawa Institutional Research and Planning, 2025 quick facts.
Why those counts don't make an acceptance rate
An acceptance rate is offers divided by applicants, for the same group and year. uOttawa's table doesn't fit that formula. Applications aren't people: one student can apply to several uOttawa programs. And enrolments count students who arrived, not everyone who got an offer.
uOttawa's latest Common University Data Ontario (CUDO) admissions page, for 2022, lists application fees and term options but no applicant or offer counts. So we don't publish a uOttawa acceptance percentage. Enrolments divided by applications would describe who came, not who was admitted.
The average that got students in
The quick-facts academic profile is the most useful planning figure. It covers students who entered uOttawa directly from an Ontario high school, using OUAC data.
| Measure (Fall 2023) | Figure |
|---|---|
| Admission average | 86.8% |
| Students with an admission average of 85% or higher | 64.7% |
So about a third of these students entered with an average under 85%. These figures describe the whole entering class. Your program's own minimum and prerequisites still decide eligibility.
Source: University of Ottawa 2025 quick facts, undergraduate academic profile (Fall 2023).
Where your average earns money
For 2027-2028, the University of Ottawa Admission Scholarship pays eligible full-time students in a direct-entry faculty automatically, by admission average. Mature applicants and university transfers aren't eligible.
| Admission average | Admission Scholarship |
|---|---|
| 95% to 100% | $3,000 |
| 90% to 94.9% | $2,000 |
| 85% to 89.9% | $1,000 |
Source: uOttawa scholarships and awards overview (2027-2028). For prerequisites by program, see the uOttawa admission requirements guide.
Official sources
Each figure on this page links back to the page or report it came from.
- uOttawa Institutional Research and Planning: quick facts
Fall 2025 undergraduate applications (77,605) and enrolments (10,638), and the Fall 2023 academic profile of students entering from Ontario high schools: 86.8% average, 64.7% at 85% or higher.
- uOttawa Common University Data Ontario (CUDO) index
uOttawa's CUDO pages, with 2022 as the latest edition. Earlier editions are no longer public.
- uOttawa CUDO 2022: admission
Lists OUAC application fees, admission in terms other than fall, and deferral by exception. It has no applicant, offer or registrant counts.
- uOttawa scholarships and awards overview
2027-2028 University of Ottawa Admission Scholarship: $3,000 for a 95% to 100% admission average, $2,000 for 90% to 94.9%, $1,000 for 85% to 89.9%.
Frequently asked questions
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