Acadia University Courses and Fees 2025

• It was easy for me and I think people do not find it difficult because you take courses of your choice.
• Positive aspect: The General biology program makes a lot of choices available. I did courses related to biochemistry, virology, fungal biology, and bacterial biology, and there is so much more. Biology offers 7 specialisations, including ecology and plant biology, out of which you can take 3-4.
• Negative aspect: There were some courses that I wanted to take but were only available in German. And seminars and practical courses can be hard to get into due to the limited number of participants.
• Generally there are not more than one or two classes in a day if you are doing 30 theoretical credits. Classes can start as early as 8am. And I think the latest class that I did lasted till 6pm. However, a German language course can start at 8pm and last up to 10pm. Also, when you do research internships, usually you give whole days for 6 weeks.
• In Biology program in our batch there were maybe around 50 or 60 students and 25-30 were Indians.

• For our batch it was only 85 euros per semester; now it is 3000 euros or something per semester.
• ~1000 euros is enough if you have rent of <=500 euros. health insurance is 145 euros per month, deutschland ticket for students is ~40 euros, and this covers all the public transport, buses, trams and trains. Groceries can be 100 euros, but it can be more if you want to eat more indian food (as indian groceries are expensive) or if you have a very specific diet, for example, too many fruits or too many vegetables. I eat more milk, eggs, bread, tortillas, frozen fish, chicken, etc., so on bad months (more expense here and there) I still can get by on 100 euros or less of groceries. And then going out with friends can cost 15 euros or more, so I always keep some aside for that, but I was never able to save anything in these 1000-1200 euros. And then you might have to buy toiletries or kitchen stuff, which is an irregular expense, but for example, surf costs ~15 euros or so, so it can destroy your budget for that month.

• I would say that mine is a research based course so the difficulty is based on the research. Mix of both practical and theoretical, more practical focused.
• Positive aspects would be in research its completely based on my competence and effort, so I get lots of freedom and help from my professor.
• I have to take only few courses so my coursework for 2 semesters would be two 1.5 hour classes each week per course.
• I am a graduate student so I only interact with my professor and her students (4 of us)
• No indian students

• The total course fees is 13,747 CAD per year and around 3,200 CAD for every co op term. Hostel was very expensive because the meal plan was compulsory. I took the cheapest option and the cost was 5,700 CAD per term!
• Semester-wise, the course fees increase a bit.
• Now I stay off campus and my rent is 700 CAD with groceries at 300 CAD monthly. 

I think the course curriculum is very well put together for the nutrition classes. However, I do think the amount of chemistry is a lot because it almost overpowers the nutrition courses. It is also very good because of the many options you can take for a major.

The fees are quite extensive. We are one of the highest charging universities in the Maritimes. There are also residences fees and meal plans on top of that. Tuition is often raised for no reason and random fees are added.