How to Get Into U of T From Morocco: Bac, OUAC 105, Video

What U of T looks at from a Moroccan applicant

U of T’s high school requirements by country list (Morocco is on the fourth page) gives the minimum admission requirement for Morocco as the “Baccalauréat”, with no further note. The general rule on U of T’s international high schools page is that admission is based on your academic record in the curriculum you are completing, that every applicant must present senior-level English and the prerequisites for the program, and that requirements vary by program. That is the whole published position: U of T does not print a minimum moyenne for the Moroccan bac.

What U of T reads is your Baccalauréat de l’enseignement secondaire as a set of subjects with marks out of 20, across the two bac years. When it decides, usually between January and May, it has the 1ère année bac results, the regional exam, and whatever 2ème année marks your lycée has issued; the national exam (half of your final moyenne générale) confirms the offer in June. Every filière is accepted, from Sciences Mathématiques A and B through Sciences Physiques, SVT and Sciences Économiques to Lettres; what differs is which faculties your subjects open. The Bac international option français or anglais (BIOF, BIOA) is the same credential with the same exams. Students at a mission-française lycée present the French bac instead, listed under France on the same page with a note that Anglais must be completed in the final year.

The grades that get offers, by faculty

U of T publishes prerequisites, not cut-offs, so the useful reading of your relevé is: does the filière carry the subjects, and is the moyenne in those subjects high, not just the overall. The prerequisites below are U of T’s standard ones expressed for the Moroccan bac; the program pages on future.utoronto.ca list them and you should check the one you are applying to.

The Anglais course on a Moroccan relevé is the senior-level English prerequisite; it does not replace the proficiency test below. A Sciences Économiques student has the maths for Rotman and UTSC Management but not the physics for Engineering; a Lettres student is an Arts applicant. U of T does not publish where the Moroccan bac lands on its scale. Engineering, Computer Science and Rotman fill from the top of every country’s pool, and a moyenne in the 14s is an Arts file, not a Rotman one.

English: not waived for the Moroccan bac

U of T’s English language requirements page exempts only students with four or more years of full-time study in a Canadian English-language school, or in an English-language school in a country where English is the dominant language. An English-medium school in Morocco, the BIOA option or a high Anglais mark does not qualify. Minimums, which must arrive by the document deadline for your program:

• IELTS Academic: 6.5 overall, no band below 6.0.
• TOEFL iBT: tests from January 21, 2026 use the 6-point scale, 4.5 overall with 4.5 in Writing and 4.0 in Speaking; older tests, 89 total with 22 in Writing and Speaking.
• Duolingo English Test: 120 overall with 120 in Production.
• CAEL: 70 overall, no part below 60. PTE Academic: 65 overall, no part below 60. Cambridge C1/C2: 180 overall, 170 in each component.

Because Engineering’s document deadline is January 15, an Engineering applicant needs the test sat by December. Everyone else has until February 1. Request the exemption or upload the score through the Join U of T portal after you apply.

How and when to apply for Fall 2027 entry

International applicants use the OUAC 105 application (the Ontario Universities’ Application Centre form for anyone not in an Ontario high school) or the U of T International Application; the OUAC 105 walkthrough is written for BC students but the form is the same one you will fill. From U of T’s dates and deadlines page for 2027 admission, confirm each before you plan around it:

• November 7, 2026: recommended early application date for Engineering, Arts & Science, UTM and UTSC; students who apply by then and finish the portal steps by December 2 are read in the first round and every later one.
• January 15, 2027: application deadline for those faculties, and the Engineering document and Online Student Profile deadline.
• February 1, 2027: documents for Arts & Science (including Rotman), UTM and UTSC; the Rotman, Computer Science and UTSC supplementary applications.
• January to late May 2027: decisions in rounds; accept by the date in your offer letter and pay the deposit.

Documents: U of T’s required documents page says to wait for the Join U of T or Engineering Applicant Portal checklist before sending anything, to upload transcripts and self-report grades there, and that “if your documents are in a language other than English or French, you will also need to provide notarized translations.” A French-language relevé needs none; an Arabic-only attestation does. Official transcripts from the lycée are required to finalise an offer, so ask for the stamped final relevé and bac attestation the day results are out.

The supplementals: the part you control

Most of U of T has none. U of T’s supplemental applications page lists the programs that do: all Engineering programs (the Online Student Profile), Rotman Commerce, Computer Science, UTSC Management, Architecture, Kinesiology and Music. If you are applying to Arts & Science humanities, social sciences or life sciences, your file is the relevé and the English score, and the best use of your time is the Anglais and Maths marks in first semester.

For Rotman and Engineering the supplemental includes a timed video: you see a question, get a short preparation window, then record an answer of about a minute against a hard clock, with no retakes. U of T does not publish the questions. The Rotman Commerce supplemental application questions guide and the Engineering Online Student Profile questions guide describe the formats and the kinds of prompts, and the UTSC Management supplementary application guide covers the written form. For a Moroccan student the challenge is speaking English spontaneously to a camera, after years of being examined in French and Arabic, and that is built under the clock, not by writing scripts. AcceptMe puts you on camera with a fresh question, 30 seconds to think, 90 seconds to answer, then hands you a transcript with the coach’s notes, so you can hear the filler and the French sentence structure and fix them before the real one.

Money: tuition, the Pearson scholarship, proof of funds

U of T’s fees page points to the Planning and Budget Office schedules; the 2026-27 schedule (published March 2026) lists international tuition for students entering in 2026 and a planned figure for 2027 entrants, which is the one to budget on but which the Governing Council can still change:

Rotman Commerce and Computer Science pay the general Arts & Science fee in first year and a higher fee from second year (C$78,160 in 2026-27 for continuing Commerce students). Add incidental fees, UHIP health insurance and Toronto rent.

The one full-cost award is the Lester B. Pearson International Scholarship: tuition, books, fees and residence for four years, about 37 scholars a year worldwide, and it runs early. For September 2027 entry, your lycée must nominate you by October 9, 2026 (schools new to the program must register by then), you must have submitted your U of T application by October 16, 2026, and the scholarship application is due November 6, 2026. U of T says use of generative AI in the application disqualifies it. Beyond Pearson, U of T’s awards profile covers entrance awards that are considered automatically on admission.

For the permit, IRCC’s financial support page requires a single applicant outside Quebec to show C$23,448 for a year of living costs for applications from September 1, 2026, on top of first-year tuition and travel, with statements that show where the money came from.

The study permit

Ontario’s share of the 2026 study permit cap is 104,780 spaces per IRCC’s allocation notice, and the government has said it wants the temporary-resident share of the population lower still by the end of 2027. An undergraduate needs a Provincial Attestation Letter from Ontario, issued through U of T after you accept and pay the deposit; IRCC’s attestation letter page explains it. The Student Direct Stream, which Morocco was part of, closed in November 2024; there is no fast track now, and you apply through the regular stream with the letter of acceptance, the PAL, passport, proof of funds and biometrics. Apply the week the PAL arrives, on the conditional offer; IRCC does not need your national exam result, U of T does.

A worked timed-video answer

Timing note: read aloud at a normal pace this is about 75 seconds, which leaves room to breathe and finish before the cut-off. The video interview answer length guide explains why stopping at 75 beats running to 90.

Mistakes Moroccan applicants make

• Treating the Anglais mark as the English requirement. It satisfies the prerequisite; the proficiency test is separate and due with your documents.
• Missing that Engineering’s deadlines are January 15 for everything. Application, documents and Online Student Profile all land the same day; a test sat in January is too late.
• Reading the video from a script. The clock is designed to catch it. Practice on camera until you can answer a question you have never seen.
• Sending documents before the portal asks. U of T says wait for the checklist; unsolicited paper is not reviewed.
• Budgeting on the first-year Rotman fee. Years two to four are higher. Read Table D2 in the fee schedule.
• Starting the permit after the national exam. Accept, pay, get the PAL, apply. The June relevé goes to U of T afterwards.

Where to go next

The UBC admission guide for Moroccan applicants covers the Personal Profile, the written piece UBC reads from everyone, and the McGill admission guide for Moroccan applicants explains the grades-only decision and the Quebec-Morocco tuition agreement. If you are also applying to other Ontario programs with supplements, the Ontario supplementary applications hub indexes them, and the by-country guide to Canadian university admissions for international applicants puts Morocco next to the other countries these three schools admit from. Then get on camera with AcceptMe, answer a question you have not seen, and read the transcript back before the real one.