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Transfers: Admission Requirements

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 To be eligible for UC admission, you must complete specific subject and scholarship requirements. Some majors require additional major-specific preparation as well. If you’re not a California resident, you must meet additional non-resident eligibility requirements.
 Transfers: Admission Requirement

Junior-Level Class Standing

You must have completed 60 semester or 90 quarter transferable units by the end of the spring term prior to fall enrollment.

While the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences occasionally considers applications from students with less than junior-level standing, very few lower-division transfers are admitted. All other academic divisions will only consider applications from junior-level transfers.

Major Requirements

Certain majors require you to complete additional coursework and/or earn a higher GPA to be eligible for transfer. These include all majors in the College of Engineering and College of Biological Sciences, as well as the following majors in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and the College of Letters and Science:

Certain majors require that you apply to a pre-major program and complete additional requirements before being admitted into the regular major. These include:

Exploratory and undeclared options are closed to junior-level applicants.

Subject Requirement

These courses, along with any prerequisite courses for your major, must be completed by the end of the spring term before your transfer to UC Davis for fall enrollment.

You must complete UC eligibility requirements in English and math with grades of C or better, which include:

  • two transferable college courses (3 semester or 4-5 quarter units) in English composition
  • one transferable college course (3 semester or 4-5 quarter units) in mathematical concepts or quantitative reasoning

You must also complete four transferable courses with grades of C or better from at least two of the following subject areas:

  • arts and humanities
  • social and behavioral sciences
  • physical and biological sciences

These courses, along with any prerequisite courses for your major, must be completed by the end of the spring term before your fall quarter transfer to UC Davis.

Scholarship Requirement

You must earn at least a 2.40 GPA in your UC-transferable classes to meet UC’s eligibility requirements. However, UC Davis requires a 2.80 GPA to be selected for admission, and many of our most popular programs may require a higher GPA. See our selective major transfer requirements for more details.

Non-Residents of California

Coursework requirements are the same for non-California residents. You must earn a 2.80 GPA or higher to be considered eligible for admission.

If you will require a visa to live or study in the United States, you are considered an international applicant and must follow additional admission procedures for international applicants. You are not considered an international applicant if you are a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, even if you have completed coursework at a school in another country.