<p>I was just curious, does the UC system expect all transfers to graduate in 2 years from arriving to the newly transferred school?</p>
<p>No. For my major (Informatics) I was told that most transfers graduate in 3 years.</p>
<p>You can’t transfer in with 1 year of units . </p>
<p>@staar87 , this depends on your school . Practically it does take more time for most transfers .
BUT UCLA and UCB have great 2 year graduation rates of about 60% , even if you don’t graduate in exactly 2 years , you can still finish in summer , or in summer and an extra quarter .</p>
<p>@thisislife
I understand that you can, and it is possible, to graduate in 2 years as a transfer. The question was are you expected to. For which the blanket answer is no. I gave an example based on my major. I think a good part of the length of time has to do with your major, and how many classes you have that transfer over.</p>
<p>Also, it is rare and difficult, but you can transfer over at a lower division level. It depends on your major and if the campus allows it too. [Minimum</a> admissions requirements | UC Admissions](<a href=“http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/transfer/requirements/minimum-requirements/]Minimum”>http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/transfer/requirements/minimum-requirements/)</p>
<p>Or, with a combination of AP credits and summer classes, you can transfer in one year with Junior standing</p>
<p>I think only Merced and possibly Riverside will even consider lower division transfer applicants</p>
<p>I think OP is talking about junior level transfers who are able to transfer in a year as opposed to the usual 2 or 3 years. In this case, it doesn’t matter since all transfers have junior standing regardless of how long it took one to transfer.</p>
<p>If someone transferred as a junior with only 1 year in college, I assume that means a lot of AP credit. I’ll admit right up front I don’t know the answer to the OP question since what they say is ambiguous. For frosh the rule is clear:
But for transfers they say
So the million dollar question is “what are AP units counted as for xfer students?” If accounted for the same way as frosh, then they are excluded from the cap and min progress requirements. If counted as generic transfer units, then you are on the transfer timeline of the UC you attend. At UCLA they are more strict than most UCs, and its hard to avoid being forced out after a little over 2 more years. See [College</a> Academic Counseling - UCLA College of Letters and Science](<a href=“http://www.ugeducation.ucla.edu/counseling/exp-cum-prog.html]College”>http://www.ugeducation.ucla.edu/counseling/exp-cum-prog.html)</p>
<p>I think the OP should make an appt with a counselor at UCLA and get a definitive answer. Personally I wouldn’t trust one of the orientation advisers or peer advisers to be correct on this unless they can show you something in writing. They are just juniors and seniors working a part-time job.</p>
<p>I think you guys are mistaken. He’s talking after you transfer, does the new school expect you to take two years. I know for a fact that UC Berkeley wants you out in two.</p>
<p>I’m not a lower division transfer. I’m a junior transfer that was able to transfer in 1 year with a good amount of AP credits. Since I have only spent 1 year in college (and was able to only take 3 quarters of college course work), I feel it would be highly unfair for them to force me to finish in 2 years since I still have to go through a lot more medical school pre-requisites along with the MCAT…on top of my major requirements.</p>
<p>My question was do they still expect me to graduate in 2 years?</p>
<p>@Mike Yeah, ill hit up UCLA about this.</p>
<p>With the exception of Berkeley, none of the UC’s expect nor require you to finish in two years. In fact, there really are no temporal constraints at any of the UCs that force you to finish in any amount of time. What the majority of UC’s have is a unit limit that you can’t exceed. Once you exceed that limit you aren’t allowed to enroll in any more classes. In addition, you’re required to maintain full time enrollment which for the quarter based schools is 12 units/qtr or 36 units/year. Those things coupled together give you some form of temporal constraint, which is usually around 3 years for a transfer student. </p>
<p>As an example, to make this more concrete, UCLA has a unit ceiling of 216 units. Once you’ve accumulated 216 units as a student, even if you haven’t received your degree, you can’t enroll in any more classes. So you’re not kicked out, per se, but obviously you would effectively probably have to go somewhere else or just continue paying tuition with no hope of making progress to your degree, your choice. If you come in as a transfer with 90 quarter units you have 126 units until you meet that limit. Considering you have to be enrolled in 36 units minimum per year that time constraint is 3.5 years for UCLA. At UCSD the limit is 200 units and thusly the time constraint is a little less around 3 years. If you transfer more than 90 units, the maximum is 105 transferable units, then you effectively shorten that amount of slightly. It would be around 3 years to UCLA and 2.5 to UCSD. Those are the UC’s I’m familiar with, so you’d have to check the other’s unit limits to see approximately how long you’d be able to stay at that UC and still enroll in courses. </p>
<p>For Berkeley, they do expect you to graduate in 4 semesters as a transfer student. So at Berkeley you do have a concrete time constraint to abide to. That said, it does seem as if they also have a unit limit that you can apply if you don’t graduate in 4 semesters, but their website is a bit ambiguous regarding that.</p>
<p>Just to quickly follow up on this, at Berkeley the expectation is that you graduate in 4 semesters completing 15 units each semester and 30 in the year. However, their unit limit appears to be 130 semester units and minimum progress is only 13 units per semester or 26 per year. Effectively, coming in with the minimum 60 units as a junior transfer and taking the absolute minimum number of units each semester you could stretch that 130 units to 5 semesters (2.5 years) instead of 4 semesters (2 years). </p>
<p>So in summary, there are no time constraints at the UC’s. What determines your duration of enrollment at the UC’s is their unit limit and how many units you take per term until you reach it.</p>
<p>There are of course time constraints at UC schools. Hey unit limit plus minimum progress ends up defining an implicit time limit.
Actually the UCLA minimum progress is more then you say. Referring to the chart on the link I gave earlier, You can see that UCLA expects you to earn 96 units in the two years after you transfer. So that is 48 units per year, not 36. Furthermore they have a check every two quarters to make sure you’re on track to earn the required amount. You will be at 180 units after two years as a transfer. You might be able to stretch a third year and still fit under the 216 unit cap, but that’s only if they let you enroll as a part-time student your last quarter</p>
<p>@HeatZz And if you stayed an extra year and finished every single pre-req , would you be able to finish in 2 years at a UC ? </p>
<p>It’s not a race and you’ll save a ton of money by getting your requirements done at CC .</p>