UCLA and UC Berkeley GE requirement.

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Hello,I am a transfer student who applied to UCLA and UC Berkeley. I have a 4.0 GPA, and all IGETC will be compled when I graduate this spring at my community college.

When I go to UCLA or UC Berkeley, how many upper-division general education classes will I have to take there?

Also is there a foreign language requirement? For my community college to complete the IGETC, I only had to take 1 semester of language.

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Depends on which division (L&S, Engineering, etc.). For at least some divisions at these campuses (e.g. UCB L&S), IGETC can be considered as fulfilling general education requirements, but not for others (e.g. UCB Engineering).

Examples:

UCB L&S: https://ls.berkeley.edu/advising/degree-requirements (IGETC accepted)
UCB Engineering: https://engineering.berkeley.edu/academics/undergraduate-guide/degree-requirements/humanities-and-social-sciences (IGETC not accepted, but no foreign language requirement, and some humanities and social studies you took at CC may be applied to these requirements)

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One of your other threads suggests that you may be a math major. If so, and you want to continue to PhD study in math, a reading knowledge of French, German, and/or Russian may be helpful.

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Interesting, so if I went to UCB I would have to take no upper-division general education classes.

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Also noticed the mathematics major at UCB requires way less classes than any other UC for math.

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UCB is on the semester system, so 8 courses there would be like 12 courses at most of the other UCs on the quarter system (assuming same credit unit value per course).

UCB requires 8 upper division math courses (typically 32 semester units = 48 quarter units); the quarter system UCs require 10-14 upper division math courses (typically 40-56 quarter units). UCM, the other semester system UC, has an applied math major that requires about 11 upper division courses (about 44 semester units = 66 quarter units), although only 6 of them (about 24 semester units = 36 quarter units) have to be in math.

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Hope I get into UCB fingers crossed.

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TY. Makes sense about the semester to quarter conversion.