UCLA: Double Majoring and 216 Unit Cap

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<p>I have personally gone to talk to an EECS adviser/counselor at Berkeley, and she told me that transfers are required to graduate within 2 academic years (4 semesters). You can petition for more time (1 more semester) but that's a tough one.</p>

<p>UCLA engineering also has a cap, but from what I hear, it's not as strict. It was mentioned in the UCLA forum. [url=<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-los-angeles/155712-ask-flopsy-ucla-engineering-131.html?highlight=unit#post1060184401%5DHere%5B/url"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-los-angeles/155712-ask-flopsy-ucla-engineering-131.html?highlight=unit#post1060184401]Here[/url&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p>

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<p>okay this is confusing!this is UCLA!
im in letter and science and going to do a "single major" not "double" is it still 216unit for the unit cap? or less? if I do double major what is the unit cap?</p>

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<p>jesus, do your research</p>

<p>Maximum</a> Units
Double</a> Major</p>

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<p>samus- thank you!</p>

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<p>It's 216 for UCLA.</p>

<p>Cal doesn't have unit cap but rather have a "time cap". They want you out in two years or they'll give you very hard time.</p>

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<p>My answer pertains only to UCLA and only to College of L&S</p>

<p>You need min of 180 to graduate
Max of 216 to graduate including if you are doing a double major</p>

<p>Double majors can have two upper div classes that overlap
You do not get any CC credit once you go over 105 units- meaning you can continue to take units at a CC in the summer for example or if you get approval for concurrent enrollment and not have those units count toward that 216 max</p>

<p>You can also take units at another 4 year university, but, that yahoo answers thing is not accurate. If you take more than 10 units at another university after you took your units at UCLA you will not be allowed to graduate. UCLA's residency requirement is "Out of the last 45 units 35 must be taken in residence at UCLA" (this can not include extension units either) - summer session units are fine and DO count as part of your units.</p>

<p>However, that unit cap is somewhat deceptive. If you can graduate within 2 years and 2 summers they WILL approve any overage you may want to have. Same as they approve those overages for 4 year students. I knew someone that graduated with close to 260 quarter units- double major and double minor-this person had no problem getting approval because they were done in 4 years plus that summer after graduating.</p>

<p>Also during orientation you will be told that as long as you can complete your work in that timespan of 2 years upon starting (plus summers) they do not care how many units you take, if you want to take 50000 units go for it. </p>

<p>So in essence UCLA has a unit cap in order to have a time cap- but you can take as many units as you want within that time frame and you can exceed 216- however if you want to go over 216 and stay at UCLA for 15 years that will not happen.</p>