<p>Does anyone know anything about the unit cap at SB? I will not finish all the lower division requirements prior to transferring, and am concerned I will need to go over 216 units.</p>
<p>Are you transferring from CCC or a UC or a CSU or . . . ?</p>
<p>For a CCC transfer</p>
<p>*I’m asking for a friend, not myself. I think he will still need to complete 1 lower division physics sequence and 2 lower-division maths.</p>
<p>If you are transferring from a CCC, there is no unit cap. They obviously will not accept all of your units, but they will not turn anyone from a CCC away for having too many units the way they do to 4-year transfers.</p>
<p>^She means the graduation unit cap after you’ve enrolled at a UC. You’re only allowed to accumulate so many units before graduating because they want you to finish within a reasonable amount of time. Typically they expect transfer students to have the majority of or all of their lower division course work completed for their major by the time of transfer and then you have only so many units of leeway between the graduation cap and however many units you started with. If you’re still finishing additional lower division requirements you already use up some of those units and you run the risk of reaching the graduation cap before you finish all of your coursework for graduation. Typically if that happens you can usually petition and I believe if you’re relatively close to finishing your graduation requirements and are in decent academic standing they allow you to finish up.</p>
<p>Actually that information is irrelevant to a community college student. You can transfer to Cal after having taken 200 units at community college, and Cal admissions will choose exactly which of those credits to honor. The point is this: Cal is not going to transfer such a high number of units that you will not be able to finish your coursework without running into the cap. Unit caps are a concern for UC students and UC/4year transfer students. The only way, as a community college student, that you could feasibly transfer to a UC and run into trouble with too many units is if you take two years of electives at the UC after you transfer. When you are admitted, you transfer into your major, and your coursework is set out appropriately. Admissions plans for this when they transfer your CCC credits.</p>
<p>I am not positive about the exact numbers, but I believe the limit for transferring Units from a CCC to a UC is 70 units. Yes, as the above poster stated, you can have more but you will not be able to credit those to your degree at the UC. </p>
<p>After you transfer you are required to complete a minimum number of units within that particular UC if you want to earn your degree from them. Just have your friend call the department they are going to transfer into, and they will be able to give them the information they need. Or check online, I prefer emailing the departments and they always respond (from the UC schools). </p>
<p>Also, go to the department website and look for a link to the Graduation Requirements, that is usually a downloadable PDF and will help with unit management.</p>