This information is for prospective transfer students who have completed some college-level coursework beyond the summer following graduation; including at a California community college, an out-of-state community college, or any 4-year college or university.
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The supplemental requirements for Fall 2025 admission to Architectural Studies, Art, Dance, Design|Media Arts, and World Arts and Cultures are live on SlideRoom.
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You need a minimum 3.0 GPA at the time of the UC application (in November).
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For the most up-to-date information about undergraduate tuition, please visit THIS LINK. There is tuition information based on residency status, as well as estimates for cost of living.
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UCLA does not pre-review transcripts. The only way you can receive reliable information about whether or not your coursework will transfer is if you formally submit the UC application.
If you are attending a California community college, all General Education classes are formally articulated. Your institution will have classes that are IGETC-certified, which means they are guaranteed to transfer to UC/CSU.
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No matter where you are transferring from, you have to take:
English Composition
English Critical Reading and Writing
Math/Quantitative Reasoning (prerequisite of intermediate algebra or higher)
These three classes need to be completed by Spring before you begin Fall quarter, and you need a B average across all three classes.
If you are attending a California community college, review the IGETC coursework for UC transfer at your college. The approved English Composition, Critical Thinking, and Mathematical Concepts and Quantitative Reasoning courses will all be clearly listed.
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The UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture will review all of your arts coursework on an individual basis after you have accepted your admission offer and are registered to attend.
The majority of our transfer students are coming from California community colleges and arts courses vary greatly. Transfers from other 4-year or out-of-state community colleges often transfer here because their current institutions do not offer the coursework they want/need. Because of these dynamics, our transfer students either do not have a lot of arts coursework or have coursework that is not a curricular match with our coursework, so it does not articulate.
When we review supplemental applications, we’re looking for an artistic, creative, and cultural match. It doesn’t matter where you did the work— in a classroom, in community, at home, at your place of employment, etc. It’s common for our transfers to come in with mostly general education credits, and then focus on the coursework in their major when they arrive at UCLA.
A resource that might be useful for you is TRANSFEROLOGY.COM, where you can enter in your current school, your destination school, and the major you are applying to, and the site will show you what coursework has articulated in the past.
Please remember that we look at course articulations for each admitted student on an individual basis. Because a course articulated in the past, doesn’t guarantee it will for you.
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Not a problem! We often receive transfers who are outside of the arts and want to come to UCLA because our majors are a better fit for them, and they might not have had an equivalent major at their current school.
For example:
Earthquake Engineering → Architectural Studies
Pan-African Studies → World Arts and Cultures
Computer Science → Design|Media Arts
Comparative Literature → Art
Kinesiology → Dance
In these cases, you might have more lower division requirements to take when you get to UCLA (and you might have to stay past two years to finish), but not having arts courses at the point of application are not a factor in admission consideration.
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Every college/university handles gap years differently. At UCLA, if you graduate from high school and then take any college credit classes, then you need to apply as a Transfer student. More info at this link.
