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Major requirements for the College of Letters and Science

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Students applying for transfer admission to selective majors must meet additional course and GPA requirements. All courses must be taken for a letter grade with no grade less than C. All major preparatory course requirements must be completed by the end of spring term before fall enrollment.

Some majors in the College of Letters and Science have additional transfer requirements:

Students are expected to take courses comparable to the ٺƵ course requirements as long as they are offered at the California community college (CCC) they attend. When the indicates “no comparable course” or “not articulated,” the selective major course requirement will be waived for ٺƵ admission/TAG, but must be completed after enrolling at ٺƵ. You can find CCC courses that are comparable to UC Davis courses using the ASSIST website.

TIP: Learn more about Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) credit and how the ASSIST website can help you.

To be well prepared, it is strongly recommended that students complete all lower-division coursework requirements for their major, as shown on the .

Preparation for specific majors

Applied Mathematics

Requirements in addition to general admission requirements and TAG requirements:

  • Complete the following courses and maintain a 3.00 GPA in the entire group of courses:
    • Mathematics 21A/B/C/D
    • Mathematics 22A or Mathematics 27A or Mathematics 67
    • Mathematics 22B or Mathematics 27B

Applied Physics

Requirements in addition to general admission requirements and TAG requirements:

  • Complete the following courses and maintain a 3.00 GPA in the entire group of courses:   
    • Physics 9A/B/C/D OR Physics 9HA/HB/HC/HD/HE
    • Mathematics 21A/B/C/D
    • Mathematics 22A/B

Data Science

Requirements in addition to general admission requirements:

  • Complete the following courses and maintain a 3.20 GPA in the entire group of courses:
    • Engineering Computer Science 032A, 032B
    • Mathematics 021A, 021B, 021C
    • Mathematics 022A
    • Statistics 013 or 035A

Data Science in the College of Letters and Science is closed to TAG. All students interested in applying to the Data Science major must apply for the regular fall transfer UC application in November.

Economics

Requirements in addition to general admission requirements and TAG requirements:

  • Complete the following courses and maintain a 2.50 GPA in the entire group of courses:
    • Mathematics 16A/B or Mathematics 17A/B or Mathematics 19A/B or Mathematics 21A/B
    • Economics 1A/B

Additional Recommendations:

  • Statistics 13 

Mathematics

Requirements in addition to general admission requirements and TAG requirements:

  • Complete the following courses and maintain a 3.00 GPA in the entire group of courses:
    • Mathematics 21A/B/C/D
    • Mathematics 22A or Mathematics 27A or Mathematics 67
    • Mathematics 22B or Mathematics 27B

Mathematical Analytics and Operations Research

Requirements in addition to general admission requirements and TAG requirements:

  • Complete the following courses and maintain a 3.00 GPA in the entire group of courses:
    • Mathematics 21A/B/C/D
    • Mathematics 22A OR Mathematics 67
    • Mathematics 22B

Mathematical and Scientific Computation

Requirements in addition to general admission requirements and TAG requirements:

  • Complete the following courses and maintain a 3.00 GPA in the entire group of courses:
    • Mathematics 21A/B/C/D
    • Mathematics 22A or Mathematics 27A or Mathematics 67
    • Mathematics 22B or Mathematics 27B

Physics

Requirements in addition to general admission requirements and TAG requirements:

  • Complete the following courses and maintain a 3.00 GPA in the entire group of courses:   
    • Physics 9A/B/C/D or Physics 9HA/HB/HC/HD/HE
    • Mathematics 21A/B/C/D
    • Mathematics 22A/B

Psychology

Requirements in addition to general admission requirements and TAG requirements:

  • Complete the following courses and maintain a 2.90 GPA in the entire group of courses:
    • Psychology 1
    • Statistics 13
    • Biological Science 2A 
      or
    • Biological Science 10 AND one of the following courses:
      • Anthropology 1
      • Molecular and Cellular Biology 10
      • Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior 10

NOTE: BS Biological emphasis seeking students MUST take Biological Science 2A

Statistics

Starting fall 2026 Statistics will become a selective major.
Requirements in addition to general admission requirements and TAG requirements:

  • Complete the following courses and maintain a 3.00 GPA in the entire group of courses: 
    • MAT 16ABC or MAT 17ABC or MAT 21ABC 
      • Note: The Statistics major has four tracks: Applied, General, ML and SDS. Students pursuing the General, ML or SDS tracks are required to take the MAT 21 series.
    • MAT 22A 
    • STA 13 or 32 or 100 

Additional Recommendations:

  • MAT 21 series is recommended for Applied track. 
  • Students pursuing the General, ML or SDS tracks are strongly recommended to take MAT 21D pre-matriculation.
  • ECS 32A or ECS 36A are recommended to take pre-matriculation for all tracks.

Additional tips

Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate credit

Visit our or exam articulation charts to find out whether your scores:

  • Earn UC transferable course credit.
  • Satisfy one UC-E (English), one UC-M (math) or another requirement of the .
  • Meet selective major requirements specific to UC.
ASSIST

Visit the to identify which courses at your CCC:

  • Earn UC transferable course credit.
  • Satisfy the UC-E (English), UC-M (math) and other requirements of the .
  • Meet selective major requirements specific to ٺƵ.

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