California community colleges · Transfer to UC and Cal State · 2021 to Fall 2025
Every California Community College's Record at UC and Cal State
Every college, every campus
Click a college for its full record. The share of each community college's transfer applicants that each UC campus admitted. Search for a college or pick a county, and click a column to sort. Grey rows sent fewer than 100 applicants to UC in the period, so read their rates loosely.
Transfer admit rate by campus
Admit rate = transfer students admitted to that campus ÷ students from the college who applied to it. "Any UC" is students admitted to at least one campus ÷ students who applied to at least one. UC hides admit counts under 3; where a campus-year shows applicants but a hidden admit count, it is counted as 1 admit (the middle of 0–2). "—" means fewer than 20 applicants in the period, too few to quote a rate. Years 2021–22 through 2024–25 are full academic years (fall, winter and spring entry); Fall 2025 is fall entry only, which is nearly all transfers.
Every college at Cal State
The same question for the California State University: the share of each college's transfer applicants that each Cal State admitted, fall entry. Most Cal States admit most community-college applicants; these are the ones that don't. The search and county above apply here too.
Cal State transfer admit rate by campus
Admit rate = transfer students admitted to that campus ÷ students from the college who applied to it, for fall entry. "Any CSU" counts each student once however many Cal States they applied to. CSU hides any group under 10; a hidden admit count beside a shown applicant count is counted as 5 (marked ≈ on hover). "—" means fewer than 20 applicants. CSU counts every application filed, including ones later withdrawn or left incomplete, so its rates read a little lower than a campus's own. Source: the California State University, "Applications, Admissions, and Enrollment" dashboard, undergraduate transfers by institution of origin.
What GPA got transfer students in
UC publishes the average transfer GPA of the students it admitted from each community college, campus by campus. It is the middle of who got in, not a cutoff, and it moves with the majors a college's students apply to: a college that sends many engineering and computer science applicants will show a higher bar.
Average transfer GPA of admitted students, 2021–22 to 2024–25
UC's own averages of the UC-transferable GPA, pooled across the four full years by weighting each year's average by that year's admits. UC does not publish an average for fewer than 5 students. "Applied" is the average GPA of all the college's UC applicants. Sorted by applicants; click a column to re-sort.
Look up one college, year by year
Each cell: admitted / applied, and the average GPA of admitted students where UC publishes one (5 or more admits). A blank means UC withheld the figure: fewer than 5 applicants, or fewer than 3 admits. Fall 2025 is fall entry only.
Why the same campus treats colleges so differently
Six campuses guarantee admission. Three don't.
UC Davis, Irvine, Merced, Riverside, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz offer a Transfer Admission Guarantee (TAG): a student who files the TAG in the fall before applying and meets that campus's GPA and course requirements for the major is guaranteed admission. Berkeley, UCLA and UC San Diego do not offer TAG, which is why their admit rates above sit so far below the others, and why they vary so much from college to college.
Major is most of the story
Transfer applicants apply to a major, and the gap between majors at one campus is wider than the gap between colleges. A college whose students mostly apply to computer science, engineering, economics or psychology will show a lower admit rate and a higher admitted GPA than one whose students spread across the humanities and social sciences. Use the GPA table next to the rate table: a low rate with a high admitted GPA usually means competitive majors, not a college UC holds against its students.
What a student can control
Finish the major's preparation courses. ASSIST (assist.org) lists, course by course, what each UC campus expects from each community college for each major. Selective majors at Berkeley, UCLA and UCSD rarely admit students who haven't finished them.
File a TAG at one of the six campuses that offer it, as a floor under everything else.
Join the college's honors program if it has one. UCLA's Transfer Alliance Program (TAP) gives priority consideration to students who complete an honors program at a participating college.
Complete IGETC or the UC Transfer Pathway for the major so no general-education or preparation gap is left for a reader to hold against the application.
