SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – The University of California is trying to increase the number of undergraduates it admits from the state’s community colleges by spelling out the courses transferring students need to be eligible to complete their studies at a UC campus.
UC President Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday that the system has created transfer “pathways” for 10 of its most popular majors. They include biology, chemistry, economics and math.
The roadmaps list the three to five classes community college students would have to complete in their chosen field of study to be ready to enter a UC school as juniors and then earn their degrees in two years.
Transfer students currently make up about 30 percent of the new undergraduates the university system admits each year. Napolitano has committed to enrolling at least one transfer student for every two freshmen.
