UCLA Transfer Acceptance Rate by Major (Fall 2025)
For fall 2025, 23% of transfer applicants to UCLA were admitted (6,417 of 27,971), added up across every major. By major it ranges from 5% in Computer Science to 63% in Art History.
Below: every UCLA major with transfer preparation listed, 79 of them with their own admit rate. Open one to see its required classes and which classes count at your community college.
Hardest to get into
- Computer Science5%
- Computer Engineering6%
- Computer Science and Engineering9%
- Business Economics10%
- Bioengineering10%
Majors with 50+ transfer applicants, fall 2025.
Most open
- Art History63%
- Gender Studies63%
- Geography62%
- Anthropology60%
- Philosophy59%
Majors with 50+ transfer applicants, fall 2025.
All UCLA majors
- Aerospace Engineering · B.S.13%
- African American Studies · B.A.38%
- African and Middle Eastern Studies · B.A.n/a
- American Indian Studies · B.A.33%
- American Literature and Culture · B.A.73%
- Ancient Near East and Egyptology · B.A.n/a
- Anthropology · B.A.60%
- Anthropology · B.S.60%
- Applied Linguistics · B.A.54%
- Applied Mathematics · B.S.36%
- Arabic · B.A.n/a
- Art History · B.A.63%
- Asian American Studies · B.A.43%
- Asian Humanities · B.A.52%
- Asian Languages and Linguistics · B.A.48%
- Asian Religions · B.A.n/a
- Asian Studies · B.A.43%
- Astrophysics · B.S.34%
- Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences · B.S.n/a
- Atmospheric, and Oceanic Sciences/Mathematics · B.S.n/a
- Biochemistry · B.S.28%
- Bioengineering · B.S.10%
- Biology · B.S.17%
- Biophysics · B.S.32%
- Business Economics · B.A.10%
- Central and East European Languages and Cultures · B.A.n/a
- Chemical Engineering · B.S.34%
- Chemistry · B.S.26%
- Chemistry/Materials Science · B.S.n/a
- Chicana and Chicano Studies · B.A.41%
- Chinese · B.A.40%
- Civil Engineering · B.S.23%
- Classical Civilization · B.A.33%
- Climate Science · B.S.n/a
- Cognitive Science · B.S.26%
- Communication · B.A.13%
- Comparative Literature · B.A.54%
- Computational Biology · B.S.n/a
- Computer Engineering · B.S.6%
- Computer Science · B.S.5%
- Computer Science and Engineering · B.S.9%
- Data Theory · B.S.46%
- Disability Studies · B.A.n/a
- Earth and Environmental Science · B.A.20%
- Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution · B.S.13%
- Economics · B.A.16%
- Education and Social Transformation · B.A.55%
- Electrical Engineering · B.S.18%
- Engineering Geology · B.S.n/a
- English · B.A.56%
- Environmental Science · B.S.33%
- European Languages and Transcultural Studies · B.A.n/a
- European Languages and Transcultural Studies with French and Francophone · B.A.n/a
- European Languages and Transcultural Studies with German · B.A.n/a
- European Languages and Transcultural Studies with Italian · B.A.n/a
- European Languages and Transcultural Studies with Scandinavian · B.A.n/a
- European Studies · B.A.n/a
- Financial Actuarial Mathematics · B.S.20%
- Gender Studies · B.A.63%
- Geography · B.A.62%
- Geography/Environmental Studies · B.A.54%
- Geology · B.S.33%
- Geophysics · B.S.n/a
- Global Studies · B.A.41%
- Greek · B.A.n/a
- Greek and Latin · B.A.n/a
- History · B.A.58%
- Human Biology and Society · B.A.19%
- Human Biology and Society · B.S.19%
- International Development Studies · B.A.32%
- Iranian Studies · B.A.n/a
- Japanese · B.A.62%
- Jewish Studies · B.A.n/a
- Korean · B.A.n/a
- Labor Studies · B.A.46%
- Latin · B.A.n/a
- Latin American Studies · B.A.n/a
- Linguistics · B.A.58%
- Linguistics and Anthropology · B.A.55%
- Linguistics and Asian Languages and Cultures · B.A.57%
- Linguistics and Computer Science · B.A.40%
- Linguistics and English · B.A.n/a
- Linguistics and Philosophy · B.A.40%
- Linguistics and Psychology · B.A.39%
- Linguistics and Spanish · B.A.n/a
- Marine Biology · B.S.n/a
- Materials Engineering · B.S.40%
- Mathematics · B.S.31%
- Mathematics of Computation · B.S.48%
- Mathematics/Applied Science · B.S.25%
- Mathematics/Economics · B.S.35%
- Mechanical Engineering · B.S.12%
- Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics · B.S.29%
- Middle Eastern Studies · B.A.n/a
- Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology · B.S.30%
- Neuroscience · B.S.22%
- Nursing · B.S.n/a
- Philosophy · B.A.59%
- Physics · B.A.31%
- Physics · B.S.31%
- Physiological Science · B.S.20%
- Political Science · B.A.34%
- Portuguese & Brazilian Studies · B.A.n/a
- Psychobiology · B.S.17%
- Psychology · B.A.21%
- Public Affairs · B.A.46%
- Public Health · B.A.12%
- Public Health · B.S.12%
- Religion, Study of · B.A.n/a
- Russian Language and Literature · B.A.n/a
- Russian Studies · B.A.n/a
- Sociology · B.A.41%
- Southeast Asian Studies · B.A.n/a
- Spanish · B.A.58%
- Spanish and Community and Culture · B.A.n/a
- Spanish and Linguistics · B.A.n/a
- Spanish and Portuguese · B.A.n/a
- Statistics and Data Science · B.S.23%
Admit rates: UC Information Center, Fall 2025 transfers by major. “n/a” means UC publishes no separate figure for that major, or fewer than 10 students applied.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the UCLA transfer acceptance rate?
Added up across every major in UC's Fall 2025 transfer admissions table, 6,417 of 27,971 transfer applicants to UCLA were admitted, about 23%. The rate for your major can be far from that; the list on this page has each one.
Which UCLA majors are hardest to transfer into?
Among majors with at least 50 transfer applicants for fall 2025, the lowest admit rates were Computer Science (5%), Computer Engineering (6%), Computer Science and Engineering (9%), Business Economics (10%), Bioengineering (10%).
Which UCLA majors are easiest to transfer into?
Among majors with at least 50 transfer applicants for fall 2025, the highest admit rates were Art History (63%), Gender Studies (63%), Geography (62%), Anthropology (60%), Philosophy (59%).
Which UCLA majors can I prepare for at a California community college?
UCLA lists major preparation for 118 majors that California community colleges have transfer agreements for. Each one on this page shows the classes UCLA expects and lets you pick your college to see its matching classes.