Undergraduate Admissions, Policies and Procedures

Intersegmental General-Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC)

Summary Outline

Completion of the Intersegmental General-Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) will permit a student to transfer from a community college to a campus in the University of California system without the need, after transfer, to take additional lower-division, general-education courses.

It should be noted that completion of the IGETC is not a requirement for transfer to UC, nor is it the only way to fulfill the lower-division, general-education requirements of UC prior to transfer. Depending on a student’s major and field of interest, the student may find it advantageous to take courses fulfilling the general-education requirements of the UC campus or college to which the student plans to transfer. IGETC is applicable at Earl Warren, Sixth, Thurgood Marshall, and John Muir colleges only. Courses completed prior to transfer will be applied toward the college’s own lower-division requirements. Revelle students must also complete the remainder of the college’s requirements. Students at Eleanor Roosevelt College must complete three academic quarters of the “Making of the Modern World” sequence in addition to the IGETC requirements. They must also complete the remainder of the college’s general education requirements.