In order to be eligible for graduation, all undergraduates must complete the requirements for a major in the College of Letters and Science with the required grade-point averages and academic residence requirements satisfied.
Please review the following regulations and considerations:
- To ensure timely progress toward the degree, students are required to declare their major by the time they reach 90 units.
- Students may elect any approved major program for which they have met the stated prerequisites as space permits and provided they will complete the degree requirements without exceeding 200 units.
- Students from the College of Engineering and the College of Creative Studies will not be accepted into the College of Letters and Science after they have completed 180 units.
- Major departments and/ or committees may require auditions, placement examinations, or specified courses to determine whether students are qualified for entrance into or continuation in a major.
- Admission into the Individual Major and the Interdisciplinary Studies Major is subject to the approval of the Executive Committee of the College of Letters and Science.
- Some departments require a grade-point average in excess of 2.0 for entrance into the major as noted in the General Catalog. Students who fail to maintain a grade-point average of at least 2.0 in work in the major may, at the option of the major department or committee, be denied the privilege of continuing in that major.
- Students in the College of Letters and Science normally complete the major requirements in effect at the time they declare their major, though they may petition to follow a subsequent set of requirements.
- Changes in major requirements that increase the number or specificity of courses required will not generally be applied to already-declared students continuing in such majors. However, if students take one or more breaks in enrollments totaling nine or more quarters, they may be required to follow a newer catalog year upon their final return to UCSB.