Transfer Units

Transfer Unit Information

Many students attend Santa Monica College to complete the freshman and sophomore years of a four-year college plan. Santa Monica College is a state leader in transferring students to four-year institutions, including the UC and CSU systems. These four-year institutions have lists of courses that should be completed to satisfy requirements for:

Typically, for admission to the UC and CSU system, you will be admitted if you have completed 60 or more transferable units of study with the appropriate grade point average. However, these institutions do not look just at the number of units you have completed--they also look at how these units apply to your educational goal, e.g. how many of the units meet your general education requirements, how many of these units meet your pre-major requirements, and so on.

Santa Monica College has worked out agreements with most local colleges and universities regarding how your units of credit will transfer to meet these particular requirements. You can look up this transfer information yourself, but you will probably find it much easier to use the assistance of SMC counselors in the Transfer/Counseling Center. The phone number is (310) 434-4210.


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