UC transfer acceptance rates for every California community college

The community college matters less than the campus

In fall 2025, 36,017 students applied to transfer to UC from 115 California community colleges, and 76.6% of them were admitted to at least one campus. The campus decides most of the odds: UCLA admitted 26.5% of community college applicants and Berkeley 25.0%.

Among the 58 colleges that sent UCLA 100 or more applicants, the admit rate ran from 14.4% at Riverside City College to 36.1% at Los Angeles Pierce College. A college’s rate reflects the students it sends and the majors they choose as much as the college itself, so we read it as a sign of how well-worn the path from that college is.

Your college at every UC, fall 2025

Type a community college to see its transfer admit rate at each UC campus, next to every other college in California.

TryDe Anza CollegeLaney CollegeLos Angeles Pierce CollegeCity College of San Francisco

Santa Monica College, campus by campus

Santa Monica, Los Angeles County. Fall 2025 transfer applicants, admits and enrollees at each UC campus.

UC leaves a count blank when fewer than five students applied or fewer than three were admitted or enrolled; “Not published” is one of those blanks, and we never estimate it.

The trend, fall 2016 to 2025

Every community college at UCLA

Transfer admit rates by race and ethnicity

Every California community college added together, fall 2025, at UCLA.

UC blanks a group at a college when it is small, so these add up only the colleges where UC printed both numbers of each rate. Groups with fewer than 20 such applicants at a campus are left off. “Not stated” is UC’s “Domestic unknown”.

Transfer admit rates by major, fall 2025

The same fall from UC’s transfers-by-major table, for every major a campus reported. These count transfer applicants from every kind of school, not only community colleges, and include the middle half of admitted transfer GPAs.

UC’s table has a filter it does not label, T_CD, set to 2 by default. We tested its values: 2 holds the fall counts, while 3 and 4 hold a few hundred mid-year admissions at a handful of campuses and nothing for fall 2025. So these are fall 2025 numbers. UC marks some GPA ranges as redacted for small groups; those show as not published. Transfer GPA is self-reported on the application.

What is not here: transfer GPA by college

UC publishes a view meant to show the average GPA of transfer applicants, admits and enrollees from each community college. On UC’s own server that view is empty today, for every year we tried, so we cannot show GPA by college and we have not estimated it. The closest public number is the admitted GPA range by major in the table above, which counts transfers from every kind of school.

How we built this page

We downloaded UC’s transfer table for every campus and every fall from 1994 to 2025, fall term only, California community colleges only. Before downloading we checked that each filter really changes UC’s answer, because UC’s data tool quietly ignores a filter it does not recognize and returns its default year instead. The trend on this page covers the last ten falls.

Any UC campus counts a student admitted to at least one campus once. Enrollees are students who enrolled at that campus in the fall. Rates add up only the colleges where UC printed both numbers.