Jiales

IGETC may be an inappropriate option for the following UC campus majors:
Los Angeles:
o School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
o School of Nursing

This is what my school's IGETC requirements says. Does it say somewhere else that it is in fact required. I'm confused because I'd heard it was.

Edward04

IGETC is not recommended, nor required for Engineering and Nursing because you'll already have so many classes/units while pursuing those majors that IGETC would just be ridiculous.

To answer your question: Nowhere does it say IGETC is required for UCLA Engineering or Nursing.

Jiales

Do you think if I managed to finish it though would that give me an advantage when looked at by UCLA.

Malishka31

The UCLA website for nursing says that IGETC is required though.

Look up the ucla website. That would superceed what that paper says.

For engineering they simply do not accept IGETC certification so there is no point in having it done, and their requirements are different for GE than the college of letters and sciences.

The school of nursing program however says IGETC REQUIRED- something i have NEVER seen except for on the nursing program.

Jiales

Transfer Applicants: Transfer applicants must have completed all IGETC requirements or all general education requirements at the school where currently or previously enrolled

So what does the "Or general education requirements mean".

AwakenZero

You can complete the IGETC which is more broad based for UC and CSU campuses with CSU having some additional requirements. Or you can follow their GE course outline for that specific school. In your case you can do the IGETC or do a general education breadth for the specific UC school from your community college. You can look up the specific general education breadth requirements on assist.org and go under general education/breadth after you selected your schools.

I just checked and theres two nursing major types

Nursing-Generic/Prelicensure/B.S. REQUIRES IGETC
Nursing-RN-BS/Postlicensure/B.S. does not require IGETC

Most likely in your case it would be the first option because you would not meet the requirements for the second option so you would have to complete IGETC.

Here are the information from assist.org about the two different majors:
Nursing-Generic/Prelicensure/B.S. : ASSIST Report: SCC 07-08 UCLA Articulation Agreement by Major
Nursing-RN-BS/Postlicensure/B.S. : ASSIST Report: SCC 07-08 UCLA Articulation Agreement by Major

I hope this helps you, and good luck

Jiales

Should I do both general and IGETC, at the moment that's my plan.

Malishka31

No, why? that is wasteful.

Few people do the general requirements, and having them done on top of iGETC is not going to improve your chances for admission.

AwakenZero

Malishka31 is right, both of them serve the same purpose.

The general requirement is only good when they have extra courses in a certain area that appeal to you more than some of the courses under the IGETC for a specific area.

However, the general breadth is not really good because it limits you to basically the one university that you are using the breadth for. IGETC on the other gives you alot of flexiblity to meet the general education requirements for a wide range of campus, both UC and CSU.

I strongly recommend doing the IGETC unless the department recommends that against doing the IGETC.

Jiales

Ok so I was a tad confused earlier, I thought the GE was the prereq's for a certain major. So bottom line is that I need to complete IGETC and the prereq's for nursing which is my goal.

AwakenZero

Yup, on assist.org they have the breadth requirements which an alternative to the IGETC. You can go look at it, but IGETC is the way to go. Most people transferring to a UC generally do the IGETC.