a maximum of 4 semesters for UC Berkeley (transfers))

Lemaitre1
Thu, 26 May 2011 16:43:10 +0000

UC Berkeley is very strict about their two calander year time limit for transfer students to either finish their requirements for graduation or have their enrollment terminated whether the student has enough credits to graduate or not. Some majors such as Engineering will be allowed one extra semester to finish their degree requirements before having their enrollment terminated. Students majoring in anything but Engineering and facing termination of their enrollment after two years without meeting their graduation requirements can petition for another semester but the request has to be made to your Dean and is very rarely approved.

UC Berkeley realizes this policy can sometimes result in harsh outcomes but there are only so many spots available for transfer students at UC Berkeley and if transfer students were allowed to stay for more than two years, the school would have to reduce the number of transfers that it can accept each year to stay within the limits set for transfer students studying at UC Berkeley. To give as many transfer students as possible an opportunity to go to UC Berkeley they have to be very inflexible on the two year maximum.

This means that CCC transfer students who have gotten into the habit of dropping courses with plans to take them the following semester are going to have to realize they can not do that at UC Berkeley and hope to leave with a diploma.