Hi everyone, Im currently a Comp sci junior student at CSUF. I spent 3 years in Community College and then transferred to CSUF. I spent a year in CSUF so far and I happen to get waitlist for my UCI Software engineering major. I wanted to know if CSUF students courseworks credits would be accepted/matched with coursework at UCI for the Software engineering major. My plan is to graduate within the next two years at the most(My CSUF classes makes me graduate in fall of 2025). I wanted to know if anyone has any similar experiences like this?
Can you talk to a UCI transfer advisor? I imagine they have transfer tables.
what are transfer tables?, is it different than ones from assist.org?
Sorry - I’m saying the class equivalencies - in other words, if you go to UCI, will you be on pace for your degree. Will all classes transfer?
Assist.org does not list articulation agreements between UCI and CSUF. That either means no classes transfer or those information will need to come directly from UCI.
The bigger question you need to ask is: why transfer? Assuming the classes don’t transfer, you will end up repeating likely 2 more years at UCI beyond what you have already done.
I’m sure you already know CS is a hard major to transfer from CC because many classes are not available at CC and you end up spending the time to make them up. It is likely UCI will not take the CSU classes.
Are you looking for prestige? Not feel challenged at CSUF?
IMO, a better path is finishing your BS at CSUF quickly and apply to a MS program at a bigger name school (UCB/Stanford/MIT) you are chasing prestige. I think your ultimate time commitment will be the same AND you don’t end up looking wishy washy about your life/educational goals.
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I see, so they do accept the CSU classes? I’ve emailed admissions haven’t heard back yet.
Its just in CSUF there’s not much opportunities for CS students, The buildings is also really old and only 1/5 CS graduates from this school Ik have gotten jobs, rest are still searching. It made me really consider UCI as everyone ik for UCI(graduates) have gotten jobs. And Ik that UCI has a whole school just for Computer Science. Also I do understand that it takes longer than 2 years to complete the coursworks (currently csuf im prob graduating fall 2025, which is 2.5 years) which is why if UCI takes my csuf credits I’ll commit there. I am just determined to graduate by at most spring 2026…
i can’t answer - that would be for you to find out.
Try calling or see if they allow for zoom appointments.
Sending emails = slow responses and back and forth.
Call and get all your questions answered, hopefully, at once.
They haven’t still given me a response, but I came across this - UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences on step 4. Does it mean they take the credits?
It often means that classes will need to be individually evaluated for transfer subject credit. Many schools do not do this until after the student matriculates, so there is some risk involved (i.e. previously taken courses do not get needed subject credit, so that the student needs to do more “catch up” after transfer).
UCI has lots of very UCI-specific I&C (CS) courses, so the risk of transfer courses not covering them may be higher for UCI CS than for many other schools or majors. Even where ASSIST.org has an articulation agreement from a community college to UCI, many of those UCI-specific I&C (CS) courses show no articulation.
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I came across this - UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences Step#4, does this mean they take the credits?
It means that UCI will individually evaluate your previous courses (those not listed on ASSIST.org) for subject credit, based on the course syllabus for each course you submit. You will not know until the evaluation is complete whether you will get subject credit to cover UCI I&C courses that you need to have as prerequisites for other courses or subject requirements for the major.
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How early do they respond and how often do they take courseworks like this. Also should I email ucounsel@uci.edu about this situation, is there another contact/department that can help?