How easy is it to change majors within a college?

ucbalumnus
Fri, 18 Apr 2014 21:04:21 +0000

The course plan for chemical engineering lists an R&C course in the first semester, and H/SS breadth courses in the sixth through eight semesters. Of course, if you come in with AP credit for something like Math 1A and/or Math 1B (but check the old final exams before skipping), then you would gain free elective space.

To do pre-med as a chemical engineering major, you would likely need to add a second biology course and perhaps a biochemistry course (one of these can be the “science elective”; to fit the other, you would need a free elective space from skipping Math 1A, or take an overload semester), as well as use the H/SS breadth courses on those which are sometimes recommended or required by medical schools (e.g. psychology, sociology, etc.).