Transfer Requirements

Cal Poly Pomona requires all transfers to complete the following:

• Be in good academic standing at the last institutions attended
• Have a minimum 2.00 GPA in transferable coursework
• Have a minimum of 60 transferable semester (90 quarter) units
  • 30 (45 quarter) of the 60 semester units must be in General Education
  • Completion of the "Golden Four" courses (A1, A2, A3, and B4) with a C- or higher

Impacted majors may have required coursework that must completed with a "C" or higher.

Fall applicants must have requirements completed by the end of the Spring term and Spring applicants must have requirements completed by the end of the Summer term.

Please note, Cal Poly Pomona does not accept applicants who are seeking a 2nd Bachelor's degree. We encourage applicants to consider a Graduate degree.

All applicants must meet CSU minimum requirements to be reviewed for admission consideration. Non-local applicants applying to impacted majors will be held to a higher admission standard based on space available in the major.

Please be aware that an applicant is considered local if the majority of their units were earned at one of our local area community colleges or if they were awarded an Associate Degree for Transfer (ADT) from one of our local area community colleges. 

•  A1: Oral Communication - A basic public speaking course or other communication course. Must be completed with a "C-" or higher.
• A2: English Composition - An English composition course that emphasizes essay writing or reading and writing concurrently. Must be completed with a "C-" or higher. 
• A3: Critical Thinking - A second semester composition or writing course, or a course in reasoning and effective argumentative writing. Must be completed with a "C-" or higher. Please note, all Engineering majors are exempt from completing Critical Thinking as a part of the admission requirements
• B4: Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning - A mathematics course above the intermediate algebra level. Must be completed with a "C-" or higher. 

Fall applicants must have requirements completed by the end of the Spring term and Spring applicants must have requirements completed by the end of the Summer term.

Cal Poly Pomona's MFA model for transfer applicants is made up of academic and non-academic factors with a majority of the weight coming from academic criteria.

To be considered for admissions to Cal Poly Pomona, all applicants must meet the minimum CSU eligibility requirements. Once an applicant’s CSU eligibility has been determined, they will then be assessed based on a combination of GPA in all transferable coursework and additional Cal Poly Pomona selection criteria that creates and CPP Legibility Index for each applicant.

Additional Criteria
The following Cal Poly Pomona selection criteria is taken into admission consideration:

• Academic grade point average in all transferable coursework. 
• Priority to students from our local area.
• Your experiences and special circumstances such as military status, first generation to attend college, work experience, foster youth, extra-curricular activities, leadership positions, work related to major and  approved campus partnerships.
• Completion of preferred, recommended, or required coursework with a "C" or higher 

Please note, while local applicants will have an eligibility index, they will be admissible to a non-impacted program if they meet all of the minimum CSU requirements.