Previously Reviewed Coursework Taken Outside the School of Biological Sciences

Searching for Coursework

You may search for coursework by institution/country, program, course code/number/title, unit value, UCSD equivalency/credit, and expiration term. All terms can be entered in the main search box below by placing a space between each search criteria.

When searching for coursework from UC San Diego or another UC, the full university name must be provided (e.g. University of California, San Diego).

The “+” (plus) sign is used in instances where a student must take multiple courses to be granted the stated credit.

If you plan to take a course that is not listed below, please contact Biology through the Virtual Advising Center to see if the course has been previously reviewed.

Coursework that has expired or has not been reviewed in the past would need to be petitioned for consideration of major credit.

Non-biology UCSD Courses

The School of Biological Sciences supports interdisciplinary exploration and allows major applicability exceptions for a limited number of non-biology UCSD courses, offered through other departments. The below list includes a set of UCSD courses that can be taken and applied to the stated major credit, assuming they are completed by the stated expiration term. Once enrolled, students can request their audits be manually updated, via the VAC.

Aside from the approved listed courses, new individual student requests for non-bio UCSD coursework will not be considered.

Minimum Criteria to Receive UC Equivalency/Credit

Minimum criteria (once posted to your UCSD academic history) to receive the specified UCSD

Equivalency/Credit:

  1. UC transferable
  2. Upper Division (if trying to satisfy an upper division requirement)
  3. Taken no later than the expiration term (if an expiration exists)
  4. Letter grade of C- or better
  5. Must be able to meet biology residency at time of graduation
  6. Biology Majors admitted to UCSD FA16 and earlier only: Any course that is approved for a biology elective and is valued at less than 4 units will need to be combined with another approved course in order to grant credit for one biology elective.

How to Request Biology Credit

If the course is taken outside of UCSD, once the course is completed with a final grade, an official transcript will need to be sent to UCSD Admissions. It can take up to three months for the course to transfer and post to your UCSD academic history.

If all the minimum criteria above are met, send Biology a VAC message after the course is posted to your UCSD academic history with a final grade so we can apply the stated UCSD Equivalency/Credit to your biology major accordingly.


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