Maximum Unit Limitation (for students enrolled at UC San Diego prior to fall 2019) An undergraduate student may register for no more than 200 course units. An exception is permitted for candidates for BS degrees in engineering, for whom the limits are 240 units in Revelle and Roosevelt Colleges and 230 units in all other colleges.
If you're attending other UC summer sessions, you must enroll in at least 6 quarter units at the other UC. If you're enrolled in multiple sessions, your aid will be divided among the sessions.
For example, if you completed a course worth four quarter credits at UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies, the course would be worth 2.66 semester credits. The Continuing Education Unit (CEU) is a uniform measure of non-credit postsecondary-level study.
The value of a course in units (“quarter units” or “quarter credits”) shall be reckoned at the rate of one unit for three hours’ work per week per quarter on the part of the student, or the equivalent. See the UC San Diego “ Credit Hour Policy .”
The undergraduate program consists of four four-unit courses each quarter, or sixteen units per quarter, for four years.
3 unitsUnits are a measurement system used to indicate the weight of a course. Most courses are worth 3 units (0.5 full-course equivalent). Most programs require 120 units for completion, this works out to 20 full-course equivalents. A four-year program is based on taking 30 units (5 full-course equivalents) per year.
According to UCSD's guidelines, one unit corresponds to 1 class-hour per week and 3 or more hours of homework per week, for a total of at least 4 hours of work each week per unit. Over the quarter this would correspond to a theoretical minimum of 40 hours of work per 1 UCSD unit.
Most standard college classes are awarded 3 or 4 units. Some very difficult, labor-intensive classes might be awarded a high number of units. For example, a challenging, upper-division class with a lab requirement might be assigned 5 units.
A unit represents approximately three hours of work per week. Thus a 3 unit course will probably require 9 hours of work per week, a 5 unit course will require 15 hours per week, and so forth. Of course, the actual hours may vary somewhat from class to class and student to student.
2.5 hoursIn a traditional semester, a typical 3-credit-hour class meets 3 times a week for 50 minutes, which is 2.5 hours (representing 3 hours of face-to-face instruction, assuming no breaks).
Most UC San Diego courses carry four quarter-units of credit, and a student usually takes four courses each quarter.
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UC San Diego students You are allowed to enroll in maximum of 12 units per session. If you are thinking about enrolling in more than 12 units per session, you must obtain authorization from your college. If you are enrolled in 6 units, you are considered full time status by the Registrar Office.
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For many students on their parent's insurance, tax or other purposes, 12 units is usually considered full-time. However, a new student working towards a two-year or Career Associate degree (90 units required) would need to complete 15 units a quarter for six quarters (3 quarters to an academic year).
Three credit units require students to work on that course for about 135 hours (45x3) in some combination of class/instructional time and independent time.
An undergraduate student who enrolls at UC San Diego as a first-year student in fall 2019 or thereafter is allowed to enroll for twelve quarters to complete all requirements for a bachelor of arts (BA) or bachelor of science (BS) degree; if a student reaches this quarter limit and needs additional time to complete those requirements, they will be required to submit a completion plan and have it approved by their college prior to enrolling for additional quarters to continue work toward the degree.
Each candidate for the bachelor’s degree must complete thirty-five of the final forty-five units in residence in the college or school of the University of California in which the degree is to be earned. Under certain circumstances exceptions may be granted by the provost, such as when a student attends classes on another UC campus as an approved visitor or participates in UC Education Abroad, the UCDC Program, or the UC Sacramento Program.
A major shall require the equivalent of twelve or more upp er-division courses (forty-eight or more units).
For purposes of this policy, “continuing students” are those who began higher education at UC San Diego or elsewhere before the change. Colleges and departments may deny protection under this policy to a student who has interrupted his or her education for more than two years.
For students who entered UC San Diego in fall 2019 or after: A student with a double major who has reached the quarter limits of Regulation 600 (C) and needs additional time to complete all requirements for both majors will be required to submit a completion plan and have it approved by their college prior to enrolling for additional quarters to continue work toward the degree.
The two majors may not be within the School of Engineering, nor, except with the approval of the Undergraduate Council, within a single department.
With the approval of both departments or programs and approval of the college provost, a student in good standing may declare a double major.
Core courses include two six-unit courses with intensive instruction in university-level writing.
Minimum Number of Units Required for Graduation. A bachelor of arts/bachelor of science degree requires a minimum of 180 units; at least sixty units must be upper division.
Two courses in the social sciences, two courses in the humanities, two courses in the natural sciences, one course in math/logic (options available for science and nonscience majors).
Includes two quarters of intensive instruction in university-level writing.
Most majors require twelve to eighteen upper-division courses based upon adequate lower-division preparation; such preparation may be part of the general-education requirements. Majors in certain engineering programs may require as many as twenty-one upper-division courses.
You are allowed to enroll in 11.5 units during the first pass and 19.5 units, including wait-listed courses, during the second pass up until the first day of instruction.
You can be wait-listed and enrolled in no more than 19.5 units as of the second pass, and no more than 22 units once the quarter has begun.
You can wait-list no more than one section of a course.
Current enrollment in a prerequisite class will satisfy a prerequisite.
You must be enrolled in at least 6 units at the time the loan funds are disbursed to your UC San Diego student account.
Before funds can be disbursed, most types of aid require enrollment in at least 6 units per quarter and 6 units during Summer Session.
These grant amounts are reduced if you're enrolled in less than 12 units. Pell Grants and Cal Grant stipends pay according to the number of enrolled units:
UC San Diego re-verifies your enrolled units at the end of each quarter's add period.
If you're enrolled in multiple sessions, your aid will be divided among the sessions. If your enrollment changes after you've been awarded summer aid, it may affect the amount of your summer eligibility, and as a result: Your aid disbursements may be canceled. You may have to repay aid you've already received.
Intercollegiate Athletics Fees: $155.13 per session. Material Fees. Some courses may require material fees, all students enrolled in those courses must pay the material fee. Please refer to the course description on the Schedule of Classes.
Some courses may require material fees, all students enrolled in those courses must pay the material fee. Please refer to the course description on the Schedule of Classes
Travel Study Courses and Global Seminars have a Program Fee in addition to the tuition. Please refer to the course description on the Schedule of Classes
Summer Session is open to current students, newly admitted fall freshmen and transfers, international students, community members and visitors from US colleges and local high schools.
The Office for Students with Disabilities (OSD) works with undergraduate, graduate, and professional school students to review medical documentation and determine reasonable accommodations.
The Academic Integrity (AI) Office promotes and supports a culture of academic integrity in order to reinforce quality teaching and learning at UC San Diego.