Freshman admission by discipline

Use caution in drawing conclusions from this information. Consult with the admission office for additional information. The data should be used as a general guide to selectivity and not as a predictor of a student’s chances for admission to a particular campus or major.

While freshman applicants to UC indicate a proposed primary and alternate major for each campus on their application, major choice is generally not a factor in freshman admission. Some campuses and colleges, however, do admit students directly into individual majors or may offer admission to a student with a different major than the one(s) in the application, or even as undeclared. Also, students may change their major between the time they are admitted and when they enroll at a campus. (These differences are not reflected on this dashboard.) . Several majors across a campus, possibly in different schools/colleges, may be grouped together, which may mask the differences in the degree of competition for admission among them.

Figures may not match campus data exactly due to definitional differences and the timing of reporting.

Click on categories (i.e., broad discipline, campus, fall term) to make a selection. The bar graph on top left will compare that selected group to all applicants to the campus. The table on the top right will compare across campuses by broad discipline.