All Math Pre-Majors, Majors, Minors, & Specialization

• Students must be in good academic standing at the time of their declaration and must have completed at least one full academic quarter (fall, winter, or spring with a minimum of 12.0 units) at UCLA before declaring into a program (pre-major, major, minor, & specialization).
• ALL courses toward the program be taken for letter grades.
• Declare by 160.0 units (excluding AP and IB credit). This is a soft deadline. If you are progressing in your major and can graduate within your Time to Degree (TTD), then you should be able to declare the major. However, all students who are over 150.0 units in the “Minimum 180 UC Units for a UCLA Degree” section on DARS will have to have final approval of the College in order to declare.

All Math Majors (Except the Three Specified Below)

• Mathematics preparation (pre-major) courses for mathematics majors must be passed with a “C” or better and an overall pre-major GPA of 2.5. Non-math pre-major courses can be finished after declaring.
  
  

Data Theory

• All pre-major courses must be passed with a “C” or better and an minimum pre-major GPA of 3.3. Math 115A is included as a pre-major course and must be passed with a “C” or better.
• Students who are admitted as transfers must complete ALL pre-major coursework by the end of their 3rd academic quarter (spring quarter) at UCLA.
• Students who are admitted as freshmen must complete ALL pre-major coursework by the end of their 7th academic quarter (fall quarter of third year) at UCLA.

Financial Actuarial Mathematics

• Each pre-major course must be passed with a “C” or better. Pre-major GPAs for mathematics and economics courses are calculated separately, and both pre-major GPAs must meet a minimum 2.5.

Mathematics/Economics

• Each pre-major course must be passed with a “C” or better. Pre-major GPAs for mathematics and economics courses are calculated separately, and both pre-major GPAs must meet a minimum 2.7.

Double Majors

• Complete all pre-major coursework for both majors.
• Complete at least two upper division courses exclusive to each major.

Minors

• Complete a minimum of 12.0 units of math courses at UCLA* with a “C” or better and a minimum 2.0 GPA in the minor. Of the 12.0 math units, at least one course must be an upper division course.
  *Non-math courses (eg: Stats 100AB) do not count toward the minor.
  *Math courses from other institutions can be used toward a math minor, but student must still complete a minimum of 12.0 math courses AT UCLA before declaring.

Specialization in Computing

• Complete PIC 10A and 10B or CS 31 and 32 with a “C-” or better in each course and minimum 2.0 GPA in the specialization.

Please see the Petitions page..

Submit your petition on any day of the end of the quarter (Finals Week) in which you’re completing your last minimum pre-major requirements. Your petition will stay in the queue, and it will be processed 2-3 weeks AFTER all your grades for the quarter have been posted.

In addition to meeting minimum course requirements for your program, all students must complete at least one academic quarter (fall, winter, or spring) at UCLA before declaring into a pre-major, major, or minor. If it is currently your first academic quarter at UCLA, submit your petition during Finals Week. 

Students who are in progress for their first academic quarter at UCLA OR in progress for their last pre-major requirements will be denied the petition if it submitted before Finals Week. 

If you are over 150.0 units of UCLA, transferred, and AP coursework in the “MINIMUM 180 UNITS FOR A UCLA DEGREE” section of DARS, your math advisor will submit a 150.0+ Petition on your behalf to the College of Letters & Sciences. This is for the College to check your non-major related requirements to make sure you are on track to graduate.

The 150.0+ Petition with the College can take an additional 15 business days on top of the Math Department’s processing time.

It typically takes 2-3 weeks for the Math Department to process your petition.

If you are submitting your petition during finals week because you are currently taking your last pre-major courses, your petition will be processed 2-3 weeks AFTER your final grades for the quarter have been posted because we need to see your grade. 

If you have 150.0 or more earned and in progress units in the “MINIMUM 180 UC UNITS FOR A UCLA DEGREE” section of your DARS, your petition will have go through a final approval from your College advising unit. This process is required in order for your college to make sure you will graduate on time. This process takes up to 15 business days, and there’s nothing you need to do on your end. Once the College finishes processing your petition and makes a decision, you will be able to find the status on MyUCLA under the Petitions tab. We will also notify you via email regarding your petition status.

1. Model Your DARS

1. Go to DARS.
2. Click Run Audit.
3. Click “Select a Different Program.” 
4. Select “College of Letters and Science – LS” and the term in which you plan to declare.
5. Select your prospective program. This is called “modeling your DARS.” You can model three different majors and two minors to compare different major requirements all at once.
6. Click Run Different Program. This will show you your pre-major and major course requirements. You can click on the courses to see its description and prerequisites.

2. Check the Tentative Schedule

• Use our Tentative Schedule to see when we plan to offer each course. We try to keep our offerings as consistent as possible each year. Use the current school year’s tentative schedule as a soft guide to plan every quarter, but please remember that things may change based on our resources.

3. Fill Out the Degree Plan Contract

• Fill in the Degree Plan Contract (DPC), using the list of courses from DARS and the tentative schedule. Remember to keep in mind that some courses have prerequisites and are offered in specific quarters.
  • List specific course numbers if the course is EXPLICITLY listed for your major.
    • E.g., Math 115A and 131A are specifically listed for every major. Math students should explicitly list Math 115A and 131A in their plan.
    • If you are listing a specific class, make sure you know what the prerequisites are. You can find prerequisites by clicking on the class name. A course catalog will pop up in a new window with details on the prerequisites and course description.
  • Upper division electives just need to be listed as “[Subject] UD.”
    • E.g., The math of computation major requires “6 upper division math electives” and “3 upper division computer science electives.” Math of Comp students should just list “Math UD” 6 times and “CS UD” 3 times in their plan.

4. Have an Advisor Review Your Plan

• See Academic Advising Hours for our hours or email your plan to ugrad[at]math.ucla.edu.

About CURRENT and COMING SOON PDF’s in MAJORS, MINORS & SPECIALIZATIONS:

Course requirements in the COMING SOON catalogs have yet to be implemented, and our department has not finalized an implementation date. Once the date is finalized in the future, it will be posted on the Majors, Minors & Specializations page as well as in our new department handbooks (See bottom of the Majors, Minors, and Specializations page).

If you are already officially declared into a math major (not pre-major), you are locked into the old requirements that you declared into. 

If you are pre-major at the time the department implements new catalog requirements, you will have one academic year to declare into a major under the “old” requirements before we enforce the new requirements.