Admission

Qualifications

Only regularly enrolled UCLA students may apply for Admission to the Communication Studies major. Students must have at least 45 letter-graded units at UCLA (or 36 UCLA units with at least 14 advanced placement credits). All courses completed prior to Spring 2010 will be credited.  It is not necessary to complete all of the lower division courses before applying.  However, students must have completed at least 2 of the courses included in the major, either lower or upper division.  All work pertaining to the major must be taken for a letter grade.

•  There is no minimum grade point average required for admission.
•  Admission decisions are based solely on the current year's pool of applicants.
•  The Admission Committee's criteria for acceptance are overall academic proficiency and courses relevant to the major.
  

Application Results

Application results are now available online.  Click here to view your admission status. (Note: Use Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari, as problems have been reported with the AOL web browser.)

Application Procedure

Applications for the next admission period will be available online from March 15, 2010, 11:00 a.m. to April 2nd, 2010, 3:00 p.m. Please come back at that time to this page to access the Application Form.

The Admissions Committee will arrange to receive your UCLA transcripts from the registrar through the end of Winter Quarter 2010.  If you have completed 36 quarter units or more from an institution other than UCLA (including UCLA Extension and Winter Bruins) it is your responsibility to submit those transcripts to the C.S. Main Office at 2303 Rolfe Hall by no later than the application deadline. (Unofficial copies from another institution are acceptable.)  The Admissions Committee will double-check for accuracy.
 

General Information

Notification regarding admission will be available online by logging back into this page beginning Friday, April 30th,  2010 at 1:00 p.m. 

•  Students not admitted at the sophomore or junior level may reapply the following year.
•  If you have 140 units or more, please consult with a counselor before applying.
•  Students will choose between interpersonal or mass concentration after they are admitted to the major.
•  Prospective double majors must be independently accepted into the CS Department; there is no automatic acceptance.
•  The Admissions Committee gives detailed attention to every application it receives, and its decisions each year are final. Other than to correct an error in the information it originally evaluated, the Admissions Committee is not able to comply with appeals from applicants for a second review.