General Education Requirements

Every student seeking a bachelor's degree must take a substantial proportion of coursework designated as General Education (GE) courses.  Under the provisions of Title 5 Education of the California Code of Regulations, Cal Poly Pomona offers a variety of GE courses.  To read more about the general education requirements, click here.

Certification of General Education Requirements
"Certification" refers to official notification from a California Community College that a transfer student has completed courses fulfilling CSU general education requirements.

Executive Order 1033 (formerly 595) authorizes California Community Colleges to certify up to 39 semester units (or 58.5 quarter units) toward the completion of lower division general education requirements.  Cal Poly Pomona accepts both CSU Breadth General Education Certification and IGETC (Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum) when it is completed in accordance with this executive order.

A maximum of 70 semester units or 105 quarter units transferred from other institutions may be applied toward the cumulative unit requirement for a Bachelor's Degree.