# Transfer Preparation Requirements

**Source**: https://admission.ucla.edu/apply/transfer/deciding-on-major/major-preparation-the-college/requirements-for-chemistry-majors
**Parent**: https://admission.ucla.edu/apply/transfer/deciding-on-major/major-preparation-the-college

## Major Information

- [Chemistry](https://newstudents.ucla.edu/studyarea/?type=MAJ&code=153)
- [Chemistry/Materials Science](https://newstudents.ucla.edu/studyarea/?type=MAJ&code=155)

## Major Preparation Requirements

### Required courses for both majors

- One and a half years of calculus through multivariable
- Linear algebra
- One year of general chemistry with lab
- One course in organic chemistry with lab
- One course in calculus-based physics with lab

### Additional recommended courses prior to transfer

CHEMISTRY:

- A second semester of calculus-based physics with lab
- A second semester of organic chemistry with lab

CHEMISTRY-MATERIALS SCIENCE:

- Two additional semesters of calculus-based physics with lab

## Department Homepage

- [Chemistry department](https://www.chemistry.ucla.edu/)

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