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# Transfer Preparation Requirements

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

## Major Preparation Requirements

### Required courses

- One and a half years of calculus through multivariable
- Linear algebra
- One year of calculus-based physics (mechanics, electricity, magnetism, etc.)

### Strongly recommended courses

- One year of general chemistry
- One course in biology with lab for the major (cellular, molecular)
- Differential equations
- Additional calculus-based physics courses

## More Information

- [More information about this major](https://newstudents.ucla.edu/studyarea/?type=MAJ&code=126)
- [Department homepage](https://www.pa.ucla.edu/index.php)

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