# Transfer Preparation Requirements

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

## Major Preparation Requirements

### Required courses

- One year of general chemistry with lab
- One and a half years of calculus through multivariable

### Two or more additional courses from

- Linear algebra
- Differential equations
- One and a half years of calculus-based physics (mechanics, electricity, magnetism, etc.)
- One year of biology with lab
- Intro to computer science or computer programming
- Statistics (equivalent to UCLA’s Statistics 10 or Life Sciences 40)

## More Information

- [More information about this major](https://newstudents.ucla.edu/studyarea/?id=75)
- [Department homepage](https://casb.ucla.edu/)

\* Students are classified as Pre-Computational Biology until lower-division preparation courses are completed at UCLA.

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