University Transfer
What does it meant to âTransferâ to a University?
To âtransferâ is to advance from the community college to a university to complete a Bachelorâs degree or higher. A student must apply to and be accepted at a university. If accepted, the student who has completed one of our 2-year, online Associate Degrees will enter a university as a Junior (3rd-year student). Typically, it will take the student 2 to 3 years of full-time student at a university to earn the Bachelorâs degree.
The advantage to beginning the Bachelorâs degree at a community college is the savings in tuition. Westâs tuition is as much as half the cost of tuition at a 4-year university. Additionally, Westâs classes are typically smaller than at universities so students have more access to their professors. Additionally, Westâs classes are taught by our professors, not teaching assistants, as is common in many universities.
West student routinely transfer to competitive California universities such as UCLA, USC, Stanford, Loyola and universities around the country.
Transfer to a University of California or CAL State Campus
California has three public college systems: the Community Colleges; the California State Universities (CSU or Cal State); and the University of California (UC) campuses. This integrated system of colleges is designed to make it easier for a student to from a community college like West to transfer to our associate universities such as UCLA, UC Berkley, UC San Diego, CSUN, Cal State LA, Cal State San Jose, etc.
