Graduate and post-baccalaureate applicants may apply for a degree objective, a credential or certificate objective. Students who meet both the minimum requirements established by the CSU system and the specific professional, personal, scholastic, and other standards, including qualifying examinations, prescribed by the academic program will be admitted as Classified Post-Baccalaureate or Credential candidates. Applicants may be admitted as Conditionally Classified if, in the opinion of appropriate campus authorities, deficiencies may be remedied by additional preparation. In unusual circumstances, a campus may make exceptions to these criteria.
To meet the minimum requirements for admission to graduate and postbaccalaureate studies at CSULB, a student shall at the time of enrollment: (1) have completed a four-year college course of study and hold an acceptable baccalaureate degree from an institution accredited by a regional accrediting association, or have completed equivalent academic preparation as determined by appropriate campus authorities; (2) be in good academic standing at the last college or university attended; and (3) have attained an acceptable grade-point average in any of the following ways: (a) hold an advanced degree; (b) hold a baccalaureate degree with a cumulative GPA of at least 2.5 (A = 4.0); (c) hold a baccalaureate degree with a GPA of at least 2.5 in the last 60 semester (90 quarter) units attempted lower-division courses or courses taken in extension (except in adjunct enrollment at CSULB in the upper-division level) after obtaining the bachelor's degree will be excluded from the calculation.
Students in the process of completing a baccalaureate degree may be admitted on a provisional basis, subject to proof of degree completion by the established deadline, if their cumulative GPA is at least 2.7 or if the GPA in their last 60 semester or 90 quarter units are calculated at 2.5 or higher.
For information on the specific requirements for admission to a given program, see the Catalog section for that program.
These and other CSU admissions requirements are subject to change as policies are revised and laws are amended. The CSU website, www.calstate.edu and the CSU admissions portal www.csumentor.edu are good sources of the most up-to-date information.
To qualify for admission in conditionally classified graduate standing, a student must:
A student who meets the minimum requirements for admission as a graduate student, as specified in the preceding paragraph, may be admitted as a fully classified graduate student pursuing an authorized degree curriculum if the appropriate program authorities determine that he or she satisfactorily meets the professional, personal, scholastic, or other standards for admission to the graduate degree curriculum, including qualifying examinations that the appropriate program authorities may prescribe. Only those applicants who show promise of success and fitness will be admitted to graduate degree curricula, and only those who continue to demonstrate a satisfactory level of scholastic competence and fitness shall be eligible to proceed in such curricula.
In this status a student is eligible to enroll in a credential or certificate program, provided that such additional professional, personal, scholastic, and other standards, including qualifying examinations, as may be prescribed for the particular credential or certificate program by the appropriate campus authority, are satisfied.
For admission requirements, see the Admission section of the catalog.
Graduate Admissions Information
Graduate Policies and Regulations
