UC Fall 2024 Applications Rise, Boosted by Transfer Students

Transfers stand to increase even more under a pilot program that prioritizes 2-year college students with associate degrees in certain majors.

A student walks toward Royce Hall on the campus of University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in Los Angeles on March 11, 2020. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

The University of California (UC) system saw a rise in applications for fall 2024—largely driven by an increase in transfer student applications.

The system, which has 10 university campuses across the state, reportedly received 250,436 applications for the upcoming 2024-25 school year—up 1.5 percent from last year’s applications.