Diablo Valley College to UCI
Business Administration Transfer Plan

Planning your transfer from Diablo Valley College (DVC) to UC Irvine as a Business Administration major is one of the more competitive paths in the California community college transfer system — and getting the details right early makes an enormous difference. Historical data shows UC Irvine Business Administration admitted roughly 411 students out of approximately 2,589 applicants in a recent cycle, an admit rate around 16% that sits well below UCI's overall transfer rate of about 40%. To be a competitive applicant, DVC students need to complete six lower-division major prerequisites — BUS 21 (Financial Accounting), BUS 22 (Managerial Accounting), ECON 201, ECON 202, MATH 192, and MATH 120 — with a cumulative 3.0 GPA in those courses and an overall transferable GPA as close to 4.0 as possible, since mid-50th percentile admits have come in between 3.74 and 3.98. A critical piece of transfer planning that many students overlook: Business Administration does not participate in UCI's Transfer Admission Guarantee (TAG) program, meaning there is no way to lock in admission in advance — you compete in the regular applicant pool. On the general education side, IGETC is accepted for this major, and savvy students will notice that MATH 120 satisfies both the IGETC Area 2 math requirement and the major's statistics prerequisite simultaneously — a strategic double-count worth building into your plan. Articulation agreements between DVC and UCI, viewable on ASSIST.org, confirm exactly which DVC courses satisfy each UCI lower-division requirement. Tools like Pipeline help students at Diablo Valley College map all of this out in a single personalized transfer plan — combining major prerequisites, IGETC coursework, and prerequisite chains so nothing falls through the cracks on the road to the Paul Merage School of Business.