California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) Transfer Acceptance Rate and Requirements, Fall 2027

Admission numbers

Fall 2025 admit rate: 50.2%
Transfer applicants: 26,319
Campus, upper-division transfers: Impacted
Spring 2027 transfers: Check

Term	Applicants	Admits	Admit rate	Enrolled
Fall 2025	26,319	13,204	50.2%	4,407

From Common Data Set 2025-2026, D2 (inner pages carry a 2024-2025 template header). Counts cover all transfer applicants, not only community college students.

Impaction at CSULB

The CSU impaction search for 2027-28 lists CSULB among campuses where all undergraduate programs, pre-programs and undeclared programs are impacted.

Minimum GPA by major

CSULB sets a minimum GPA for each major. Meeting it makes you eligible for review, and in impacted majors the strongest applicants above it are admitted.

Major	Published figure	Term
Communication Studies (all options)	2.5 minimum GPA, plus 2.5 GPA in COMM 110, 130, 131	Fall 2027 and spring 2028 applicants
Psychology	2.5 minimum GPA, plus 2.5 GPA in prep courses	Fall 2027 and spring 2028 applicants
Political Science, Global Studies, Environmental Science and Policy	2.5 minimum GPA	Fall 2027 and spring 2028 applicants
Economics (all degrees), Human Development, Sociology	2.25 minimum GPA	Fall 2027 and spring 2028 applicants
English, History, Anthropology and most other Liberal Arts majors	2.0 minimum GPA	Fall 2027 and spring 2028 applicants
Biology, Marine Biology, Microbiology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Mathematics, Geology, Earth Systems	2.5 minimum GPA	Fall 2027 and spring 2028 applicants
Physics (B.A. and B.S.)	2.25 minimum GPA	Fall 2027 and spring 2028 applicants
Liberal Studies	2.6 minimum GPA	Fall 2027 and spring 2028 applicants

Transferable GPA3.20

Major

I’ll finish a similar ADT

Well above the minimum

Communication Studies (all options): 2.50 minimum (Fall 2027 and spring 2028 applicants). Your GPA counts as 3.20.

The minimum makes you eligible for review. Impacted majors admit the strongest applicants above it.
Major prep courses and local-area status also count.

Compares your GPA with the minimum CSULB published for the major. It can’t see major prep or local-area status.

Local admission area

Since fall 2025, transfers are local if they graduated from a high school in CSULB's local area, are military veterans, or earned most units at Long Beach City, Cerritos, Golden West, Coastline or Orange Coast College as their last school. Local CSU-eligible applicants are guaranteed admission if they meet the major's minimum GPA and preparation. Local preference does not apply to highly impacted majors.

ADT and the Transfer Success Pathway

If the ADT is deemed similar to a CSULB major, its curriculum replaces the major-specific requirements and the cumulative GPA is increased by 0.1 for the major minimum and ranking. The ADT must be granted by the spring before fall entry.

CSULB offers TSP agreements for a list of participating majors only, and not all majors participate. The 2026 agreement window ran August 1 to October 31, 2026, and students may hold one agreement and cannot change majors.

How the ADT guarantee works across the CSU

Dates for fall 2027

For fall 2027, applicants can start the Cal State Apply application on August 1, 2026, and can submit it starting October 1, 2026. The priority filing deadline is November 30, 2026. CSU says many campuses and majors still accept applications after the priority period.

Date	What
November 30, 2026	End of the fall Cal State Apply submission period (Oct. 1 to Nov. 30). The CDS also lists 11/30 for fall.
End of spring 2027	Minimum requirements (60 units, 30 GE units, four basic skills courses with a C or better) and the ADT must be completed for fall 2027 entry.
Spring 2027	The ADT must be granted no later than the prior spring term to count for fall admission.

CSULB's spring filing window is July 1 to August 31, so the spring 2027 window closed August 31, 2026. No CSULB page confirming which majors were open for spring 2027 was verified.

More from CSULB

Students who do not qualify for their first-choice major are not considered for an alternate major. Source
Highly impacted majors may require supplemental criteria such as interviews, auditions or portfolios. Source
CSULB requires a C or better, not C-, in English Composition, Critical Thinking, Oral Communication and Mathematical Concepts and Quantitative Reasoning. Source
Lower-division transfers are admitted only in limited cases, such as some nursing students. Source
The fall 2027 major criteria require lower-division preparation courses completed with a C or better, and some majors set a separate minimum GPA for those courses. Source
The CSU Local Admission and Service Areas list (updated September 2026) describes CSULB transfer local preference by high school of graduation only. CSULB's own page adds the five local community colleges from fall 2025. Source

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Questions

What is CSULB’s transfer acceptance rate?

50.2% for fall 2025, 13,204 admitted of 26,319 transfer applicants, from the campus’s Common Data Set 2025-2026, D2 (inner pages carry a 2024-2025 template header).

What GPA do you need to transfer to CSULB?

The CSU minimum is a 2.0 transferable GPA for California residents. Impacted majors set higher lines, for example Communication Studies (all options) at 2.5 minimum GPA, plus 2.5 GPA in COMM 110, 130, 131 (Fall 2027 and spring 2028 applicants).

Is CSULB impacted for transfers?