Program Overview

GE Basic Requirements

 

  • All Cal Poly students are required to take 72 quarter units of General Education.

  • A minimum of 12 units is required in residence (i.e., Cal Poly enrollment).

  • A minimum of 12 units is required at the upper-division level (8 units upper-division for ABET-accredited engineering programs).

  • For students admitted in Fall 2016 or later, a grade of C- or better is required in one course in each of the following GE Areas: A1 (Expository Writing), A2 (Oral Communication), A3 (Reasoning, Argumentation, Writing), and B1 (Mathematics/Statistics).

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