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Understanding Courses and Units

COURSE DETAILS

For your UC Merced degree, you will take both lower division (lower level) and upper division (upper level) courses.

What's the difference?

All courses range from 1-5 units with most courses at UC Merced being 4-units.

Every semester it is recommended for you register for 12 or more to meet full-time status and 14-16 units to stay on track for normal progress.

NOTE : Waitlisted units do NOT count toward full-time status.

MAXIMUM UNITS PER SEMESTERS

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