Students Who Begin Fall 2025 and Beyond
Cerritos College GE Patterns for students starting Fall 2025
Cerritos General Education Curriculum (CGEC)
Primarily for students interested in completing a local Associate of Arts (AA) or Associate of Science (AS) degree to prepare for a vocational career upon graduation.
Students pursuing an AA or AS may choose to follow Cal-GETC instead of CGEC.
2026-2027 CGEC
2025-2026 CGEC
For use of Advanced Placement Exams to meet AA or AS General Education requirements, please refer to the 2025-2026 Cerritos College.
California General Education Transfer Curriculum (Cal-GETC)
Primarily for students interested in completing an Associate Degree for Transfer (AA-T or AS-T) or transferring to a CSU or UC.
Completing Cal-GETC will permit students to transfer to all CSUs and most UC campuses and programs without the need for additional lower-division coursework to be completed after transfer.
Students are strongly encouraged to meet with a counselor prior to transfer to discuss Cal-GETC requirements and whether or not it is appropriate for their educational goal and based on previous college credit they may have earned.
2026-2027 Cal-GETC
Lists courses approved if completed Fall 2026, Spring 2027, or Summer 2027
2025-2026 Cal-GETC
Lists courses approved if completed Fall 2025, Spring 2026, or Summer 2026
Learn more about Cal-GETC!
For information about external exams like Advanced Placement (AP) or International Baccalaureate (IB), please visit the External Exams webpage.
Regardless of continuous attendance, for a course to be counted toward Cal-GETC, it must have been approved for the academic year in which it was successfully completed. While rare, courses are sometimes removed from a transfer GE list. For example, effective Fall 2026, PSYC 262 and POLS 280 cannot be applied to the Ethnic Studies area of CSU GE-Breadth, IGETC, or Cal-GETC (Areas F, 7, and 6 respectively); and CHIN 102 cannot be applied to the Humanities area of IGETC or Cal-GETC (Area 3B).
For a complete listing of courses and their approval dates, please the ASSIST website.
Students eligible to follow IGETC may use Cal-GETC-approved courses in the same IGETC area(s)—whether newly created or newly approved as of Fall 2025.
Students following Cal-GETC and who completed IGETC-approved courses prior to Fall 2025 may apply those courses in the same Cal-GETC area(s).