Undergraduate Admissions Requirements

Freshman Admissions

Students who wish to major in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation as incoming freshmen apply directly to the UF Office of Admissions. Additional information about freshman admissions can be found at the UF Undergraduate Admissions Website.

Transfer Admissions

Students who wish to major in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation with 60 or more transferable college credit hours are considered upper-division transfer students and apply directly to the UF/IFAS College of Agricultural and Life Sciences for admission. Please refer to the College’s website, http://cals.ufl.edu/prospective/ for transfer admission deadlines and application instructions.

Upper-division transfer students must complete the following prior to transfer to the UF/IFAS College of Agricultural and Life Sciences:

  1. 60 hours of transferable college credit (AA degree preferred)  with a minimum 2.00 overall GPA
  2. The critical tracking courses required for the Wildlife Ecology and Conservation major (with a minimum 2.50 overall GPA on this critical tracking coursework) which must include:
    • MAC 2311 -- Analytic Geometry and Calculus 1
    • STA 2023 -- Introduction to Statistics 1
    • BSC 2010 and BSC 2010L -- Integrated Principles of Biology 1 and Lab
    • BSC 2011 and BSC 2011L -- Integrated Principles of Biology 2 and Lab
    • CHM 2045 and SCH 2045L -- General Chemistry 1 and Lab
    • CHM 2046 and CHM 2046 L – General Chemistry 2 and Lab (preprofessional specialization only)
    • ECO 2023 – Principles of Microeconomics

Critical tracking course equivalencies and additional admissions information for the UF/IFAS College of Agricultural and Life Science can be found in the Transfer Guide.

For more information regarding transfer admissions, please visit the UF/IFAS College of Agricultural and Life Sciences website, http://cals.ufl.edu/.