At 4 pm ET today, March 21, UGA will release the transfer decisions for the Summer/Fall 2025 applicant pool. Just like with our freshman decisions, UGA is committed to ensuring that all students have a wonderful experience during their time here. For incoming transfer students, this includes ensuring they can enroll in necessary classes, providing academic and personal assistance to them, and supporting them to graduate in the earliest timeframe possible. However, we have a limited capacity for transfers, with a maximum enrollment of 1,900 students for the summer/fall semesters. We admitted a large group of students based on their academic merit, and we also admitted a group of students based on both an academic and holistic review which I outlined in a previous transfer admissions blog post. In our review, we want to make sure that students are academically ready for UGA and the classes they will take in the future coursework at UGA. Students might also want to review the Transfer FAQ site, as this can give more details on how we review transcripts, how we review hours, etc.
Total Applicants: Approximately 3,800 students applied for Transfer Admission, and we will offer admission to roughly 2,460 students today. Please remember that not all students who are admitted will enroll, as they have a number of different options ahead of them. Based on several years of prior enrollment data, we project that these offers of admission, along with the few remaining files without decisions, will result in roughly 1,900 enrolling students (enrolling meaning actually being on campus and taking classes). The small number of students (less than 100) who will not hear a decision yet due to other issues such as being a Transfer Pathways student and needing spring work, and again, we have built these numbers into the projected 1,900 data.
Overall Academic Information: The average GPA for the overall applicant pool was a 3.47 GPA, and for admitted students, the average GPA was a 3.71 GPA.
Top Five Admitted Student Majors:
- Finance
- Biology
- Computer Science
- Psychology
- Accounting
Top Five Admitted Student Transfer Colleges: While we do not use a student’s prior college in our review, it is always interesting to see where transfer students previously enrolled.
- Kennesaw State University
- University of North Georgia
- Georgia State University
- Georgia College and State University
- Georgia Southern University
Please remember that this is not a blog where you should post statistics or throw fellow students under the bus. These types of comments will be deleted.