Overview

Besides individual course requirements, students have to reach a particular number of units to earn a bachelor's degree, while staying within limits of how many units of a certain type can be applied to the degree as well as GPA criteria to maintain.

120-Unit Minimum

By default, degree evaluations include any in-progress units (or future progress, for upcoming terms) in the Units Earned. In this example, of the 20 units listed as "earned", only 3 units were completed previously (i.e., truly earned, past tense) and the other 17 units are actually in progress.
- Only after the current semester is complete, and assuming the student receives a D- or higher or Credit in all classes in order to earn units, the student will have completed 20 units and have 100 more to go to reach the minimum units needed for the degree.
Note: It is possible for a student to finish all specific course requirements before they reach 120 units. In these cases, the students must take general electives of interest or entertain adding a minor to reach 120 units.

Psychology Maximum Units

Only 56 units of PSY courses can be applied toward the 120 units needed for the bachelor's degree.
Lower- and upper-division PSY courses count toward this maximum (but courses from other departments do not, e.g., BIOL 100 for prep)
Limit applies to all PSY degree paths except the Applied/ADT path.

CC Transfer Units

Only 70 units of community college (CC) coursework can apply to the 120-unit minimum needed.
It is possible to transfer CC coursework past 70 units in to meet certain requirements (e.g., foreign language); it is just that the units for this coursework would not be added into totals for the degree.

Transfer units. Note that up to 90 units total units may be taken at other institutions, but there is still a 70-unit limit on CC coursework. Thus, if a student transfers in 70+ units from CC, then they can transfer up to 20 units from a different 4-year institution to SDSU (for a max of 90 units). Conversely, if student transfers 60 units from CC, they can transfer up to 30 units from a different 4-year university to SDSU.

Credit/No Credit cap:
- Not listed on the degree evaluation screenshot above, but another cap to keep in mind:
  - Students can elect to take up to 15 units of CR/NC.
  - No major units, or no upper-division minor units, can be taken for Cr/NC (if they are, they will not meet major/minor requirements).

Units to Take "in Residence" (@ SDSU)

Most of these units are reached along the way to earning the degree. The one that a student (in particular, a transfer student) might need to watch out for is reaching the 40 upper-division units mark. If students surpass 120 units but still have residence or specific course requirements left, they will not be able to graduate until all other requirements are met.
There is a major residency requirement as well, listed at the bottom of the upper-division major section of the degree evaluation.

Institution/SDSU and Total/Overall GPAs

Students have more GPA categories than these (listed under Academic Coursework section), but the 2 above are important because they relate to a student remaining in "Good Academic Standing". If either GPA category falls below 2.0, a student will be placed on Academic Probation and risk Disqualification if they are not able to reach GPA criteria based on their student rank (i.e., freshmen, sophomore, etc.).
In the example above, the student has not completed any courses at SDSU yet, thus no courses have been "attempted for a grade" at SDSU and there is no institution GPA.