Every year, thousands of capable and motivated students apply to numerus fixus programs. Many are turned away because places are limited, not because they lack potential. 

At UCR, you don’t apply to a fixed program. You enter one Liberal Arts & Sciences (LAS) bachelor program and shape your own route within the academic courses. A pathway is not a separate program or a fixed bachelor track, but a way to guide your course choices within UCR’s flexible curriculum.

Across our six clusters, you can build your own program and create a focused study profile that closely aligns with selective fields such as medicine, psychology, business, law, or data science. You work with your personal tutor to design a program that develops the disciplinary depth, research skills, and theoretical foundations expected by competitive master’s programs. 

This means you are not switching goals or sacrificing learning. You are simply choosing a different way of reaching them. Instead of one pre-packaged curriculum, you can create a bachelor’s that fits both: 

• your intended master’s direction. 
• and the broader academic formation that universities increasingly value. 
• giving you the same opportunities as numerus fixus programs.