Engineering is a program of study at University of California - Berkeley. The school offers a bachelor’s degree in the area. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the bachelor’s degree program in engineering, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, and more.
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In order to help students and their parents find the best school for them, we have created several different types of college rankings, which are updated yearly. In College Factual's most recent rankings for the best schools for engineering majors, UC Berkeley came in at #21. This puts it in the top 5% of the country in this field of study. It is also ranked #5 in California.
Here are some of the other rankings for UC Berkeley.
Information about average full-time undergraduate tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
---|---|---|
Tuition | $11,442 | $41,196 |
Fees | $2,870 | $2,870 |
Books and Supplies | $1,091 | $1,091 |
On Campus Room and Board | $20,530 | $20,530 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $5,595 | $5,595 |
Learn more about UC Berkeley tuition and fees.
UC Berkeley does not offer an online option for its engineering bachelor’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the UC Berkeley Online Learning page.
About 28.5% of the students who received their BS in engineering in 2019-2020 were women. This is higher than the nationwide number of 23.9%.
Of those graduates who received a bachelor’s degree in engineering at UC Berkeley in 2019-2020, 59.3% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is higher than the nationwide number of 31%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 482 |
Black or African American | 1 |
Hispanic or Latino | 71 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 219 |
International Students | 153 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 85 |
Engineering students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Biomedical Engineering | 86 |
Chemical Engineering | 112 |
Civil Engineering | 81 |
Electrical Engineering | 452 |
Engineering Physics | 11 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.