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A Tradition of Innovation Berkeley Engineering is a community that is dedicated to creating tomorrow's leaders and supporting today's pioneers. Students and researchers from around the world are drawn to Berkeley by its outstanding reputation, its internationally recognized faculty and its strong tradition of impact in research and teaching. Earlier Berkeley engineers brought water to California's great agricultural lands, pioneered the microelectronics that seeded Silicon Valley and helped build the unbuildable in structures like Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge. Today, Berkeley engineers in every field remain at the center of technological innovation worldwide. Our Mission To educate men and women for careers of leadership and innovation in engineering and related fields To expand the base of engineering knowledge through original research and by developing technology to serve the needs of society To benefit the public through service to industry, government and the engineering profession Our Vision Increasingly rapid advances in technology are creating unprecedented opportunities for innovation in every field of engineering. Today, opportunities to benefit society through engineering advancements are unparalleled in history. As a national leader in engineering education, Berkeley's College of Engineering is positioned to make major contributions in this era of opportunity.

The College of Environmental Design — the top-ranked public school in the U.S. for architecture and the built environment (QS World University Rankings) — is UC Berkeley’s home for theory, research, innovation, and practice focused on the built environment. Housing the Departments of Architecture, City & Regional Planning, and Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, as well as the Institute for Urban & Regional Development and five affiliated research centers, the college is an interdisciplinary creative community dedicated to solving the world’s most pressing environmental problems. Research and teaching focus on design excellence, climate solutions, equity and social justice, and new materials and technologies. When it was founded in 1959, it was the first school to combine the disciplines of architecture, planning, and landscape architecture under one umbrella, and CED continues to lead the way toward an integrated approach to analyzing, understanding, and designing our built environment. CED awards the following degrees: Undergraduate BA Architecture BA Landscape Architecture BA Urban Studies BA Sustainable Environmental Design Graduate and Postgraduate MArch Master of Architecture MS Master of Science in Architecture MAAD Master of Advanced Architectural Design MLA Master of Landscape Architecture MCP Master of City Planning MRED + D Master of Real Estate Development + Design MUD Master of Urban Design MDes Master of Arts in Design (with the College of Engineering) PhD in Architecture PhD in Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning PhD in City & Regional Planning

The largest of UC Berkeley's colleges and schools — encompassing three-quarters of its undergraduates and half of its faculty and graduate students — the College of Letters & Science is the great, big heart of Berkeley. With a choice of more than 80 majors along with tremendous opportunities to study broadly, L&S students can create their own paths to inquiry, discovery, and a bright future.

The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at the University of California, Berkeley, offers one of the strongest research and instructional programs in this field anywhere in the world. Our key strength is our array of cross-disciplinary, team-driven projects. The integration of Electrical Engineering (EE) and Computer Science (CS) forms the core, with strong interactions that extend into biological sciences, mechanical and civil engineering, physical sciences, chemistry, mathematics, and operations research. Our programs have been consistently ranked in the top three nationwide and worldwide by various organizations.

Founded in 1891, UC Berkeley Extension is the continuing education branch of the University of California, Berkeley. Today, Extension offers 1,500 courses each year, including online courses, along with more than 75 professional certificates and specialized programs of study in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Free and low-cost public events are also frequently held as part of Extension's service to the local community. UC Berkeley Extension—like all other UC Berkeley schools, colleges and departments—is accredited by WASC through the University.

Since its founding 50 years ago, the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism has graduated more than 2,000 students. Alumni have gone on to win virtually every major industry award and to staff–and run–the country’s top news organizations. Widely regarded as one of the country’s best journalism programs, it is also one of the only remaining two-year master of journalism programs in the United States and is the only graduate-level journalism program in the vast, publicly funded University of California system. The School’s core master’s program enrolls approximately 120 students, while a summer-only journalism minor serves another 300 undergraduates. Its Investigative Reporting Program routinely produces award-winning reports for national media outlets, and its UC Berkeley Advanced Media Institute (BAMI) offers certification courses in specialized training for mid-career professionals.

The School of Information is UC Berkeley’s newest professional school. Located in the center of campus, the I School is a graduate research and education community committed to expanding access to information and to improving its usability, reliability, and credibility while preserving security and privacy. This requires the insights of scholars from diverse fields — information and computer science, design, social sciences, management, law, and policy. Based in UC Berkeley’s historic South Hall, the I School is a fast-growing, multi-disciplinary collective of scholars and practitioners. The I School offers three professional master’s degrees and an academic doctoral degree. Our MIMS program trains students for careers as information professionals and emphasizes small classes and project-based learning. Our MIDS program trains data scientists to manage and analyze the coming onslaught of big data, in a unique high-touch online degree. Our MICS program prepares cybersecurity leaders with the technical skills and contextual knowledge necessary to develop solutions for complex cybersecurity challenges. Our Ph.D. program equips scholars to develop solutions and shape policies that influence how people seek, use, and share information.

At UC Berkeley School of Public Health, health equity and social justice are part of our DNA. For more than 75 years, we’ve been pushing boundaries and challenging the status quo. We believe that universities exist not only for the generation of knowledge and education of students, but for the betterment of our community and the world. In the next decade, we plan to harness our commitment to antiracism and community engagement to become the world’s leading school of public health for social impact. Berkeley Public Health is preparing the students in our 20+ graduate programs—as well as our healthy cohort of undergraduate students—to become public health changemakers. As future public health leaders, they will push forward our vision of the basic human right to a healthy life.

Sigma Eta Pi, founded in 2010, is the first entrepreneurship fraternity in the United States. Our mission is to transform individuals into starters who follow their passion, develop long lasting relationships, and create value through innovative pursuits. We are dedicated to building and harnessing human potential. As students of the University of California, Berkeley, we are right at the epicenter of innovation, and our members have become founders of renowned companies like Caviar and Blueprint. We are positively impacting people around the world, continuously innovating and improving. When our members first join the organization, they launch a venture their first semester; they work together in teams to ideate, build, and sustain a startup from scratch. This past year, our members founded a company called Spotlight that works with local businesses to improve their online presence, from making website to improving their Instagram content. Additionally, our members founded a nonprofit called Peoples Park Podcast, which shared stories of homelessness in Berkeley to help shed the stigma against the homeless. These are just a sampling of the varied and interesting companies started by SEP’ers. We aim to create an entrepreneurial environment at our school, hosting innovation competitions, bringing in founders for tech-talks, and starting an entrepreneurship mentorship program for high schools in our area. We are driven by passion and grounded in innovation.