Transferring to EECS
To be considered for admission to UC Berkeley as a transfer student, you must meet both the UC Berkeley requirements and the requirements for the College of Engineering. You must have earned 60 semester units by the end of the spring term prior to fall enrollment and be UC eligible before your file will be forwarded to the College of Engineering for review. If you are not sure if you are UC eligible, you should visit UC Freshman Admission and UC Transfer Admission.
The main criteria for admission to the College of Engineering is grade point average (GPA), completion of at least 80% of the lower division admission requirements by the end of the spring term prior to fall enrollment and the personal statement (detailing interest in the intended major, influencing experiences, goals, etc.). Therefore, it is to the applicant's benefit to complete the courses in circuits, data structures, and C++ or Java. It should also be noted that we give preference to California Community College applicants.
Lower division admission requirements for EECS are:
- one year calculus: UCB Math 1A, 1B
- courses in mutivariable calculus, differential equations and linear algebra: UCB Math 53, 54
- one course in discrete math or statistics: UCB Math 55 or Stat 20
- two courses of calculus based physics: UCB Physics 7A, 7B
- one course in natural science from the following: UCB Chem 1A, Chem 1B, Physics 7C, Bio 1A, and Bio 1B
- one course in circuits: UCB EE 40
- one course in data structures AND a course in C++ or Java: UCB CS 61B
- one course in reading and composition: UCB English 1A (a second course may be required if you are not UC eligible).
To determine which courses at your school (if at a California Community College) are equivalent to UC Berkeley's, you can use the ASSIST web site. Unfortunately, we only have articulation agreements with the California Community Colleges. If you have attended a four-year or non-California Community College I can only suggest you check the course description in our General Catalog on line to see if it is similar to your course. Usually, we will give credit for admission purposes if the courses are similar, however, you would need to have the course officially evaluated by the department after you are accepted to determine subject credit to be given. Be sure to be as descriptive as possible when listing the course on the application. Caution should be taken when comparing quarter unit courses with our semester unit courses as sometimes two quarter unit courses are needed to cover the topics of one semester unit course.
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