Are the engineering colleges of UC Berkeley and UCLA significantly harder to get into compared to the college of letters and science?
I’m planning on a major in some form of engineering or computer science, or maybe even physics. But if my chances of getting in to the college of letters and science are much greater, I might do a cs/physics double or major/minor.
I do enjoy technical courses, and I would find the requirements of the college of engineering a lot more enjoyable to fulfill than say humanities/english courses.
Also is it possible to transfer to the college of engineering once accepted into the college of letter and science?
FYI: I’m an international student if that makes any difference.
They don’t break out the statistics for the Engineering schools separately (that I’ve seen anyway). The general view is that the stats in those schools are higher than for the College of Letters and Science, and the acceptance rates are lower.
As far as being an international, the statistics at UCB and UCLA are grim; they are the two UCs that are known globally so they get the most applications and hence very low acceptance rates. You would be much better off to include UCSD, Davis, or Irvine, which have comparatively high acceptances for internationals- even higher than for California residents!
If you search UCLA’s website, they have statistics broken down by schools and by major w/in Eng’g. I saw it when my daughter was applying for Fall 2014. At UCLA, Eng’g has a lower acceptance rate than Arts/Sciences. I imagined this is true with Cal as well.
For Berkeley, the engineering school received 19527 application last year and admitted 2223 (11.38%).
For UCLA, the engineering schools received 19347 application last year and admitted 2593 (13.4%).
^Thanks for posting; I hadn’t seen that site. For yucks I went through all of the UCs. Here are the engineering acceptance rates for 2014 listed by ASEE (the American Society for Engineering Education). The data appears to have been self-reported in a similar fashion to the Common Data Set.
I have followed that site for a couple years. Their data are accurate although some are from enrolled freshmen instead of admission. It was funny that UMich CoE messed up their admission stat data earlier this year (by mixing 2013 and 2014 data) on their own website while this ASEE site showed the correct data. So it may even be better than the official one.
