<p>The department of Engineering has about 200 slots each year. This year, they’re reducing it to about 160 due to the budget cut. The other schools that normally send more than 5 students each year to the EECS department are Michigan, Cornell, MIT, Stanford, Caltech. Berkeley normally have a few more students than the other schools. This is coming from a current PhD student. So there’s no reason to believe that Berkeley doesn’t want its own students.</p>