<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Does anyone know what the least engineering major at Cal is? (in terms of admission competitiveness). I was trying to find some stats about the engineering majors and their acceptance rates but i couldnt find it.</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>I’ve heard there’s a shortage of Nuke E because not many people are interested in it, but I don’t know if that means it’s not competitive.</p>
<p>Not sure if its different for Freshmen and transfer, but I know the transfer rate for Environmental Engineering was 38% last year.</p>
<p>oh wow thank you. so Civil Engineering isn’t the easiest E major as many people say?</p>
<p>^isn’t Berkeley’s undergrad Civil Eng major ranked 1 in the nation? Shouldn’t that make it hard to get in unless not many people apply for that major I suppose.</p>
<p>That’s right ranked number 1 in undergrad and grad school in the nation and the world.</p>
<p>Transfer rate of 38% for one year doesn’t mean anything. Sometimes it is 100% acceptance and sometimes it is only 1~2 people who manage to transfer in. And frankly, I think every single branch in CoE is as competitive as it can get. Every engineering department has world-renowned professors and top-notch students.</p>
<p>No branch of the CoE has 100% acceptance any year. That’s absurd.</p>
<p>yes it does. ask one the advisors and they’ll say there are occasional 100% acceptance for transfers from other colleges.</p>
<p>If by “other colleges” you mean “each individual college”, then of course if you look long enough you’ll find 1 college that has a transfer rate of 100%, because only 1 student applied and they got in. But THAT statistic doesn’t mean anything. </p>
<p>What I said was that there has never been a case where one major in the CoE has had 100% acceptance rate. Over 200 people apply to each major, you really think they’re gonna let EVERYBODY in?</p>
<p>when I meant by other colleges, I mean L&S, CoC, and CNR: Transfer within Berkeley! And it certainly isn’t 200 people.</p>
<p>I don’t see how transfers within Berkeley are relevant at all… the OP was asking about admissions rates, not change of major rates. Read his post next time. </p>
<p>And yes, I believe it probably averages out to over 200 students per major. Why? Well, at UCLA, there are about 1,800 transfer applicants within 9 majors, which is about 200 students per major. At UCLA, Engineering students only constitute 6% of the undergraduate student body, while at UC Berkeley it constitutes about 11%. Considering the fact they also have about the same number of undergraduates, you can say that a considerable more amount of students will be applying to Berkeley’s engineering program. </p>
<p>Finally, you can’t say that all Engineering majors are equally difficult to transfer into. EECS is known to be one of the most competitive, as is Computational Engineering Science, while Environmental Engineering is known to be one of the least competitive.</p>