Stanford Engineering now bigger than Berkeley Engineering

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Stanford now leads Berkeley in Engineering enrollments. The faculty size is approx same 233 for Berkeley and 240 for Stanford

https://registrar.stanford.edu/everyone/enrollment-statistics/enrollment-statistics-2016-17/school-engineering-enrollment-2016-17
http://engineering.berkeley.edu/about/facts-and-figures

For undergrads Stanford only reports students who have declared a major. Students declare towards the end of the sophomore year. Berkeley admits directly into COE so the number reported includes all 4 years. The Stanford data is from start of the fall semester. Assuming the same number of undeclared students will declare engineering, for apples to apples comparison a good approximately is to double the number of students who have declared engineering.

Stanford
Undergrads declared + currently undeclared, but expected to declare 1526+1526 = 3052.
Grads 3583
Total 6636

Berkeley
Undergrads 3,272
Grads 1,946
Total 5218

While the undergrad enrollment numbers are similar Stanford has about 2x more grads than Berkeley.

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These are some pretty interesting numbers. For one thing, Stanford has almost as many undergrad engineering majors as Berkeley, despite Berkeley having over 4x as many undergrads overall.

Of course, students have to apply by major at Berkeley, otherwise the numbers would no doubt be higher there.

Or looking at it another way, around 45% of Stanford undergrads are now engineering majors based on these numbers. A substantial increase over historic patterns at Stanford, I believe.

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@bluewater2015

. Berkeley’s engineering majors are at around 12% of undergrads.

. Yes, historically Stanford engineering has been about 20-25%.