Where do Berkeley undergrads go after graduating? (Specific names of schools and number of students) Is there a page where these are enlisted? I’m having a very hard time finding it and urls/links would be much appreciated.
What major?
Grad schools are listed at the end of the pdf files.
Chemistry.
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It’s important to note that a large number of students don’t answer these surveys. You can see that for chemistry in 2015, only 18/61 graduating students responded.
I would say that Berkeley’s biggest strength is in getting students into top Ph.D. programs. This is especially true in the College of Chemistry. I majored in chemical engineering (graduated a few years ago), but I got into every Ph.D. program I applied to – MIT, Caltech, Stanford, Princeton, etc. I had classmates who majored in chemistry that are now at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Yale, and others.
The Berkeley undergraduate curriculum is rigorous and difficult, but there is no better place if a Ph.D. is your ultimate goal.
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Thanks for the comment! I think I’m set on Berkeley. Thanks again for everyone’s help.
You still have to get the top grades at UCB to get into those top PhD programs mentioned above. The ones who responded to the surveys above are the one who got the top grades. Students who don’t perform as well go to less prestigious graduate programs or none at all. Keep in mind that UCB is very competitive
Few years ago, the son of an acquaintance of mine, with 3.7 GPA from Berkeley EECS/ME, applied to top ten graduate schools in the field, and he didn’t get into any of them. It gives you an idea of how competitive it is.
On grad school application - Below is an excerpt from an email message from a friend of mine, a professor at CoE. I had asked him whether it was wise to apply to a PhD program at the same undergrad school. Note the last sentence: “there is a big random element in getting admitted anywhere.”
I looked at the https://career.berkeley.edu/Survey/2015Majors post above. Thanks to the Pentaprism! There was a big difference between L & S CS graduates (8%) and EECS graduates (28%) going to graduate school. Does anyone have insight to explain why such a big difference? They basically studied the same CS and EE courses, only the humanity and science requirements are different between these two majors.
Just joking: Does taking more humanity courses make one less likely to go to graduate school?
Re: #7
That does depend on the specific department. The UCB chemical engineering department strongly believes in doing BS and PhD study at different schools. See http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/grad/cbe/faq .