Chenming Hu receiving National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Barack Obama in 2016

By the Numbers

Discover EECS through some of the facts and figures that describe our faculty, students and alumni, and see how our academic programs compare to those in other institutions.

Faculty

This is just a small sample of the many awards received by current and emeriti EECS faculty.

Entrepreneurial Culture

UC Berkeley is the #2 university for Venture Capitalist-backed undergraduate entrepreneurs worldwide
Berkeley EECS faculty and alumni have founded over 880 companies

Research

Number of research areas: 21
Number of EECS-affiliated centers and labs: over 60
Many interdisciplinary projects including collaborations with

Other departments at Cal: Berkeley Center for New Media, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Economics, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Integrative Biology, International Computer Science Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Neuroscience, Physics, Psychology, School of Information, School of Optometry, and Statistics
Government agencies: Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Army Research Office (ARO), California Department of Justice, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Energy (DOE), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives (MURI), National Institute of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), and Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Other universities: CMU, GaTech, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Penn State, Stanford, TU Berlin, UC San Diego, UC Santa Cruz, UIUC, UMD, UMich, University of Colorado Boulder, UT Austin, and UWash
Private companies: AMD, AT&T, Cray, Denso Corp, Globalfoundries, Google, HP, IBM, Intel, Mathworks, MEARS Technologies, Microelectronics Advanced Research Corp (MARCO), Micron Technology, National Instruments, National Semiconductor, Nokia, nVidia, Oracle, Pixar, Raytheon, Samsung, SRC, Sumitomo Electric Ltd, Sun Microsystems, Synopsys, Texas Instruments, Toyota, and Willow Garage Inc
Open source communities

US News Undergraduate Rankings

Electrical/Electronics/Communications Undergraduate Program (2020): 2
Computer Engineering Undergraduate Program (2020): 3
Engineering Undergraduate Programs (2020): 3

US News Graduate Rankings

Electrical/Electronic/Communications Engineering Graduate Program (2021): 1
Computer Engineering Graduate Program (2021): 2
Computer Science Graduate Program (2019): 1
Theory(2), Systems(3), Programming Languages(4), Artificial Intelligence(4)
College of Engineering Graduate Programs (2021): 3

Global Rankings

Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU) - 2019

Computer Science Rankings

CSRankings metric-based global overall ranking (2018-19): 4 (US: 4)

Theory: 4 (US: 4)
Systems: 7 (US: 6)
Artificial Intelligence: 8 (US: 4)
Interdisciplinary Areas: 9 (US: 8)

30 faculty with an H-Index* of 40 or above, including 10 who rank among the top 100 most-cited computer science scholars in the world.

*h-index is an author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar. The index is based on the set of the scientist's most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other publications

Number of Undergraduate Students

Count of number of undergraduate students for EE, CS, and total, by year from 2009 to 2018
Year	EECS BS Program	Computer Science BA Program (juniors/seniors only)	Total Undergraduates
2018	1,582	1,590	3,172
2017	1,406	1,451	2,857
2016	1,343	1,203	2,546
2015	1,312	906	2,218
2014	1,251	761	2,012
2013	1,296	482	1,778
2012	1,229	280	1,509
2011	1,155	224	1,379
2010	1091	179	1270
2009	991	142	1,133

Undergraduate Demographics

Percentage of freshman applicants admitted for the 2017-18 academic year: 6.9%
Average time to undergraduate degree: 7.89 semesters
Percentage of undergraduates who are international students: 15%

Bachelor's Degrees Awarded

Number of bachelor's degrees granted for EECS BS and Computer Science BA, by year from 2009-10 to 2017-18
Year	EECS BS	Computer Science BA	Total Bachelor's Degrees
2017-18	335	608	943
2016-17	392	557	949
2015-16	362	422	784
2014-15	367	330	697
2013-14	407	218	625
2012-13	329	165	493
2011-12	317	115	432
2010-11	263	117	380
2009-10	274	84	358

Number of Graduate Students

Count of number of graduate students for EE, CS, and total, by year from 2007 to 2018
Year	EE	CS	Total Graduate Students
2018	434	309	743
2017	462	285	747
2016	374	256	630
2015	383	261	644
2014	359	225	584
2013	316	238	554
2012	319	238	557
2011	321	238	559
2010	310	222	532
2009	316	220	536
2008	303	234	537
2007	304	219	523

Master's Degrees Awarded

The number of Master's degrees granted by degree type and by year, from 2010 to 2018
Year	5th Yr MS	MEng	2 Yr Terminal MS	2 Yr Non-terminal MS	Total Master's Awarded
2017-18	40	75	7	19	141
2016-17	22	28	16	13	79
2015-16	16	32	22	21	91
2014-15	6	58	15	23	102
2013-14	7	18	18	25	68
2012-13	12	N/A	19	27	58
2011-12	9	N/A	14	23	46
2010-11	7	N/A	11	37	55
2009-10	9	N/A	17	44	70

Ph.D. Degrees Awarded

Number of PhD degrees granted for EE, CS, and total by year from 2009-10 to 2017-18
Year	EE	CS	Total PhDs Awarded
2017-18	51	34	85
2016-17	39	29	68
2015-16	32	46	78
2014-15	47	18	65
2013-14	49	41	90
2012-13	39	33	72
2011-12	51	25	76
2010-11	45	31	76
2009-10	36	32	68

Master's Degrees Awarded in 2017-18: 141

Types of Master's Degrees from 2014 to 2018

Curriculum

Number of degree programs: 5 (BA, BS, MS, MEng, PhD)
Ranking for Best Blockchain University by CoinDesk: 2
CS 61A named one of the Five Best Computer Science Classes in the US by

Average Starting Salary

Class of 2017

Bachelor's: $108,250

Class of 2018

Master's: $110,000 - $119,999
PhD: $130,000 - $139,999

Other Metrics

Many distinguished EE Alumni and CS Alumni including 9 ACM A.M. Turing Award winners: Ken Thompson, Niklaus Wirth, Butler Lampson, Douglas Engelbart, Jim Gray, Leonard Adleman, Charles Thacker, Silvio Micali, and Shafi Goldwasser