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unitid 110635 · Berkeley, CA · public 4-year · city (midsize)

University of California-Berkeley

Public university in Berkeley, California

founded
1868
enrollment 2023
48,230
predominant degree
Bachelor's
Campus of University of California-Berkeley

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The University of California, Berkeley is a public land-grant research university in the Southside and Northside neighborhoods of Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley, it is the state's first land-grant university and the founding campus of the University of California system. wikipedia rev 1364472066 ↗

scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years

The record

admission rate

11%

1st pctl among public 4-years

undergraduates

33,068

96th pctl among public 4-years

Pell share

29%

undergrads on Pell grants

40th pctl among public 4-years

completion

93%

finish within 150% time

99th pctl among public 4-years

sticker cost / yr

$45,619

100th pctl among public 4-years

avg net price / yr

$13,481

after aid, aided students

56th pctl among public 4-years

median earnings, 10 yr

$92,446

after entry, Title IV students

99th pctl among public 4-years

median grad debt

$13,000

23rd pctl among public 4-years

what families actually pay

Cost

Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.

Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort

Families earning under $30k paid $5,311 per year after aid.

Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).

Who enrolls, by family income

  • 0-30k
    37%
  • 30-48k
    17%
  • 48-75k
    16%
  • 75-110k
    not reported
  • 110k+
    not reported
Median family income
$31,227
First-generation students
35%
In-state tuition & fees
$16,347

earnings · debt · programs

Outcomes

Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid

Ten years out, the median graduate earns 7.1× the median graduate debt.

Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.

What programs pay — top fields of study

programgradsearn 5 yrdebt
Computer Science.994$225,140$13,900
Economics.909$125,636$13,000
Cell/Cellular Biology and Anatomical Sciences.761$70,181$14,000
Computer and Information Sciences, General.737—$13,550
Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.637——
Information Science/Studies.599$214,399—
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.480$240,462$14,437
Natural Resources Conservation and Research.464$89,932$12,988
Business Administration, Management and Operations.428$145,003$12,195
Political Science and Government.418$78,026$13,000
Research and Experimental Psychology.390—$12,111
Law.336$188,806—

— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.

annual scorecard files, 1996–2026

Trajectory

Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.

Admission rate

Price per year

  • sticker
  • net

Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry

Undergraduates

wikidata · 18,567 people recorded

Memory

Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.

Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field

Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade

People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.

Wikipedia attention

monthly article views since 2015

most recorded occupationsresearcher (4,609) · university teacher (2,885) · computer scientist (830) · mathematician (713) · writer (703) · basketball player (567) · economist (538) · physicist (455)

Nobel laureates who studied here

  • Harold Urey Chemistry 1934
  • Joseph Erlanger Medicine 1944
  • William Giauque Chemistry 1949
  • Glenn Theodore Seaborg Chemistry 1951
  • Selman Abraham Waksman Medicine 1952
  • Willis Lamb Physics 1955
  • Willard Libby Chemistry 1960
  • Hamilton Smith Medicine 1978
  • Lawrence Klein Economics 1980
  • Henry Taube Chemistry 1983
  • Yuan T. Lee Chemistry 1986
  • Thomas Cech Chemistry 1989
  • Octavio Paz Literature 1990
  • Kary Mullis Chemistry 1993
  • Douglass North Economics 1993
  • Mario Molina Chemistry 1995
  • Robert Curl Chemistry 1996
  • Steven Chu Physics 1997
  • Robert B. Laughlin Physics 1998
  • Alan J. Heeger Chemistry 2000
  • Daniel Kahneman Economics 2002
  • David Gross Physics 2004
  • Thomas Schelling Economics 2005
  • John C. Mather Physics 2006
  • Andrew Fire Medicine 2006
  • Carol Greider Medicine 2009
  • Thomas J. Sargent Economics 2011
  • Christopher A. Sims Economics 2011
  • Adam Riess Physics 2011
  • Saul Perlmutter Physics 2011
  • David J. Wineland Physics 2012
  • Barry C. Barish Physics 2017
  • Frances Arnold Chemistry 2018
  • David Julius Medicine 2021
  • Carolyn Bertozzi Chemistry 2022
  • Gary Ruvkun Medicine 2024
  • David Baker Chemistry 2024
  • John M. Martinis Physics 2025

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Provenance

  • U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
  • Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
  • Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
  • Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
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  • Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1364472066), CC BY-SA 4.0.