Berkeley Minors (2024)

FAQs

Does UC Berkeley offer minors? ›

Yes. No one has to declare a “minor” at UCB. If you do a double major make it in different intellectual areas, French and statistics, art practice and sociology, not math and statistics or English and Comp Lit.

You are allowed to declare as many minors as will fit into your semester or unit limits.

At the University of California-Berkeley, the three most popular college majors students pursue are Computer Science, Econometrics and Quantitative Economics, and Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology.

You should also have a 3.9 GPA or higher. If your GPA is lower than this, you need to compensate with a higher SAT/ACT score. For a school as selective as UC Berkeley, you'll also need to impress them with the rest of your application.

It is extremely difficult to get accepted to UC Berkeley. The grade point averages of people who get accepted to UC Berkeley are in the top 10% of their class. People who successfully get into Berkeley also tend to have impressive extracurricular activities and college applications essays.

With approximately 13,000 undergraduate courses, labs, and sections to choose from (taught annually), you can create a rich and personal academic experience and still graduate in four years. You can double (or triple) major, study abroad, do research with faculty, and more.

While a double minor appears on a student's transcript, experts say it's not the standout point on a resume to an employer. "If a student is looking to land a job in a particular field, a minor typically won't help significantly," Maurantonio says.

A minor in Computer Science is available to all undergraduate students at Berkeley with a declared major, with the exception of EECS majors.

Graduate and professional programs

Berkeley has a "comprehensive" graduate program, with high coexistence with the programs offered to undergraduates, and offers interdisciplinary graduate programs with the medical schools at the University of California, San Francisco and Stanford University.

UC Berkeley is not an Ivy League school. There are only eight Ivy League schools: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale.

Can you minor in UC? ›

Who is eligible to add a Minor? You must be pursuing a baccalaureate degree if you wish to add a minor. It is up to the home college of that minor to accept a submission to add a minor (if different than your Home College).

A minor consists of a minimum of 75 points, including at least 45 points above 100-level, in a single subject chosen from Science, Arts, Commerce, Digital Screen, Health Sciences, Product Design, Sport, or Youth and Community Leadership degrees.

UCLA offers more than 90 minors, many of which you can pair in unexpected ways with majors. For instance, the food studies minor can be a nice complement to majors in chemistry, biology, communication and many more things.

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