Office for Graduate Diversity

The Graduate Division’s Office for Graduate Diversity (OGD) supports both prospective and current UC Berkeley graduate students, with a focus on fostering a thriving, inclusive community. While OGD serves all students, it is especially committed to those historically underrepresented in graduate education—such as undocumented, low-income, and first-generation college students.

OGD offers comprehensive support including:

  • Admissions guidance
  • Academic and financial guidance
  • Peer mentoring and networking opportunities
  • Professional development and retention-focused programming
  • Access to key campus resources

In collaboration with faculty, staff, and the Division of Equity and Inclusion, OGD is dedicated to creating a safe, welcoming space for all students

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Supporting Students & Departments Across Campus

Inclusive Excellence Hub

The new Inclusive Excellence Hub at UC Berkeley is a unique, welcoming venue where underrepresented graduate students can find camaraderie and build multi-disciplinary networks of their peers.

Inclusive Excellence Hub

American Indian Graduate Program

AIGP assists Native and Indigenous graduate students throughout their academic career, providing mentoring, and connecting students with campus organizations and resources.

American Indian Graduate Program

UndocuGrads

Undocumented graduate students can connect with the UndocuGrads team for mentorship, resources and community.

UndocuGrads

STEM*FYI

STEM*FYI consists of informal gatherings, beneficial workshops, social events, and the opportunity to build a strong, diverse community of graduate STEM scholars.

STEM*FYI

Path to the Professoriate

P2P engages up to 100 first-year Ph.D. students from underrepresented backgrounds in workshops and structured activities around demystifying the route to the Assistant Professorship.

Path to the Professoriate

Meet with a Diversity and Community Fellow

The Diversity and Community Fellows work to advance and implement the diversity and inclusion goals of the Office for Graduate Diversity and the Graduate Division. Schedule a meeting with a fellow.

Meet our Diversity and Community Fellows

Preparing Students for Graduate School

Inclusive Excellence Summer Research Experience

A fully-funded 8-week program offering rigorous research opportunities while addressing challenges and opportunities in graduate diversity. It supports students from historically underrepresented backgrounds nationwide.

Inclusive Excellence Summer Research Experience

Graduate Diversity Admissions Fair

Berkeley’s annual virtual Graduate Diversity Admissions Fair is hosted by the Office of Graduate Diversity and Graduate Admissions. Learn more about the application process, funding opportunities and get a chance to meet departments in your area of interest.

Graduate Admissions Diversity Fair

American Indian Graduate Program

American Indian Graduate Program (AIGP) provides direct assistance to incoming and prospective Indigenous/Native American students, with financial aid information, advice and resources to guide you toward the best decision to advance your academic career.

Support for Prospective American Indian Graduate Students

UndocuGrads

OGD’s UndocuGrads team is available to support prospective undocumented graduate students and their journey to graduate school.

Support for Prospective Undocumented Graduate Students

UC Berkeley Undergraduates Considering Graduate School

Whether you hope to continue your studies at UC Berkeley or explore other graduate school programs, OGD offers multiple programs to help you examine your options and prepare you with the mentoring and tools to select, apply, and enroll in graduate school.

UC Berkeley Undergraduates Considering Graduate School

Office for Graduate Diversity Staff

Connect with the team that manages our programs.

Meet our team

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Initiatives

First Generation Low Income Graduate Student Initiative

Connect. Build Community. Thrive. The Office for Graduate Diversity’s Inclusive Excellence Hub has launched a collaborative partnership with FGLI Grads Group, a student organization that focuses on building connections, networking, and thriving opportunities that support first-generation and/or low-income graduate students at UC Berkeley. The Inclusive Excellence Hub is the home base for the FGLI Grads…
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Data Science for Social Justice Workshop

How to Apply Applications for DSSJ 2024 are closed. “Knowing that lifting up our own communities is what motivates us as diverse intellectuals and scholars, we centered the Workshop not just on data science, but what one can do with the data science to bring about justice or inadvertently cause injustice.” – Claudia von Vacano,…
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Neurodiversity Task Force

About the Task Force At Berkeley, we believe that we cannot build an inclusive learning environment if it is not sensitive and responsive to the needs of our neurodivergent graduate students. This Task Force is our first step in that effort. Building on presentations from national experts at the cutting edge of neurodiversity research and…
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Leadership in Graduate Diversity Awards

The Cynthia Ladd-Viti Leadership in Graduate Diversity Award and the Carla Trujillo Leadership in Graduate Diversity Award recognize and reward graduating doctoral or professional school students’ contributions to diversifying the academy during their graduate careers and beyond. Graduate Division established the two annual awards in 2021 as part of its anti-racism initiatives, in direct response…
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Graduate Diversity Pilot Program

Advancing Graduate Diversity At Cal The UC Berkeley Graduate Diversity Pilot Program provides funding to UC Berkeley departments to address issues of bias, foster healthy and respectful departmental climates, and advance equity, inclusion, and diversity. Established in July 2020 by the Graduate Division, along with other anti-racism and diversity initiatives, the program awards grants totaling…

UC Berkeley Diversity Contacts and Additional Resources