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    The Graduate Division serves more than 13,000 students in over 100 graduate degree programs. We are here to help you from the time you are admitted until you complete your graduate program.

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    We're thrilled you're considering Berkeley for your graduate study. We offer more than 100 programs for master's, professional, and doctoral students to pursue their dreams.

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    Working toward obtaining your graduate degree at Berkeley is an exciting and challenging endeavor, but funding your graduate education shouldn’t be your greatest challenge.

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    We're here to support you as you progress through your degree, and help you understand the policies and procedures that inform your graduate education.

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    GradPro, the Graduate Writing Center, and the GSI Teaching & Resource Center can support you in your academic and professional development at all stages of your degree program and in preparing for your career.

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    The Office for Graduate Diversity provides support and services for prospective and continuing students in an effort to support and sustain a more diverse graduate student community.

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    Your gift allows us to deliver an inclusive, world-class experience to graduate students, so they can make a difference at Berkeley and beyond.

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April 2021

Diversity and Community Fellow leads new admits on a campus tour holding STEM sign.

Apply to be a Graduate Diversity & Community Fellow in the Graduate Division

The Graduate Diversity & Community Fellowship application is open. Apply by May 2, 2025 for a $7,500 stipend.

Take the UC Graduate Student Experience Survey

We want to hear your thoughts and ideas on your overall experience at Berkeley in order to better serve our graduate and…

Antiracism in the Academy Seminar — 4/29/21

The focal point of this seminar will be bringing to light those modes of praxis as tangible tools for implementation that have…

Lisa García Bedolla

Acknowledging traumatic events, and two announcements

Dear Graduate Student Community These are difficult times for our whole campus community and this past week has been particularly exhausting for…

Office for Graduate Diversity opportunities, including employment

Tutors for the Firebaugh Research Scholars Program The Office for Graduate Diversity (OGD) is currently recruiting 2-3 Graduate Student Tutors for the Firebaugh…

Join our 2021 Mardi-Grad Send-Off!

Please join us to celebrate and commemorate our URM graduate students who will be graduating from UC Berkeley this year, as well…

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Announcing Brandi Wilkins Catanese as New Associate Dean of the Graduate Divison

We are thrilled to announce that Brandi Wilkins Catanese, Associate Professor in the departments of African American Studies and Theater, Dance, and…

Design Conversation with Ahmed Ansari — 4/23

Join the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation on Friday, April 23 from noon to 1 p.m. for our final Design Conversations speaker of…

ARCS Poetry and the Senses Fellowship

The Arts Research Center invites all graduate students to apply to our Poetry and the Senses Fellowship. Thanks to a generous multi-year…

Science at Cal Series Showcases Graduate Research

Science at Cal regularly hosts Grounds For Science, a unique public science talk series organized by and featuring UC Berkeley graduate students.…

Remote Teaching and Digital Learning Resources for GSIs

We’ve curated centralized resources to support Graduate Student Instructors in addition to the numerous trainings and support offered by our GSI Teaching…

CRRSA Act and Emergency Funding for Graduate Students

Dear Graduate Student Community, This message is to inform you about financial resources available from the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations…

Double-Occupancy Rooms Available at International House

A double-occupancy room at I-House. Due to a fantastic response to the upcoming reopening of International House, the number of confirmed offers for residency,…

Library Updates: Study reservations at Moffitt Library, and publishing access news

Study Space at Moffitt Library Reserve study space at Moffitt Library! Current UC Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students may reserve study space…

Laura Belik: Constructions of Space and their Multiple Memories

Laura Belik, a fourth-year Architecture PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, looks at the spatial relations of memory and power within the migration…

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Margiana Petersen-Rockney: Food Systems Adapting (Or Not) to Climate Change

Margiana Petersen-Rockney, a 5th-year PhD student at UC Berkeley, was homeschooled on her mom’s diversified dairy goat farm in Massachusetts until she…

Ph.D. Student Kathy Shield’s Groundbreaking Research on Radioactivity

Ph.D. student Kathy Shields working in a campus lab.Photographer: Marilyn Sargent   “I kind of joke that nuclear engineering is like any…

There are still a few FREE classes left for the Berkeley Art Studio’s Spring virtual session!

Thanks to the Student Technology Fund, eligible graduate students may sign up for design and digital photography classes for free. Pre-recorded sessions…

UC-National Laboratory In-Residence Graduate Fellowship – 6/3/21

The UC-National Lab In-Residence Graduate Fellowships provide support for doctoral graduate students to conduct in-residence research at Los Alamos or Lawrence Livermore…

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