Undergraduate Admissions
Continuing Berkeley students | Freshman applicants | Transfer applicants

• Continuing Berkeley students
  Current UC Berkeley students may apply to ES by completing a "Petition to Change College or Major" and the Environmental Sciences application. Both forms are available from the ES advisor. Applicants should have completed at least two of the lower division ES courses and be enrolled in a third.

• Freshman applicants to UC Berkeley
  Undergraduate admission is directed by Cal's Office of Undergraduate Admission and Relations with Schools. Freshman admission is highly competitive. As part of the application process, applicants may select Environmental Sciences in CNR as their major. Students who selected ES in the College of Natural Resources as their major enter the university as declared ES majors. The College of Natural Resources does not review the files for freshman admission. Questions about freshman admission to UC Berkeley should be directed to the Office of Undergraduate Admission and Relations with Schools.

• Transfer applicants to UC Berkeley
  Transfer student admission is also directed by Cal's Office of Undergraduate Admission and Relations with Schools. Transfer students who apply to the College of Natural Resources must apply to a major. The College of Natural Resources does not admit transfer students as "Undeclared."

  For admission to Environmental Sciences in CNR, students must complete the Environmental Sciences lower division biology requirements, chemistry requirements, math requirements, and, if possible, the physics, economics, and environmental sciences requirements. Use Assist.org to find articulated courses for California community colleges. In addition, applicants from California community colleges should complete IGETC. Students who wish to transfer from somewhere other than a California community college should contact the ES advisor if they need help determining the appropriate prerequisite courses.

  Transfer applicants will be evaluated based on the strength of their academic preparation including the number of fulfilled requirements, the grade point average in the required courses, and their cumulative GPA.
  

Graduate Admissions
Although there is no graduate program in Environmental Sciences at UC Berkeley, the university offers many graduate degree programs that focus on the environment. Visit the UC Berkeley Graduate Division's home page for information about graduate study at Cal. A complete list of graduate degree programs at UC Berkeley is available here.

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Environmental Sciences
University of California, Berkeley
260 Mulford Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-3100
Phone: 510-643-9479
Fax: 510-643-3132
email: es-help@nature.berkeley.edu

Modification Date: 02/01/2005