Graduate study in transportation at the University of California, Berkeley prepares you for a professional, teaching, and research career. Emphasis is on the acquisition of advanced knowledge concerning planning, design, operations, maintenance, rehabilitation, performance, and evaluation of transportation systems, including their economic and public policy aspects. The program stresses development of analytic, problem-solving, design, and management skills suitable for public and private sector professional work.
Transportation Engineering faculty with diverse backgrounds and research interests, including emeriti professors, teach transportation courses. In addition, faculty from City and Regional Planning, Economics, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Business Administration, Political Science, and other departments offer courses related to transportation.
Students also have the opportunity to work and interact with research staff at the Institute of Transportation Studies.
Minimum admission requirements:
1. A bachelor's degree from an accredited institution or recognized equivalent.
2. Sufficient undergraduate education for graduate work in your chosen field.
3. A satisfactory scholastic average, with a minimum grade-point average (GPA) of 3.0 (B) for application consideration.
4. Score of the general Graduate Record Examination (GRE) taken during the past five years. CEE does not require a GRE subject test but the General GRE Test is required. Both the "Old" GRE and the "Revised" GRE are accepted.
5. International applicants: A minimum score of 90/120 iBT (230 CBT, 570 PBT) on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), taken during the past 2 years, is required by the University to meet the English Language Proficiency requirement.
Prerequisites:
1 year of college-level calculus;
1 year of college-level physical science, including a physics course on mechanics and waves (e.g., Physics 7A);
1 semester engineering-level probability and statistics;
1 semester elementary linear algebra.