UC Berkeley Quick Facts

Fall 2022 Enrollment

By Ethnicity

  • 32,479 Total Undergraduates
    • 12,926 Asian
    • 6,605 White
    • 6,306 Chicanx/Latinx
    • 1,233 African American/Black
    • 143 Native American/Alaska Native
    • 55 Pacific Islander
    • 1,205 Decline to State
    • 4,006 International
  • 12,828 Total Graduate Students
    • 2,680 Asian
    • 3,616 White
    • 1,218 Chicanx/Latinx
    • 678 African American/Black
    • 67 Native American/Alaska Native
    • 19 Pacific Islander
    • 588 Decline to State
    • 3,962 International

By Gender Identity

  • 32,479 Total Undergraduates
    • 17,808 Women
    • 14,183 Men
    • 265 Nonbinary
    • 223 Decline to State
  • 12,828 Total Graduate Students
    • 6,166 Women
    • 6,459 Men
    • 98 Nonbinary
    • 105 Decline to State

For more detail, see Fall Enrollment Data for New Undergraduates (updated each Fall term), Enrollment Demographic Trends (updated each Spring term), and Enrollment History (updated each Fall term). Fall enrollment data comes from UC Berkeley's student census, which is collected immediately after the 5th Friday of instruction each Fall semester and reported to UC's Office of the President.

2022-23 Degree Recipients

  • 8,849 Bachelor's
  • 4,380 Master's/Professional
  • 840 Doctoral

This section shows degree recipients, excluding any rescinded degrees, for the 2022-23 academic year: Summer 2022, Fall 2022, and Spring 2023. For more detail, see Degrees Recipients by Major and Demographics.

Undergraduate One-Year Retention Rate

  • 96% of Fall 2021 new first-time college entrants returned in Fall 2022
  • 94% of Fall 2021 new transfer entrants returned in Fall 2022

For more detail, see the Undergraduate Graduation & Retention Rates dashboard. One-year retention counts students who are enrolled (or, in very rare cases, have already graduated) in the semester that is one year after they first entered the university.

Undergraduate Graduation Rates

  • Of new first-time college students who entered in Fall 2016
    • 81% graduated within 4 years
    • 88% graduated within 4.5 years
    • 92% graduated within 5 years
    • 94% graduated within 6 years
  • Of new transfer students who entered in Fall 2018
    • 63% graduated within 2 years
    • 80% graduated within 2.5 years
    • 88% graduated within 3 years
    • 92% graduated within 4 years

For more detail on combined Fall and Spring entrants, see the Undergraduate Graduation & Retention Rates dashboard. Graduation timeframes are elapsed time, not enrolled time. Spring and Summer graduations are grouped together in this data.

2022-23 Undergraduate Admissions

  • First-Time College Applicants
    • 128,230 applied
    • 14,568 of those were admitted
    • 6,791 of those submitted a statement of intent to register
  • Transfer Applicants
    • 19,356 applied
    • 5,131 of those were admitted
    • 3,004 of those submitted a statement of intent to register
  • Total Undergraduate Applicants
    • 147,586 applied
    • 19,699 of those were admitted
    • 9,795 of those submitted a statement of intent to register

This data represents final Fall+Spring totals at the end of each annual undergraduate admissions cycle. It may therefore differ slightly from other numbers published earlier in the year.