UC Berkeley Quick Facts

Fall 2024 Enrollment

By Ethnicity

  • 33,070 Total Undergraduates
    • 13,416 Asian Non-Underrepresented
    • 6,880 Chicanx/Latinx
    • 6,584 White
    • 1,351 African American/Black
    • 182 Native American/Alaska Native
    • 59 Pacific Islander
    • 51 Asian Underrepresented
    • 1,265 Decline to State
    • 3,282 International
  • 12,812 Total Graduate Students
    • 2,924 Asian Non-Underrepresented
    • 1,179 Chicanx/Latinx
    • 3,343 White
    • 682 African American/Black
    • 73 Native American/Alaska Native
    • 19 Pacific Islander
    • 5 Asian Underrepresented
    • 553 Decline to State
    • 4,034 International

By Gender Identity

  • 33,070 Total Undergraduates
    • 18,020 Women
    • 14,104 Men
    • 550 Nonbinary
    • 396 Decline to State
  • 12,812 Total Graduate Students
    • 6,085 Women
    • 6,320 Men
    • 240 Nonbinary
    • 167 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.

2023-24 Degree Recipients

  • 8,532 Bachelor's
  • 4,297 Master's/Professional
  • 824 Doctoral

This section shows degree recipients, excluding any rescinded degrees, for the 2023-24 academic year: Summer 2023, Fall 2023, and Spring 2024. For more detail, see Degrees Recipients by Major and Demographics.

Undergraduate One-Year Retention Rate

  • 97% of Fall 2022 new freshman entrants returned in Fall 2023
  • 95% of Fall 2022 new transfer entrants returned in Fall 2023

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 freshman students who entered in Fall 2017
    • 81% graduated within 4 years
    • 87% graduated within 4.5 years
    • 91% graduated within 5 years
    • 93% graduated within 6 years
  • Of new transfer students who entered in Fall 2019
    • 60% graduated within 2 years
    • 75% graduated within 2.5 years
    • 87% graduated within 3 years
    • 91% 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.

2023-24 Undergraduate Admissions

  • Freshman Applicants
    • 125,917 applied
    • 14,715 of those were admitted
    • 6,707 of those submitted a statement of intent to register
  • Transfer Applicants
    • 19,336 applied
    • 5,550 of those were admitted
    • 3,025 of those submitted a statement of intent to register
  • Total Undergraduate Applicants
    • 145,253 applied
    • 20,265 of those were admitted
    • 9,732 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, for freshman and transfer applicants. It may therefore differ slightly from other numbers published earlier in the year.