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Applying For Graduate Admission
Next Admission Cycle: Fall Semester 2008 ONLY
Both Departmental and University applications must be electronically submitted by the following application deadlines:
Applications available on line on or about September 1, 2007 at the Graduate Division website
Departmental Questionnaire information is located at www.me.berkeley.edu/Grad/Areas/ME_Questionnaire_L.htm
Deadline for application
submission is Midnight, Pacific Standard Time, December 15, 2007.
Submit your application early. We do not accept late
applications for any reason.
Supporting data, such as transcripts, letters of recommendation, GRE and TOEFL scores should arrive no later than January 11, 2008.
Applications for Fall 2008, including the statement of purpose and recommendation letters, must be submitted on-line. Do not download or print the supplemental application form pdfs. The Mechanical Engineering Department has its own online process for the recommendation letters. All admissions data should be submitted online except original transcripts. We require one (1) official transcript from each college or university you have attended.
Please read the instructions under Required Data carefully.
Prospective students applying for graduate admission to the Department of Mechanical Engineering must complete and submit two separate forms:
1) A University of California at Berkeley Graduate Student Application.
2) A Department of Mechanical Engineering Graduate Study Questionnaire.
All forms must be submitted electronically via the Internet, as explained in the Electronic Submission Section.
Also, please note that you can apply to only one department.
Your application will be
considered complete only when all forms are
submitted electronically and all supporting documentation and
official test scores have been received.
APPLICATION PROCEDURES
The Fall 2008 application process is entirely online except for original transcripts. Please do not mail copies of the Statement of Purpose, GRE AND TOEFL scores, publications, resumes or letters of recommendation.
Directions for submitting the letters of recommendation online are included below. We require one (1) official transcript from each college or university you have attended. You will receive a confirmation email about a week after submitting your online application requesting you to go online and enter recommender information as stated below, and any URLs related to supplemental data, such as publications, resumes, and homepages.
All applications must be submitted through
the Berkeley campus'
on-line application site for graduate admissions.
The application includes
space for the email addresses, as well as names,
of the people writing your letters of recommendation.
These email addresses are required for
applications to the Mechanical Engineering department.
Please take care to ensure these email addresses,
as well as your own email address, are entered correctly.
Also, please be sure to waive or not waive your
rights to the letters of recommendation as the
letters cannot be submitted to your application
until these rights are either waived or not waived.
Electronic Submission:
Graduate Student Application:
Prospective students applying for graduate study in the Department of Mechanical Engineering must first complete and electronically submit a University of California at Berkeley Graduate Student Application by going to the following web site: http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/prospective/.
Please note:
1) The application is only considered submitted when you press the submit button at the bottom. The University will send you an email after the application has been received. If you do not receive the email within a couple of days of submission, please log on to your application and make sure you have submitted your application.
2) The University of California will supply you with a unique ID number when you complete and submit your on-line application. Please write this ID number down. You will need to enter this number when you complete the Department of Mechanical Engineering Graduate Study Questionnaire.
3) On the first page of the on-line application (under "Emphasis"), you will be asked to enter in preferential order your top two choices of Mechanical Engineering Disciplines. You should review the department website to determine your area of interest before entering your preferences.
4) Readmission: If you have ever been registered as a graduate student at Berkeley please complete a readmission form located at registrar.berkeley.edu/elecforms/ReadmGrad.pdf and mail to
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Student Service Office
6189 Etcheverry Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1742.
At the time you submit the form, please state which faculty has consented to be your Research Advisor and whether the Research Advisor or yourself will be responsible for funding.
5) Reactivation: If you submitted an application within the past two years, but did not register, you only need to complete and submit a new Form A. There is a $60 application fee for U.S. citizen or current permanent residents; for all others, the fee is $80. Fees are subject to change.
- Indicate on the form the most recent semester that you applied.
- You must meet all requirements and deadlines to be considered.
- You must also submit updated transcripts showing any work that has been completed since your previous application.
- Make sure that your GRE and/or TOEFL test scores meet current test date cutoffs.
Required Documents
Submission of Electronic Recommendation Letters
After you submit your application you will receive an acknowledgement via email from the MECHANICAL ENGINEERING department. It may take some time for the University to transfer the application to the MECHANICAL ENGINEERING department, so please be patient. The email acknowledgement will also contain instructions for you to complete your waivers for the letters of recommendation on-line. This step is required---we will not consider your application if it is not completed. Once the electronic waivers are completed, we will contact your letter writers by email with instructions for providing letters. Letters must be submitted electronically, and we encourage you to make your letter writers aware of this. We will notify you by email when we receive letters from your letter writers. Recommendation letters should arrive no later than January 11, 2008.
The Mechanical Engineering department does not require a GRE subject test. The General GRE Test consisting of the verbal, analytical writing and quantitative sections is required. If you have taken the General GRE test prior to Octobert 2003, you will need to retake the General GRE test. We will accept the computer-based or paper-based test.
Test results for the General GREs must be directed to 4833 (the Berkeley institution code) and to 1500 (the Department of Mechanical Engineering code).
We encourage you to take the test no later than the November administration to ensure that your scores arrive by the deadline, but we will also accept scores from the early December administration. GRE Scores should arrive no later than January 11, 2008.
The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)
Accepted TOEFL Test scores must be dated after June 2006.
Applicants from countries in which English is not the official
language must take the TOEFL and score at least
570 on the paper and pencil test, 230 on the computer-based test,
and 68 on the Next Generation TOEFL (iBT).
The institution code for Berkeley is 4833. There is no Department code for the
TOEFL. Again, your scores should arrive no later
than January 11, 2008.
Exception to Required TOEFL Examination
If you have completed at least one (1) year of full-time academic course work with grades of B or better in residence at a US university, you do not need to take a standardized test. Instead, you must submit an official transcript from the US university. The following courses will NOT fulfill this requirement:
Courses in English as a Second Language
Courses conducted in a language other than English
Courses that will be completed after you apply
Courses taken through distance learning or via the Web
Courses of a nonacademic nature
Official Transcripts
We require one (1) official transcript from each college or university you have attended. Please send sealed original transcripts of all University work. Transcripts not in English should include translations from the school that issued the original transcripts. Transcripts should arrive no later than January 11, 2008.
Send the transcripts to:
University of California at Berkeley
Department of Mechanical Engineering
6189 Etcheverry Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1742
All electronically submitted support information including your GRE and TOEFL scores, and letters of recommendation should be received by the Department by January 11, 2008. The only hardcopy document to be submitted by regular mail is an original transcript from your university. Applications that are incomplete by the time of review will not be competitive for admission.
THE DEPARTMENT QUESTIONNAIRE
After electronically submitting the graduate student application, prospective students must complete and electronically submit the Department of Mechanical Engineering Graduate Study Questionnaire no later than January 11, 2008.
In this questionnaire, you will be asked to select
your top choices for a combination of
Mechanical Engineering Discipline and Mechanical Engineering
Focus Area.
These will represent your areas of study and emphasis
during your graduate studies in Mechanical
Engineering at Berkeley. The main
purpose of this questionnaire is to guide us in
determining which faculty members are best suited
to review your application and consider you for a
Graduate Student Assistantship and/or Fellowship.
We encourage you to review the graduate academic program information that is contained in the questionnaire, while completing the questionnaire, as well as to visit the web sites of the faculty associated with the areas that best interest you.
Click here to complete and electronically submit a Graduate Student Questionnaire
Please note:
1) The Questionnaire is only considered submitted when you press the submit bottom at the end of the form.
2) You will need to enter the ID number that was assigned to you when you electronically submitted your Graduate Student Application.
Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Services e-mail:
mech@me.berkeley.edu
During our busiest time you may not receive a reply to your email questions sent to this address for several weeks. We ask that you remain patient and allow our staff to process the application materials. Prior to sending email you should review the Frequently Asked Questions at our department website. Most questions directed to this email address may be answered there. Questions regarding the receiving of documents will be answered by the automated service once our staff has had sufficient time to process all materials.
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