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Among Berkeley engineering alumnae are a 2018 Nobel laureate, a 2008 Turing Award winner, a 2012 Turing Award winner, the first woman to receive a bachelor's degree in engineering from an American university, and the co-founders of Marvell Technology, Atheros Communications, and many other technology companies.
UC Berkeley has a reputation for rigorous grading policies. UC Berkeley College of Engineering guidelines state that no more than 17% of the students in any given class may be awarded A grades, and that the class GPA should be in the range of 2.7 to 2.9 out of a maximum of 4.0 grade points. [26]
Some high schools, to reflect the varying skill required for different course levels, will give higher numerical grades for difficult courses, often referred to as a weighted GPA. For example, two common conversion systems used in honors and Advanced Placement courses are: A = 5 or 4.5; B = 4 or 3.5 [5] C = 3 or 2.5; D = 2 or 1.5; F = 0 [19]
The 25th and 75th undergraduate GPA percentiles were 3.65 and 3.92, respectively, with a median of 3.81. ... According to Berkeley's official ABA-required disclosures ...
The following law schools have adopted a grading system which does not allow for the calculation of a comparable median GPA on a 4.0 scale, if any GPA is recorded at all: Berkeley Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law – pass/no pass system with 10% of first-years receiving pass with high honors and 30% of first-year students ...
UC Berkeley law school announced if would withdraw from U.S. News & World Report's closely followed evaluations of higher education institutions.
UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons plans to 'question the status quo' as he takes the reins of one of the nation's top public research universities.
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) [11] [12] is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States.. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley, it is the state's first land-grant university and is the founding campus of the University of California sys