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PREPARE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Ever dream of creating new technology, starting your own company or taking a leading role in industry? In the UC Berkeley Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology program you’ll graduate with the technical expertise and business knowledge needed to advance your career and drive innovation forward.

BERKELEY M.E.T. ADVANTAGE INTEGRATED CURRICULUM Study business, entrepreneurship, and technology while gaining hands-on practice. Students use labs and tools for prototyping, fabrication, and collaboration including the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship.

AVANTHIKA RAMESH EECS + BUSINESS, CLASS OF 2021 As a graduate of the UC Berkeley Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology (M.E.T.) program’s inaugural class, Avanthika Ramesh leveraged its dualdegree curriculum to fast-track her career as a tech leader and entrepreneur. Graduating from the Haas School of Business and the College of Engineering in just 3 years, she gained the technical depth and business acumen required for high-impact roles. This interdisciplinary foundation propelled her into AI product leadership and strategy at Salesforce—where she became the youngest Senior Director at age 25, served as an AI keynote speaker at 15+ global events, and spearheads the APM Program. Beyond her corporate leadership, Avanthika co-founded HiFive Tutoring and secured admission to Wharton’s MBA program through the Moelis Advance Access Program—embodying M.E.T.’s vision of bridging technical innovation with executive leadership. Avanthika is also a member of the Berkeley Haas Dean’s Alumni Board.

INDUSTRY CONNECTIONS AND INTERNSHIPS With a robust engineering and business alumni network, students gain unparalleled access to internships and career coaching with exciting technology and business employers worldwide. SILICON VALLEY PROXIMITY Live amid the Bay Area’s innovation ecosystem while networking with leading investors and technologists. STUDENT COHORT Join a tight-knit community of thinkers, innovators, and doers who are involved in student clubs and organizations. The program’s small size allows for interaction with classmates, professors and industry partners in a dedicated M.E.T. collaboration space. VENTURE CAPITAL AND ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION Budding entrepreneurs can access seed funding as well as in-kind services to launch and grow new ventures. Our students participate in simulations, experiential talks and networking events held on campus year-round. WORLD-CLASS FACULTY AND STUDENTS Berkeley Engineering and the Haas School of Business are ranked among the top three undergraduate programs in the country by U.S. News & World Report.

ALEX ZHAO EECS + BUSINESS, CLASS OF 2021 UC Berkeley’s Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology (M.E.T.) program provided Alex Zhao with a dual foundation in Business Administration and Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS). This technical and strategic background— honed as a Watershed Software Engineer, Kleiner Perkins Fellow, and Schwarzman Scholar— empowered him to translate complex technologies into legal and regulatory frameworks. Following an internship with the New York Attorney General’s Bureau of Internet and Technology, Zhao applied his systems-level perspective to legal advocacy. Today, as President of the Harvard Law Review, the M.E.T. program’s interdisciplinary training enables him to lead effectively at the intersection of law, technology, and public policy.

ACADEMIC TRACKS ENGINEERING + BUSINESS AEROSPACE ENGINEERING (AE)

BIOENGINEERING (BIOE)

Obtain skills to emerge as a leader in the rapidly advancing era of aerospace technologies, encompassing sustainable aviation, autonomous flight, and space exploration.

Prepare for leadership in the biotech industry while exploring cutting-edge fields like biomedical devices, synthetic biology, tissue engineering, and nanotechnology.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTER SCIENCES (EECS)

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING & OPERATIONS RESEARCH (IEOR)

Explore the fundamentals of computer science and electrical engineering, while taking courses in subjects such as finance, competitive strategy, and leadership.

Acquire skills to design, create and analyze operations that drive global businesses, while preparing to manage and lead complex industrial systems.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (ME)

ENGINEERING UNDECLARED

Delve into topics from robotics to energy science, control systems design to biomaterials, as well as coursework in macroeconomics and marketing.

Select M.E.T. Engineering Undeclared + Business to explore one of the seven M.E.T. engineering options your first year. This track is only available to freshman applicants.

CIVIL ENGINEERING (CE) Learn to develop engineering solutions to societal-scale challenges that are reliable, resilient, and sustainable. CE is the intersection of data structures and natural environments.

MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING (MSE) Develop a fundamental understanding of materials from the nano to macro scales while gaining computational skills and business acumen.

ADMISSION OPTIONS There are two pathways to apply to M.E.T: • Incoming First-Years: Apply during high school to start M.E.T. as an incoming First Year. • Current Berkeley Engineering Students in an M.E.T. track: Apply during the spring semester of your sophomore year to start M.E.T. as a junior.

SHREYA SHEKHAR EECS + BUSINESS, CLASS OF 2021 For Shreya Shekhar, UC Berkeley’s Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology (M.E.T.) program served as the launchpad for her rapid progression from technical founding engineer to a 23-year-old Partner at the prestigious venture capital firm Greylock. Through dual degrees in Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) and Business Administration, she developed both a deep technical fluency and a strategic understanding of how companies are built and scaled. Beyond academia, M.E.T. immersed her in Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, opening doors to opportunities as a Kleiner Perkins Fellow and Accel Scholar and, later, as a founding engineer at Bedrock Data. Together, these experiences through M.E.T. gave her the technical intuition, business judgment, and founder perspective she now brings to backing the next generation of AI companies.

2025–26 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

6th

95%

Graduating Class

Of non-graduating students engaged in a summer internship, research, or their own venture

Entrepreneurial Fellow Program Interns

AVERAGE STARTING SALARY FOR THE CLASS OF 2026

CLASS OF 2026 GRADUATE PLACEMENT

EMPLOYERS HIRING M.E.T. INTERNS • Amazon • Anduril • Apple • Bain & Company • BNP Paribas • Capitol One • Coinbase • Databricks • Doordash • Google • IBM • Jane Street • McKinsey & Co • Mercor • Meta • Morgan Stanley • NVIDIA • OpenAI • Palantir • Roblox • Stripe • Space X • Zoox

$157,000 RESEARCH LABS • International Computer Science Institute (UCB affiliated) • UC Berkeley Doudna Lab • UC Berkeley Lee Lab • UC Berkeley Wagner Lab • UCSF Center for Science, Education, and Outreach

74%

Full-Time Job

17%

Graduate School

10%

Own Venture

WHO STUDIES AT UC BERKELEY M.E.T. ENTERING CLASS OF 2030 U.S. STATES & COUNTRIES

Each year, our entering class profile is unique, differing from the year before and not predictive of future cohorts. We hope this profile gives you a sense of our broad definition of diversity, and of who makes up our newest community members. As our applicant pool changes each year, so does our entering class. While we strive to have a consistent number of students in each incoming cohort, each student’s personal and academic background is different.

TOTAL: 54 STUDENTS STATES

GENDER BREAKDOWN

RESIDENCY BREAKDOWN

California, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nevada, Ohio, Texas, and Washington

COUNTRIES

30 (or 56%) Male

27 (or 50%) CA Residents

18 (or 33%) Women

14 (or 26%) Out of State

6 (or 11%) Prefer not to respond

13 (or 24%) International

Canada, India, Singapore, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and Vietnam

APPLY ONLINE

Step

Explore and connect with us by visiting met.berkeley.edu.

Complete your UC application by the deadline.

Step

Activate your MAP@Berkeley portal to begin working on your supplemental application, which includes a written essay and a video essay. Prompts are available on our website.

Submit your M.E.T. supplemental essay form and your M.E.T. video essay by the deadline.

CONTINUING STUDENT ADMISSIONS ADMISSIONS PROCESS AND TIMELINE The goal of the admissions review process is to holistically evaluate an applicant’s overall fit for the program. To give voice to their story, all applicants are required to submit a video essay in addition to their written essays.

Early-March: Applications open

Late-March: Submission deadline. You must press the “Submit Application” button on the Review page by 4:00pm (PT) by the submission deadline. Late applications and/or materials will not be accepted.

WHO CAN APPLY Current UC Berkeley College of Engineering sophomores majoring in an M.E.T. academic track are eligible to apply to the M.E.T. program during the spring of their sophomore year. If admitted, students will join M.E.T. during their junior year.

Please check our Continuing Student Admissions webpage for official dates.

Students enrolled in any other College at UC Berkeley, or admitted as junior transfers to UC Berkeley, are not eligible to apply to the M.E.T. program. In addition, we cannot review applications from students who’ve already earned a bachelor’s degree.

Late-May: Last day to withdraw your application. If you wish to withdraw your application from consideration you must do so via e-mail by 4:00pm (PT) by the submission deadline. E-mails should be sent to met@berkeley.edu

Mid-June: Admissions decisions released.