Graduate programs

Master of Engineering

Overview

The Master of Engineering is an accelerated program designed to develop professional engineering leaders of the future who understand the technical, economic, and social issues of technology.

This program brings together expertise in a technical specialization with leadership, business, marketing, finance, and management skills. Culminating in a hands-on team-oriented capstone design project, you will apply engineering and business acumen to real-world challenges.

Innovative. Holistic understanding of engineering and business. Choose between full-time or part time enrollment. Interdisciplinary capstone design project.

Career-oriented. Increases likelihood of advancement toward goals after one year of intensive industry-related study. Career advice to help with professional development and placement.

Regular contact with industry. Industry partners help you apply technical knowledge to critical current issues. Guest lecturers share successes and failures.

Small and cross-disciplinary. Most technical class size are 20 students or less. Leadership courses range from 25-50 students.

A Master's degree is an essential beginning for a long-term career in Nuclear Engineering. A Master's degree will allow you a deeper technical specialization, giving you both a head start in your career and a long-term advantage by making it easier for you to track new developments and change direction in your career. Berkeley's Master of Engineering program goes beyond technical specialization to offer courses in engineering leadership and a team-oriented capstone project. The project allows you to practice, with guidance, the technical and non-technical skills that you learn in the classroom.

Berkeley is one of the top NE programs in the world. As a student in NE you will benefit from small class size that means close interaction with the faculty and fellow students in the graduate program.

Technical Concentration

Curriculum

The innovative and experiential MEng curriculum is popular with recent B.S. graduates as well as among those already working in the field.

Degree requirements include 25 units of coursework in 3 areas:

  • Core leadership curriculum
  • Your technical specialty, chosen among the four NE concentrations
  • Your capstone project

Application

The NE MEng degree is administered by Berkeley’s Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership.

A B.S. in NE is not needed, but you must have a strong technical background equivalent to a B.S. in engineering as determined by the department.

MBA/MEng

The four-semester MBA/MEng program is fully integrated, with students taking courses in both business and engineering. Special interdisciplinary courses will also be offered for students in the concurrent degree program. An integral part of the program is an interdisciplinary capstone project in which student teams will grapple with real-world challenges faced by companies or nonprofit or governmental organizations involving an array of business and engineering issues. Students in the program will have special extracurricular opportunities, including small-group meetings with executives from major technology-oriented corporations and start-ups, and tours at well-known companies in the San Francisco Bay Area.