Training to become tomorrow’s intellectual and professional leaders

Today’s graduate students are tomorrow’s academic, business, and political leaders who will guide our nation as we face complex questions and develop revolutionary technologies unimagined by previous generations.

A placement survey of Berkeley doctoral students who earned their degrees between 1995 and 2003 showed that almost 60 percent had accepted academic positions, 25 percent were employed in industry, and 9 percent were working for government agencies or laboratories.

Berkeley graduate alumni have made their mark in fields ranging from business to government, physical sciences to the arts. Accomplished graduate alumni include:

• Earl Warren ’12, J.D. ’14, chief justice of the United States, 1953–69
• John Kenneth Galbraith, M.A. ’32, Ph.D. ’34, influential economist and author, and U.S. ambassador to India, 1961–63
• Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D. ’37, Nobel laureate in chemistry, 1951
• Pete Wilson, J.D. ’62, governor of California, 1991–99
• Andrew Grove, Ph.D. ’63, cofounder of Intel Corporation
• Barbara Lee, M.S.W. ’75, U.S. congresswoman
• Steven Chu, Ph.D. ’76, director of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Nobel laureate in physics, 1997
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Ph.D. ’84, award-winning author and poet