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Graduate Services: Degrees Office

NOTE: Graduate Division offices will be closed from 3 p.m. November 25, 2009 through November 27, 2009. We will be open for business as usual on Monday, November 30, 2009.

The Degrees staff monitors student progress from registration to graduation. Much useful information can be found on the Degrees Office web pages, including answers to frequently asked questions,  policies, procedures, and almost all of the forms and applications that you might need. After consulting staff in your department, you can drop in or schedule an appointment in the Degrees Office to discuss specific academic or personal concerns such as readmission, the qualifying exam, advancement to candidacy, filing fee, probation, and eligibility for the Dean's Normative Time Fellowship. Master's theses and doctoral dissertations are filed in this office.

Graduate Services: Appointments, Degrees, and Fellowships
Graduate Division
318 Sproul Hall #5900
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-5900

Office Hours:

Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m.

Contact Us:

Email: degrees@berkeley.edu         
Telephone: 510-642-7330

General Information

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Applications & Forms
• Deadlines for Master's and Doctoral Degrees
• Exchange Programs
• Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program Information
• Fairness of Authorship (PDF)

Policies and Procedures for Master's Students

• Requirements for Research Involving Human Subjects or Animal Subjects
• Instructions for Preparing and Filing Your Thesis or Dissertation (PDF)
• Library Permission Form (PDF) - for Master's Students
• Diploma - Approximately 4 months after your graduation date, you may obtain your diploma in person at the Office of the Registrar, 120 Sproul Hall, or you may request to have it mailed to you.

Policies and Procedures for Doctoral Students

• Application for Qualifying Examination (PDF) - for doctoral students
  • Memo: Service on Qualifying Examination Committees
  • Policy Statement Approved by the Graduate Council Regarding Qualifying Examinations for the Doctoral Degree
• Requirements for Research Involving Human Subjects or Animal Subjects
• Applications for Candidacy
  • Candidacy Guidelines
• Dean's Normative Time Fellowship for doctoral students in specific programs
• Request for Change in Higher Degree Committee (PDF) - Reconstitution of Committee
• Instructions for Preparing and Filing Your Thesis or Dissertation (PDF)
• Filing Fee Application (PDF)
  
• Forms and Surveys Required for Doctoral Students When Filing:
  • Publishing your dissertation (ProQuest Publishing Agreement Form)
  • Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED)
  • UC Berkeley Survey of Doctoral Students' Opinion (PDF)
    
• Diploma - Approximately 4 months after your graduation date, you may obtain your diploma in person at the Office of the Registrar, 120 Sproul Hall, or you may request to have it mailed to you.

Resources and Additional Information

• Academic Services - Help with academic writing, grant writing, dissertation writing, editing, and preparing articles for publication.
• ProQuest Search - Search citations and abstracts of dissertations from all UC campuses.
• Library Material Photoduplication Services - A variety of services from photocopies of journal articles to technical photographic work including glossy and matte prints, negatives, slides, photostats, microfiche, and microfilm.
  
• Graduate Council Student Parent Policies
  • UC Families Web Resource
• Graduate Appeal Procedure (PDF)
• Graduate Appeal Procedure Form (PDF)