Schools Similar to University of California-Berkeley

The comparison groups for University of California-Berkeley cover higher reported admission rates, similar admissions profiles, higher reported earnings at similar cost, lower reported cost with similar earnings and options in the same state or region. Choose the question that matters to you, then compare the schools within that group.

Each decision angle has its own candidate list and ordering. A school may appear in more than one group, and a first-place match in one group should not be ranked against a first-place match in another.

Related institutional profiles are a separate comparison. Use the source notes to check the measures and reporting periods behind each list.

This group compares colleges with admission rates within 10 percentage points of University of California-Berkeley’s. Where comparable test-score data are available, the matching rules also limit the score difference.

Those reported school-level profiles are not application cutoffs or evidence that the same applicant would receive the same decision.

This group looks for colleges with a reported admission rate at least 10 percentage points above University of California-Berkeley’s and four-year earnings within 15% of University of California-Berkeley’s figure. It offers another starting point for an application list; a higher school-wide admission rate does not establish your chance of admission.

This group looks within University of California-Berkeley’s state or the region defined by the matching source, with four-year earnings within 20% of University of California-Berkeley’s. The ordering gives local candidates priority when available.

Sharing a state or region does not establish a particular commute, housing arrangement or available program.

This group looks for colleges with four-year median earnings at least 10% above University of California-Berkeley’s, while the reported net price is within 10% or $2,000 of University of California-Berkeley’s. Admission rates must also be within 10 percentage points.

These are comparisons of reported school-level measures, not a forecast that changing schools would raise your earnings.

This group looks for a reported net price at least 15% below University of California-Berkeley’s, with four-year earnings within 15% of University of California-Berkeley’s figure. It can help identify schools worth comparing on cost, but the school-wide net price is not an aid offer or a matched price for your income band.

Related-profile colleges come from a separate comparison. The source requires the same institution type, a bounded enrollment range and a nearby composite score, then orders the matches using composite score, four-year earnings, enrollment and region.

Program-mix flags describe the returned comparison; they are not additional terms in this list’s ordering formula.