UC Berkeley has announced a new programme that lets the students earn up to 15 credits of classes each term. The courses cover pre-requisites from majors across various subject areas and it allows admission to home institution.

Example classes as specified by UC Berkeley include:

• Reading and Composition
• Calculus
• Introduction to Statistics
• Critical Issues in Global Studies
• Introduction to Biological Anthropology
• Introduction to Human Physiology
• U.S. History
• Introduction to Comparative Politics

Upon completion, students earn a transcript from UC Berkeley Extension, the administrative department of Berkeley Global.

Some of the benefits highlighted by UC Berkeley is as follows:

• A collaborative learning community
• Fully international, inclusive and diverse student body
• Close-knit community of peers, advisers and faculty
• Small, live online classes of only 15 to 45 students (as opposed to large lectures of 300 to 1,000 classmates)

COURSE DETAILS:

FEES: $20,000 (USD) per semester for all the Courses, Student advising, Personal academic advising, Orientation and Student development workshop series.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be a recent high school graduate with a GPA of 3.0
• English language proficiency - Option#1: TOEFL: 90, IELTS Academic Format: 7, DAAD: C, Cambridge C1 Advanced, TEM-4 or TEM-8: 70 (within the past 2 years)
• English language proficiency - Option#2: TOEFL: 79-89, IELTS Academic Format: 6.5, TOEIC: 700 or above, ELS Level 112 with an ELS GPA of 3.0 OR
  must have passed an interview with a UC Berkeley Extension recruiter.

Alternatively, student can request a waiver if:

• They have completed one year of full-time academic instruction entirely in the English language.
• They have successfully completed an academic program in a country where English is the official language.
• They are from a country on the exempt list.

For more information on the course please contact UC Berkeley here.