New Admits

Congratulations on receiving an offer of admission to the Ph.D. program in Mathematics/Applied Mathematics or the Ph.D. program in Logic and the Methodology of Science at the University of California, Berkeley! Admission to these Ph.D. programs is highly competitive; you should be very proud of this achievement. Please see below for important information regarding your offer of admission.

Graduate Admissions Open House/Visit Day | March 19th & March 20th

All admitted Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Logic Group students are invited to join us for our Annual Graduate Admissions Open House on Sunday, March 19th and Monday, March 20th. Please let us know of your plans to visit our department by Wednesday, March 1st by completing our RSVP Form. If you would like to visit our department on an alternate date, please let us know via the RSVP Form. Please note that due to limited availabiity of staff, faculty, and students, we cannot arrange visits during Spring Break, March 27 - 31. Limited travel reimbursements will be provided, please see below for more details.

More Open House details and the finalized agenda will be sent out in early-mid March. Visitors can plan to arrive Sunday morning and depart Monday evening. We will have activities arranged for Sunday, late afternoon and evening, and all day Monday, with formal programming ending at 4:30 pm or earlier.

*At this time, our Open House is an in-person event. If you are interested in remote offerings, please let us know via the RSVP Form.

Travel Reimbursements for the Open House or Alternate Visit Days

Before making your decision to accept or decline our offer of admission, we hope you will be able to visit the department to get a sense of our graduate community. To help with the cost of visiting the department, we are able to provide admitted students with limited travel reimbursements and will work with neighboring schools you may also be visiting during your trip to California/the Bay Area to help you cover your costs in full (e.g., Stanford, UCLA, UC Davis, Cal Tech, etc.).

For Open House guests, we have arranged for a block of single rooms in nearby hotels for the evening of Sunday, March 19th. A limited number of rooms are reserved for two-night stays on Saturday, March 18th and Sunday March 19th. If you would like to stay in our room block please let us know via the RSVP Form. If you would like to make your own overnight accommodations, you can find a list of local hotels here, https://visit.berkeley.edu/planning-your-day/lodging-and-dining. If you plan to stay in a nearby city (Oakland, San Francisco) and are not familiar with the area, please email us prior to booking a reservation so that we can make sure you have selected a safe and convenient area for your visit.

For those visiting the department on an alternate date, please plan to make your own overnight accommodations. You can find a list of local hotels here, https://visit.berkeley.edu/planning-your-day/lodging-and-dining. We are able to help make suggestions for places to stay and may be able to help arrange for a reservation as time allows. Again, please let us know if you plan to stay in a nearby city and are not familiar with the area.

Eligible travel expenses include, airfare, mileage/ground transportation, and overnight lodging. We are not able to reimburse meals. Importantly, we can only provide travel reimbursements for the admitted student; any accompanying travel companion will need to cover their own expenses. Please keep itemized receipts for all claimed expenses; they are required to process the reimbursement. For questions on travel reimbursements, please email reimbursements [at] math [dot] berkeley [dot] edu.

For students arriving directly from the Stanford Open House via the Stanford Bus:

For visitors traveling directly from the Stanford Open House via the Stanford Bus, we will provide up to $550 in travel reimbursements.

For students electing to stay in our hotel block:

For visitors who elect to stay in our hotel block for 1 night, and traveling from within California we will provide up to $400 in travel reimbursements.
For visitors who elect to stay in our hotel block for 2 nights, and traveling from within California we will provide up to $200 in travel reimbursements
For visitors who elect to stay in our hotel block for 1 night, and traveling from out-of-state/internationally we will provide up to $550 in travel reimbursements.
For visitors who elect to stay in our hotel block for 2 nights, and traveling from out-of-state/internationally we will provide up to $350 in travel reimbursements

For students visiting the department and arranging their own lodging:

For visitors traveling from within California and arranging their own overnight accommodations, we will provide up to $600 in travel reimbursements.
For visitors traveling from out-of-state/internationally and arranging their own overnight accommodations, we will provide up to $750 in travel reimbursements.

Graduate Student Admissions Ambassadors

Have questions for current Ph.D. students? A list of current graduate students who are available to answer questions about our program and the department will be emailed directly to prospective students in March. Please feel free to reach out to our student ambassadors via the contact email provided. You can also learn more about our current students on our Graduate Students page.

General Information on Graduate Study at Berkeley

Below you will find additional links to useful websites that can help you learn more about the campus and make your decision.

Information on COVID-19

Please review UC Berkeley's Information for Graduate Students page for campus policies and updates regarding COVID-19. All faculty, staff and students are required to be fully vaccinated. For more information on this requirement, please refer to the UC immunization requirement and the COVID-19 vaccine requirement.

Accept the Offer

In the coming weeks you will receive an official letter from the Dean of the Graduate Division confirming your offer of admission. Graduate Division's formal letter will include details on how to formally accept or decline your offer of admission. You can also find more information here. Please make your decision to accept or decline by the national deadline, April 15, 2023.

Further Questions?

Please feel free to contact Clay Calder, Graduate Advisor, if you have additional questions regarding your offer of admission or visiting the campus. Clay can be reached at jccalder [at] berkeley [dot] edu.