Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology at University of California - Berkeley

If you are interested in studying atmospheric sciences and meteorology, you may want to check out the program at University of California - Berkeley. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

UC Berkeley is located in Berkeley, California and has a total student population of 42,327. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 5 students received a bachelor's degree in meteorology from UC Berkeley.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology section at the bottom of this page.

UC Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Meteorology

UC Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the meteorology progam at UC Berkeley compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The meteorology major at UC Berkeley is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular Atmospheric Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools	51

Meteorology Student Demographics at UC Berkeley

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the meteorology majors at University of California - Berkeley.

UC Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 5 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology from UC Berkeley in 2020-2021, 40% were men and 60% were women. The typical meteorology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 40% women. So female students are more repesented at UC Berkeley since its program graduates 20% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 63% more racial-ethnic minorities in its meteorology bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of California - Berkeley with a bachelor's in meteorology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

UC Berkeley also has a doctoral program available in meteorology. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Geological & Earth Sciences
• Astronomy & Astrophysics
• Materials Sciences
• Chemistry
• Physics

Careers That Meteorology Grads May Go Into

A degree in meteorology can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for University of California - Berkeley.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Natural Sciences Managers	7,870	$168,790
Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Professors	1,310	$124,250
Atmospheric and Space Scientists	640	$102,020

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By LAgirl5252 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.