Computer Science

The minor program is offered through the College of Engineering and is open to all Berkeley undergraduates with a declared major other than EECS or CS. To be admitted to the CS minor, you must have acquired a cumulative grade point average of 2.0 in the required coursework.

Application Process

To be considered for the CS minor, you must have a declared major other than CS or EECS and submit a CS Minor Application. Deadlines are as follows:

• Students must declare their minor 1 semester before graduation (e.g. by Summer 2020, if graduating in Fall 2020).

• Submit the declaration application when you have at least four of the minor requirements completed these can be any four of the requirements.

• Minor applications are accepted year-round on a rolling basis. 

Completion of the Minor

Please submit the CS Minor Completion Form when you are enrolled in your last requirement(s) or by the Friday before RRR week of your last semester. For students graduating in summer, submit by the Friday before the last week of the term. Submit the form to the advisors in 349 Soda or send to cs-advising@cs.berkeley.edu.

If you are approved as a minor in the department, it will be annotated to your transcript.

For approval of the minor, all the following criteria must be met:

1. All seven courses for the minor must be completed with a passing letter grade.*

2. The overall GPA for those (seven) courses must be at least 2.0.

3. You may only overlap one upper-division course between your declared major and the CS minor.

Students who do not submit the CS Minor Completion form signed by their major advisor by the stated deadline will not have their CS minor conferred.