Btw....when I mentioned Berkeley's Petroleum Engineering program to my husband, he got a big question mark on his face. And he has been in oil and gas industry for 30 years and is the founder of a private equity oil and gas startup that received $1 billion in funding last year. (My own overcompensating on his behalf
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The UCB website reveals no petroleum engineering, geological engineering or geophysical engineering major in their little section on engineering rankings. But it does clearly reveal a desire to be considered as good as Stanford or MIT as evidenced by the repeated comparisons. So maybe your q&a "Does Berkeley want to be Stanford? No." is a not exactly true.