UC Berkeley Class of 2029 Official Discussion Thread

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Cross posting this for visibility. Those admitted to COE should take a look.

New ECE Major at Berkeley COE

Starting Fall 2025, Berkeley is planning to offer a new Electrical and Computer Engineering Major. Thus, the arc of CS enrollment bends inevitabily towards specialized majors: CS, EECS, and now ECE. With this change, COE can even more tightly manage enrollment and offer more specialized pathways optimized to student interest. CS 61B - Data Structures is not a specifically required course but an approved ECE major breadth CS 70 - discrete Math is not a specifically required course but an approved probability course Math 51 and Math 52 become required lower div courses replacing Math 1A and Math 1B EECS 16A and EECS 16B stay as required courses similar to EECS The technical electives as expected focus on a lot of key EE courses All in all its definitely a more focused major but I suspect people will stay want to take 61B even if they have mild interests in a CS career and I think may b very thankful they don’t have to take the annoying CS70 class. @tamagotchi Curious to hear what EE…