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“At this point, the EECS department is running an annual deficit of nearly $5 million”

“department must provide more than 7,000 student-seats per year in the upper division courses”

That’s crazy. Also amusing how the author constantly talks about scaling up as if the department is a startup.

As an international graduate student, I never considered Berkeley to be an attractive place to study a PhD: insane housing prices, expensive fees and insurance, huge bureaucracy, and all the while even the most popular departments are underfunded or barely-funded so low stipends.

I recommend watching the documentary “At Berkeley”.