About MAS-E

Earn a Top-Tier Engineering Master’s Degree

UC Berkeley Engineering, the #1 public engineering school in the U.S., now offers an online Master of Advanced Study in Engineering (MAS-E) degree, making a top-tier education more accessible to a wider audience, including busy working professionals who want to move ahead in their careers by gaining state-of-the-art knowledge and analytical skills in their fields.

Learn from Our World-Renowned Faculty

Our master’s courses are taught by inspiring engineering faculty and lecturers who are global leaders in their fields.

• Access recorded lectures when it’s convenient and talk with your professors during live, online office hours.
• Hands-on projects provide opportunities to interact with peers.
• Select courses based on your personal interests and career goals.
• MAS-E courses span traditional fields, like Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, as well as interdisciplinary fields, like autonomous AI systems, data analysis,  biomedical engineering, advanced manufacturing, and much more.
• Students earning the MAS-E will gain cutting-edge expertise well-suited for the global work landscape.

Flexible Design to Best Support Working Students

In this self-paced program, students have up to four years to complete the 24-unit degree, but may finish in less than two years, if enrolled full-time.

Tuition

Tuition for the program, developed and offered in partnership with the online platform Coursera, is $1,750 per unit for a total of $42,000 for 24 units, plus fees.* This rate is true regardless of residency location or status. Students pay tuition per course, as they go, plus campus fees each semester.

MAS-E tuition reimbursement may be offered by your organization. Talk with your HR representative and share this link to see if the MAS-E qualifies.

For additional information on financial aid, please visit the Financial Aid and Scholarships Office Cost of Attendance website.

This program has a non-refundable application fee. For other information on refunds after withdrawal and non-refundable fees after the first day of instruction, please refer to this link from the UC Berkeley Office of the Registrar.

If you are or will be utilizing veterans’ educational benefits to fund your degree, contact the Veterans Benefits Unit at veteransbenefits@berkeley.edu for information regarding whether the overall program fee is covered or includes fees that are not covered.

MAS-E Tuition Fee Example

The following is meant to serve as an example of a typical semester’s fee structure. The amounts for each fee are subject to change each term, and can vary from what is depicted in the chart below.

Tuition:

Tuition is billed at $1,750 per unit. 

Example calculation:

If a student takes 3 1-unit courses with the MAS-E program, that student will be billed for tuition with the following calculation:

3 units x $1,750/unit = $5,250

Fees:

With an example of 3 1-unit course load, here are the projections for each term:

Fall: $10,530.75 ($5,250+$5,280.75)
Spring: $10,530.75 ($5,250+$5,280.75)
Summer: $7,882.50 ($5,250+$2,632.50)

*SHIP stands for the Student Health Insurance Program. The University requires all students to automatically become enrolled in a student health insurance plan, unless they fill out a SHIP waiver within the appropriate deadlines.  MAS-E staff will send out reminders to students about deadlines for SHIP waivers for each term. 

**The Document Management fee will only be assessed one time in a student’s first semester with the program. This fee will not show up in subsequent semesters’ billing.