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From getting into graduate schools to landing their dream jobs, our students and alumni study and work hard to accomplish their academic and career goals. Be inspired by their successes to achieve your own career change or advancement.
Working Toward a Bright Future in Medicine
It is not surprising that Robert Matthew (Matt) Klinkel has excelled as a student in UC Berkeley Extension’s Post-Baccalaureate Health...
Learning to Be Ambitious
When Sera Balenagasau enters a room, you know it. She has a kindly demeanor and her voice rolls with a gentle cadence, but Sera has a...
We Owe It All to You
We are proud to announce that we’ve been named “Best Continuing Education for 2018” in an Oakland Magazine reader's poll. An East...
The Science of Music, the Music in Science
At its base, music is a result of mathematical principles and logic. It's a set of formulas and theories to produce a set of notes that...
Meet Pamela Rosecrance
In five years, Pamela Rosecrance will be completing her final year in residence at the University of Tennessee Ph.D. program (where she...
Jeff McLaughlin on a Lifelong Passion for Classical Languages
Back in 2011, during evenings and weekends, Jeff McLaughlin studied, read and translated ancient Greek and Latin. "Work occupies so much...
To Make a Positive Impact in Mental Health
When she finally decided to pursue graduate school for psychology, Lisell Perez-Rogers turned to UC Berkeley Extension's...
Composing the Editing Score
Not many people would think the roles of baker, musician and editor are all connected. But for Harlow Carpenter, who identifies as...
Trusting in Potential
“I remember being unable to sleep one night—and thinking about the various inadequacies of the job I was working at the time—and...