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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.
Video: Turn Your Writing Into Your Career
“It wasn't just one single moment that I had this cataclysmic kind of thought; it was more that I had a calling my whole life and then...
Flexing Newfound Skills
Duane Kubischta received an advanced engineering degree from UC Berkeley and quickly entered the biotech field as an instrumentation...
Moving Up in the Construction Field
Despite demanding 12-hour days as a construction project engineer, Ana Lazo is determined to complete the Certificate Program in...
Ready to Take Stock in Families’ Lives
Our Certificate Program in Personal Financial Planning provides an academic path to joining the financial planning profession. Through...
Berkeley Extension Student from Colombia Lands Job at Google
Luisa Naranjo Azcarate works at Google, continually voted one of the best companies to work for in the U.S. But her path to Silicon...
Getting the Most Out of Data Science
The phrase “high-throughput screening” doesn’t initially grab your interest, but when you delve into it—the complexity and...
Kyle Cameron Enjoys the Flexibility of Online Learning
Learning in an online-only environment is certainly a different way to soak up knowledge than being in a physical classroom. But for...
Fighting Inequity in Health Care
“I’m a career changer,” Post-Baccalaureate Health Professions Program student Aidan Loeser writes in her scholarship...
Career-Changing From Software Engineering to Medicine
Despite traveling and working around the globe and working at lucrative tech startups, Bradley Heinz kept feeling the draw to...