raliem

Nah...I majored in Bioengineering (Biotechnology) at UCSD during my undergraduate years. Though I can see why you would think that based off my location. Let me fix that. I've actually been out of school for almost two years and been working in the biotech industry since then. I wanted to hone my interests while at the same time get some hands-on experience working with industry and research professionals before going to graduate school. That...and I also wanted to earn some money to pay for grad school, haha. I was actually surprised (pleasantly mind you) that I got an acceptance notification from UC Berkeley this early. I haven't heard from any of other schools either so you're not alone. Still waiting for the UC Berkeley's Application Status page to change from a "Submitted" to "Admitted" though... From what I see, most career-focused Masters degree programs last 1-year (well 9 months in this case). So this seems normal to me. Masters degrees that typically take 2+ years are the research-based ones. There's a good chance i'll go to Berkeley, but i'm going to wait till I get my other results back before making any final decisions. Sure I can add you to my LinkedIn, though I haven't really used it that much...

I got accepted into the Chemical Engineering PDP M.S. program according to the e-mail from the program director. Haven't gotten any official acceptance letters sent to me though.

Hi tri-xxx, Congratulations on getting accepted to the UC Berkeley PDP program! I got accepted into the program as well. To answer your question, you could refer to UC Berkeley's Career Destinations Survey to get a rough estimate of the employment rate compared to other majors. Though this is a survey taken by undegraduates. https://career.berkeley.edu/major/major.stm Hope that helps.