The program is interdepartmental as well as intercampus. Research assistantships are available in projects supported by extramural grants or contracts. An effort is made to align the research assistant's interests with those of a faculty member working with extramural support. Some traineeships are available to bioengineering students who are U.S. citizens through a training grant from the National Institutes of Health. Information about other types of financial aid is available from the Financial Aid Office on each campus.
Costs are proportionately higher for the twelve-month academic year.
Approximately 31,000 students, including close to 9,000 graduate students, are enrolled at Berkeley. The cosmopolitan student body includes about 1,900 international students from nearly ninety countries and about 3,500 students from states other than California. Approximately 3,500 students are enrolled at San Francisco, including almost 940 graduate students. Graduate students come from all over the United States, and approximately 10 percent are from other countries.