For more student activities and organizations, see the Campus Activities web page. As a Cal student, you can also take advantage of an exciting selection of on-campus lectures, concerts, forums, seminars, festivals, plays, exhibits, and films offered by world leaders in their fields. In addition, San Francisco's cultural, entertainment and sporting activities are within minutes of the campus and are easily accessible to students via public transportation. You have a wide variety of housing choices at Berkeley. The campus guarantees housing for one year, in residence halls for to students who are admitted to the fall term and meet the housing application deadline.
Most halls are co-ed and offer dining facilities, recreational and social programs, and study rooms.
In addition, the campus maintains approximately 1,000 apartments for married or single-parent students. Other housing options include about 3,400 spaces in student cooperatives, fraternities, and sororities. The campus also provides information about rentals available in the community. Berkeley provides many programs and services for the protection, comfort, and safety of its students, faculty, staff and visitors. The campus maintains a fully-staffed police department which offers personal safety counseling, night escort and shuttle services, accessible emergency telephones, bicycle licensing, and crime prevention seminars and training.