UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley's NROTC unit, headquartered at the original home of NROTC when Berkeley was one of the six founding programs in 1926, draws 50-60 midshipmen from Berkeley, UC Davis, Stanford University, and California Maritime Academy. Berkeley's history with ROTC is complicated — the program survived campus opposition during the Vietnam era and has operated with varying degrees of institutional visibility ever since — but the current unit is active, competitive, and draws genuinely mission-driven students willing to commit within an environment that doesn't uniformly celebrate military service. The cross-campus composition from Stanford and UC Davis adds academic range. Service selection includes all warfare communities, with a notable number of Berkeley-educated officers entering the intelligence and information warfare communities given the campus's policy and technology research depth. Cal Maritime's participation brings maritime seamanship depth.