Campus visits

Free Guided Walking Tours

We offer free 90-minute accessible walking tours of the campus seven days a week, rain or shine. Prospective student or family? Tourist? Nostalgic alum? A campus tour is perfect for you! Our expert tour guides are student ambassadors who cover academics, history of the University, health & safety, athletics, student life, and much more.

The tour outlines our residence halls and dining options, but...

Special Group & Private Walking Tours

Thank you for your interest in booking a special group walking tour or private walking tour with special accommodations. These are general walking tours of our campus. Our Fall 2024 calendar is available for booking! At the bottom of the page, you can put your name on our list to be notified when the Spring 2025 booking calendar becomes available in early February.

What Constitutes a Special Group?

A special group is any party of 10 or more people. This can include a large family, school group (grades 6th...

Golf Cart Tours

Visitor Services offers one-hour golf cart tours of the campus for visitors with limited mobility only. If you have limited mobility, please fill out the form below and additionally email tour@berkeley.edu with your request and clearly detail your special accommodation requirement so that we may approve the golf cart tour.

The information presented on a golf cart tour is the same information you would receive on our...

Virtual Engagements

Virtual Campus Visits

We will conduct live virtual campus visits over Zoom Webinar this spring with our student campus ambassadors! Learn all about the Berkeley campus, academics, and student life. We'll present for 45 minutes and then answer some of your questions. Visitors will not be able to show their video or unmute themselves; rather, all questions can be typed in the Q&A functionality of the webinar.

We plan to post the schedule in February 2025....

Campus Ambassadors

Campus Ambassadors lead tours and guide the Berkeley experience for our 175,000 annual campus guests. As representatives and advocates for the university, ambassadors personify the excellence and diversity of the campus community while telling their Berkeley stories.

Want to connect with a current ambassador below? Email us at tour@berkeley.edu with the name of the ambassador and we will connect you! Please note we are unable to accept requests for in-person tours given by a particular tour guide.

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Admitted & Waitlisted Student Tours

Congratulations on being admitted or waitlisted to UC Berkeley!

We heartily congratulate you on this momentous achievement and want you to join us on a guided walking tour of UC Berkeley.

Please visit your Admit Hub in your MAP@Berkeley portal for all the information you need about these tours. Alternatively, you may call us at the Visitor Center (510-642-5215) during our open hours.

Tours start at the Koret Visitor Center at...

Campus Tours

Self-Guided Tours & Maps

We welcome you with open arms on our campus with a variety of guided and self-guided tours and maps. While you are on campus, check out our instagrammable places!

Virtual Campus Experience through YouVisit

Wander the campus virtually through our YouVisit...

Sneak Peek: How a Campus Tour is Refined

July 26, 2024
Nichelle W.
Sneek Peek: How a Campus Tour is Refined

If you’ve been on one of our guided campus tours, you’ve heard our tour guides talk about all the facts and statistics and superstitions of Berkeley. But how do they get to the polished final product that they are? Let me walk you through the journey of a campus tour script.

When we’re brand new campus ambassadors, our first step is to read a thousand-page textbook on the history of Berkeley. Just kidding…kind of. We do get a manual with all the information about campus, and we draw from it to write our tour...

Information for UC Berkeley Staff/Faculty [campus tour request]

Visitor Services provides specialized tours for campus department hosted event/conference attendees or as a part of a new student orientation, coordinated and requested by UC Berkeley staff or faculty. These tours are not for school groups, non-Berkeley related organizations, or general visitors to the campus - please instead visit our Special Group Tours or Free Walking Tours pages. Subjects...