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Student Health Insurance Office
Tang Center, UC Berkeley
2222 Bancroft Way, Rm. 3200
Berkeley CA 94720-4300
Students are strongly encouraged to first contact us by phone or email.
All registered undergraduate and graduate UC Berkeley students, including international students, are automatically enrolled in the Berkeley Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP) to meet the University of California’s health insurance mandate set by the UC Regents. If you have comparable health insurance that meets the SHIP waiver criteria and do not wish to have dual coverage, you can submit an online waiver application to waive enrollment in SHIP. The waiver must be filled out annually during the waiver period (July deadline for the entire upcoming academic year or January deadline for the spring semester).
Waiver Period
Waiver Period is Closed
Summer Special Programs include:
1. Master of Financial Engineering - incoming March class only
2. Master of Laws (Executive Track LLM)
3. Incoming students in the following programs:
-Master of Public Affairs
-Master of Arts in Teaching (BTEP & PLI)
-Master of Real Estate Development + Design
-Master of Urban Design
-11-month Master of Public Health
-Master of Biotechnology
-Master of Computational Social Science