Clinical Education at the I School
I School clinics provide students with course credit for hands-on client work in diverse professional information areas under faculty supervision. These programs typically serve public agencies and nonprofits with data science, cybersecurity, and information management services while teaching students professional information skills. Each clinic can be thought of as an intensive learning lab for students to develop hands-on experience with real world clients and organizations.
Clinical courses are open to School of Information graduate students, as well as students from other UC Berkeley programs on a space-available basis. Current UC Berkeley students should review each clinic’s page for up-to-date information on how and when to apply. Clinics require an application for enrollment and may have additional requirements to enroll and participate in the clinic for the semester.
The School of Information currently sponsors two clinics:
UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic
The UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic is a trailblazing multidisciplinary, public-interest digital security clinic, training teams of students to help Social sector organizations defend themselves against digital threats.
Social sector organizations, including journalists, human rights defenders, and social justice activists, are essential for healthy democracies, human rights, and justice to thrive. But many lack the resources to secure their digital operations. These organizations face growing threats of cyberattacks, targeted surveillance, online harassment, and disinformation. The Cybersecurity Clinic (formerly called Citizen Clinic) empowers social sector organizations to fulfill their missions, defend against digital threats, and build digital capabilities so they can drive social change.
Berkeley Public Interest Technology Clinic
The Public Interest Technology Clinic gives graduate students the chance to do meaningful, high-impact analytical work for real public agencies and nonprofits. Students apply data science, economics, and machine learning to problems that matter — helping families access federal benefits, supporting affordable housing programs, improving city services, and strengthening pathways for underrepresented communities. Students work directly with government and mission-driven partners, gaining experience that few classrooms or internships provide.
Affiliated Clinic
Global Rights Innovation Lab Clinic (UC Berkeley School of Law)
Apply your data skills to defend human rights: work on topics like police accountability, the rights of the incarcerated, and ending gender apartheid.
School of Information students are invited to participate in Berkeley Law’s Global Rights Innovation Lab Clinic.