UC Berkeley University

UC Berkeley University

The University of California, Berkeley also referred to as Berkeley, UC Berkeley, California or simply Cal is a public research university located in Berkeley California. It is the flagship campus of the University of California system one of three parts in the state's public higher education plan, which also includes the California State University system and the California Community Colleges System.

It is considered by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings as one of sixuniversity brands that lead in world reputation rankings in 2015 and is ranked third on the U.S.News 2015 Best Global Universities rankings conducted in the U.S. and nearly 50 othercountries. The Academic Ranking of World Universities ARWU also ranks the University of CaliforniaBerkeley fourth in the world overall, and first among public universities. It is broadly ranked first in science, third in engineering, and fifth in social sciences with specific rankings of first in chemistry first in physics third in computer science fourth in mathematics, and fourth in economics/business. The University is also well known for producing a high number of entrepreneurs.

Established in 1868 as the result of the merger of the private College of California and the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College in Oakland, UC Berkeley is the oldest institution in the UC system and offers approximately 350 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines. The University of California has been charged with providing both classical and practical education for the state's people. Cal co-manages three United States Department of Energy National Laboratories, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Berkeley faculty, alumni, and researchers have won 72 Nobel Prizes including 30 alumni Nobel laureates, nine Wolf Prizes, eight Fields Medals including 3 alumni medalists, 20 Turing Awards, 45 MacArthur Fellowships, 20 Academy Awards 11 Pulitzer Prizes and 105 Olympic gold medals 47 silver and 33 bronze. To date, UC Berkeley scientists have discovered six chemical elements of the periodic table californium, seaborgium, berkelium, einsteinium, fermium, and lawrencium. Along with Berkeley Lab UC Berkeley researchers have discovered 16 chemical elements in total – more than any other university in the world. Berkeley is a founding member of the Association of American Universities and continues to have very high research activity with $730.7 million in research and development expenditures in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014