University of California, Berkeley

The University of Calif., Berkeley (also said as Berkeley, UC Berkeley, Calif. or just Cal) may be a public analysis university settled in Berkeley, California. it's the flagship field of the University of Calif. system, one amongst 3 elements within the state's public educational activity arrange, that conjointly includes the Calif. State University system and therefore the Calif. Community schools System.

It is thought-about by the days educational activity World University Rankings collectively of six university brands that lead in world name rankings in 2015 and is graded third on the U.S. News' 2015 Best international Universities rankings conducted within the U.S. and nearly fifty alternative countries. the tutorial Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) conjointly ranks the University of Calif., Berkeley fourth within the world overall, and 1st among public universities. it's broadly speaking graded 1st in science, third in engineering, and fifth in social sciences, with specific rankings of 1st in chemistry, 1st in physics, third in technology, fourth in arithmetic, and fourth in economics/business. The university is additionally renowned for manufacturing a high range of entrepreneurs.

Established in 1868 because the results of the merger of the non-public school of Calif. and therefore the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts school in Oakland, UC Berkeley is that the oldest establishment within the UC system and offers roughly 350 undergrad and graduate degree programs in a very big selection of disciplines. The University of Calif. has been charged with providing each "classical" and "practical" education for the state's individuals. Cal co-manages 3 u.  s. Department of Energy National Laboratories, as well as the town National Laboratory, Lawrence suffragist National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Berkeley college, alumni, and researchers have won seventy two Alfred Bernhard Nobel|Alfred Bernhard Nobel|chemist|philanthropist|altruist} Prizes (including thirty alumni Nobel laureates), nine Wolf Prizes, thirteen Fields Medals (including three alumni medalists), twenty two Turing Awards, forty five full general Fellowships, twenty Academy Awards, fourteen Joseph Pulitzer Prizes and one zero five Olympic gold medals (47 silver and thirty three bronze). up to now, together with Berkeley work, UC Berkeley scientists and researchers have discovered sixteen chemical parts of the tabular array (californium, seaborgium, berkelium, metallic element, fermium, lawrencium, etc.) – over the other university within the world. Lawrence suffragist work conjointly discovered or co-discovered six chemical parts (113 to 118). Berkeley may be a introduction member of the Association of yankee Universities and continues to possess terribly high analysis activity with $730.7 million in analysis and development expenditures within the year ending Gregorian calendar month thirty, 2014