University of California, Berkeley

The University of Calif., Berkeley (also remarked as Berkeley, UC Berkeley, Calif. or just Cal)[7] could 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 education arrange, that conjointly includes the Calif. State University system and therefore the Calif. Community faculties System.

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

Established in 1868 because the results of the merger of the personal faculty of Calif. and therefore the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts faculty in city, UC Berkeley is that the oldest establishment within the UC system and offers close to 350 undergrad and graduate degree programs in an exceedingly wide 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 us Department of Energy National Laboratories, together with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Mary Ashton Rice Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Berkeley college, alumni, and researchers have won seventy two Alfred Nobel|Alfred Bernhard Nobel|chemist|philanthropist|altruist} Prizes (including thirty alumni Nobel laureates), 9 Wolf Prizes, eight Fields Medals (including three alumni medalists), twenty Turing Awards, forty five general Fellowships, twenty Academy Awards,11 newspaper publisher Prizes and one zero five Olympic gold medals  silver and thirty three bronze). thus far, UC Berkeley scientists have discovered six chemical parts of the tabular array (californium, seaborgium, berkelium, atomic number 99, fermium, lawrencium). in conjunction with Berkeley science laboratory, UC Berkeley researchers have discovered sixteen chemical parts in total – quite the other university within the world. Berkeley could be a foundation 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.