The University of
California, Berkeley (also referred to as Berkeley, US 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 six university
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 other countries. The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)
also ranks the University of California, Berkeley 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, US Berkeley is the oldest institution in the US 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 Alamo's National Laboratory, Lawrence Liver more 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, seven Fields Medals (including 3 alumni
medalists), 18 Turing Awards, 45 MacArthur Fellowships, 20 Academy Awards, and
11 Pulitzer Prizes. To date, US Berkeley scientists have discovered six
chemical elements of the periodic table (californium, Seaborg, berkelium,
einsteinium, fermium, lawrencium Along with Berkeley Lab, US 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.
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Reference
- "University of California, Berkeley Brand Guidelines" University of California. Retrieved June 24, 2014.
- "Annual Endowment Report, Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2015" (PDF). Chief Investment Officer of the Regents of the University of California. p. 4.
- University of California Annual Financial Report 11/12 (PDF) (Report). University of California. 2012. p. 12. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
- Berndahl, Robert (October 8, 1998). "The Future of Flagship Universities" University of California, Berkeley. Archived from the original on February 7, 2011.The issue I want to talk about tonight is the future of "flagship" universities, institutions like the University of Texas at Austin, or Texas A&M at College Station, or the University of California, Berkeley. This is not an easy topic to talk about for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that those of us in "systems" of higher education are frequently actively discouraged from using the term "flagship" to refer to our campuses because it is seen as hurtful to the self-esteem of colleagues at other institutions in our systems.
- Maclay, Kathleen (September 28, 2010). "Two young faculty members named MacArthur "genius" fellows" Newscenter.berkeley.edu. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
- www.wikipedia.com
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