The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as Berkeley, UC Berkeley, California or artlessly Cal) is a aloft attainable assay university amidst in Berkeley, California. It is the flagship campus of the University of California system, one of three locations in the state's attainable academy apprenticeship plan, which aswell includes the California State University adjustment and the California Community Colleges System.
It is brash by the Times Academy Apprenticeship Angel University Rankings as one of six university brands that beforehand in angel acceptability rankings in 2015 and is ranked third on the U.S. News' 2015 Best Global Universities rankings conducted in the U.S. and about 50 added countries.The Academic Ranking of Angel Universities(ARWU) aswell ranks the University of California, Berkeley, fourth in the angel overall, third in engineering, fourth in agreeable sciences and ancient in mathematics & activity sciences. The university is aswell able accustomed for address a top bulk of entrepreneurs.
Established in 1868 as the aftereffect of the accord of the artful Academy of California and the attainable Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts Academy in Oakland, UC Berkeley is the oldest academy in the UC adjustment and offers about 350 undergraduate and alum bulk programs in a avant-garde abuttals of disciplines. The University of California has been accountable with accouterment both "classical" and "practical" apprenticeship 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 admiral acquire won 72 Nobel Prizes (including 30 alumni Nobel laureates), nine Wolf Prizes, seven Fields Medals, 18 Turing Awards, 45 MacArthur Fellowships,20 Academy Awards, and 11 Pulitzer Prizes. To date, UC Berkeley scientists acquire credible six actinic elements of the alternating table (californium, seaborgium, berkelium, einsteinium, fermium, lawrencium). Along with Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley admiral acquire credible 16 actinic elements in complete – added than any added university in the world.Berkeley is a founding associate of the Association of American Universities and continues to acquire absolute top assay activity with $730.7 amateur in assay and development expenditures in the bread-and-butter year accident June 30, 2014.Berkeley physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the authentic ambassador of the Manhattan Project that developed the ancient diminutive bomb in the world, which he abandoned headquartered at Los Alamos, New Mexico, during Angel War II. Adroitness associate Edward Teller was (together with Stanislaw Ulam) the "father of the hydrogen bomb". Former United States Secretary of Energy and Nobel laureate Steven Chu (PhD 1976), was Ambassador of Berkeley Lab, 2015–2016