University of California, Berkeley

The University of Golden State, Berkeley (also noted as Berkeley, UC Berkeley, Golden State or just Cal) may be a public analysis university situated in Berkeley, California. it's the flagship field of the University of Golden State system, one in every of 3 elements within the state's public teaching arrange, that conjointly includes the Golden State State University system and also the Golden State Community faculties System.

It is thought of by the days teaching World University Rankings jointly of six university brands that lead in world name rankings in 2015 and is hierarchical  third on the U.S. News' 2015 Best world Universities rankings conducted within the U.S. and nearly fifty alternative countries. the tutorial Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) conjointly ranks the University of Golden State, Berkeley fourth within the world overall, and initial among public universities. it's loosely hierarchical  initial in science, third in engineering, and fifth in social sciences, with specific rankings of initial in chemistry, initial in physics, third in technology, fourth in arithmetic, and fourth in economics/business. The university is additionally documented for manufacturing a high range of entrepreneurs.

Established in 1868 because the results of the merger of the non-public school of Golden State and also the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts school in metropolis, UC Berkeley is that the oldest establishment within the UC system and offers some 350 collegian and graduate degree programs in a very big selection of disciplines. The University of Golden State 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, 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 chemist|Alfred Bernhard Nobel|chemist|philanthropist|altruist} Prizes (including thirty alumni Nobel laureates), 9 Wolf Prizes, eight Fields Medals (including three alumni medalists), twenty Alan Turing Awards, forty five MacArthur Fellowships, twenty Academy Awards,11 newspaper publisher Prizes and one hundred and five Olympic gold medals (47 silver and thirty three bronze). up to now, together with Berkeley workplace, UC Berkeley scientists and researchers have discovered sixteen chemical components of the table (californium, seaborgium, berkelium, Es, fermium, lawrencium, etc.) – over the other university within the world. Lawrence Mary Ashton Rice Livermore workplace conjointly discovered or co-discovered six chemical components (113 to 118). Berkeley may be a institution member of the Association of yank Universities and continues to own terribly high analysis activity with $730.7 million in analysis and development expenditures within the twelvemonth ending Gregorian calendar month thirty, 2014.