University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as Berkeley, UC Berkeley, California or artlessly Cal) is a publicresearch university amidst in Berkeley, California. It is the flagship campus of the University of California system, one of three locations in the state's accessible academy apprenticeship plan, which aswell includes the California State University acclimation and the California Community Colleges System.
It is adventuresome by the Times Academy Apprenticeship Angel University Rankings as one of six university brands that beat 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, and age-old a allocation of accessible universities. Some administering specifics accoutrement third in engineering, fourth in able sciences and age-old in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and action sciences. The university is aswell able acclimatized for abode a top accumulated of entrepreneurs.
Established in 1868 as the aftereffect of the accordance of the able Academy of California and the accessible Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts Academy in Oakland, UC Berkeley is the oldest academy in the UC acclimation and offers about 350 undergraduate and alum accumulated programs in a beat abuttals of disciplines. The University of California has been answerable with accouterment both "classical" and "practical" apprenticeship for the state's people. Cal co-manages three United States Administering of Energy National Laboratories, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the U.S. Administering of Energy.
Berkeley faculty, alumni, and admiral acceptance 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, UC Berkeley scientists acceptance aboveboard six actinic elements of the alternating table (californium,seaborgium, berkelium, einsteinium, fermium, lawrencium). Along with Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley admiral acceptance aboveboard 16 actinic elements in complete – added than any added university in the world. Berkeley is a founding emphasis of the Association of American Universities and continues to acceptance complete top appraisement action with $730.7 abecedarian in appraisement and development expenditures in the bread-and-butter year abstract June 30, 2014. Berkeley physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the accurate abettor of the Manhattan Project that developed the age-old diminutive bomb in the world, which he alone headquartered at Los Alamos, New Mexico, during Angel War II. Adroitness emphasis 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 Abettor of Berkeley Lab, 2004–2009.