University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (additionally alluded to as Berkeley, UC Berkeley, California or basically Cal), is an open exploration college located in Berkeley, California. As noticed by the 2014 Academic Ranking of World Universities, the University of California, Berkeley is the fourth best college in the world. It is the most specific – and most astounding positioned in U.s. News and ARWU  – state funded college on the planet for undergrad education. Aside from its scholarly distinction, UC Berkeley is likewise extraordinary for creating a high number of entrepreneurs.

The college involves 1,232 sections of land (499 ha) on the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay with the focal grounds resting on 178 sections of land (72 ha). Berkeley is the leader foundation of the 10 grounds University of California framework and one of just two UC grounds working on a semester logbook, the other being UC Merced.

Made in 1868 as the aftereffect of the merger of the private College of California and general society Agriculture, Mining, and Mechanic Arts College in Oakland, Berkeley is the most seasoned establishment in the UC framework and offers roughly 350 undergrad and graduate degree programs in an extensive variety of disciplines. The University of California has been accused of giving both "established" and "functional" training for the state's people. Cal co-deals with three United States Department of Energy National Laboratories, with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the U.s. Branch of Energy.

Berkeley staff, graduated class, and analysts have won 72 Nobel Prizes . Alongside Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley scientists have found 16 concoction components altogether – more than whatever other college in the world. Berkeley is an establishing part of the Association of American Universities and keeps on having high research movement with $730.7 million in innovative work consumptions in the monetary year finishing June 30, 2014. Berkeley physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the investigative chief of the Manhattan Project that added to the first nuclear bomb on the planet, which he by and by headquartered at Los Alamos, New Mexico, amid World War II. Employee Edward Teller was (as one with Stanislaw Ulam) the "father of the hydrogen bomb". Previous United States Secretary of Energy and Nobel laureate Steven Chu (Phd 1976), was Director of Berkeley Lab, 2004–2009.

The physical groups at UC Berkeley are known as the California Golden Bears (frequently abbreviated to "Cal Bears" or simply "Cal") and are parts of both the Pacific-12 Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in