University of California, Berkeley
United States of America, CA, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
- Total Students 6914
- Total Programs 285
- Qs World27
- Established year1868
- SectorPublic
- Institution TypeUniversity
University of California, Berkeley
About
Founded in 1868, the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) are a public research university and the flagship institution of the ten research universities affiliated with the University of California system.
Berkeley is one of the 14 founding members of the Association of American Universities and is home to some world-renowned research institutes, including the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and the Space Sciences Laboratory.
Berkeley alumni, faculty, and researchers include 99 Nobel laureates, 23 Turing Award winners, and 14 Pulitzer Prize winners. Faculty member J. R. Oppenheimer led the Manhattan project to create the first atomic bomb, while Berkeley‚ Nobel laureate Ernest Lawrence invented the cyclotron, through which UC Berkeley scientists and researchers discovered 16 chemical elements of the periodic table.