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University of California, Berkeley

Not to be confused with Berkeley College (disambiguation).

University of California, Berkeley
Former names
University of California (1868–1958)
MottoFiat lux (Latin)
Motto in English
"Let there be light"
TypePublic land-grant research university
EstablishedMarch 23, 1868 (1868-03-23)[1]
Parent institution
University of California
AccreditationWSCUC
Academic affiliations
Endowment$6.9 billion (2022)[2][3]
ChancellorCarol T. Christ
ProvostBenjamin E. Hermalin[4]
Total staff
23,524 (2020)[5]
Students45,307 (Fall 2022)[6]
Undergraduates32,479 (Fall 2022)[6]
Postgraduates12,828 (Fall 2022)[6]
Location
Berkeley
,
California
,
United States

37°52′19″N 122°15′30″W / 37.87194°N 122.25833°W / 37.87194; -122.25833
CampusCore Campus: 178-acre (72-hectare)[7][8]
Total: 8,164-acre (3,304-hectare)[3]
NewspaperThe Daily Californian
Colors  Berkeley Blue
  California Gold[9]
NicknameGolden Bears
Sporting affiliations
MascotOski the Bear
Websiteberkeley.edu

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California)[10][11] is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley, it is the state's first land-grant university and was the founding campus of the University of California system.[12] Berkeley was also a founding member of the Association of American Universities and was one of the original eight "Public Ivy" schools with a quality of education comparable to the Ivy League. It is often regarded as one of the most prestigious and elite universities in the world.[13][14]

The university is organized around fifteen schools of study on the same campus, including the College of Chemistry and the College of Engineering. It also houses the Haas School of Business, the first American business school at a public university. With a strict academic standard for athlete admission,[15] Berkeley students compete in thirty varsity athletic sports, and the university is one of twelve full-member institutions in the Pac-12 Conference. Berkeley's athletic teams (the California Golden Bears) have also won 107 national championships, 196 individual national titles, and 223 Olympic medals (including 121 gold).[16][17]

Berkeley is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".[18] It also has three national laboratories for the U.S. Department of Energy (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory).[19] Best known for their central role in helping develop the first atomic bomb and discovering sixteen chemical elements,[12][20] they are some of the world's largest and most advanced scientific institutions.[21] In 2021, the federal funding for campus research and development exceeded $1 billion.[22] Thirty-two libraries also compose the Berkeley library system which is the sixth largest research library by number of volumes held in the United States.[23][24][25]

Berkeley's endowment is valued at $6.9 billion, making it one of the wealthiest academic institutions in the United States.[3] Due to its proximity to Silicon Valley, Berkeley promotes high-tech entrepreneurship and has produced the most undergraduate startup company founders amongst all American public universities, raising $14 billion in venture capital.[26] Founded in 2012, Berkeley also has its own startup accelerator (Berkeley SkyDeck) which has become a major university incubator both within the United States and worldwide.[27] Among its alumni are the co-founders and CEOs of the largest companies in the world;[28] such as Electronic Arts,[29] Google,[30] Adobe Systems, Softbank (Masayoshi Son) and Qualcomm.[31]

Berkeley's alumni, faculty, and researchers also includes 260 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows,[32] 190 recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship,[33] 144 members of the National Academy of Sciences,[34] 139 Guggenheim Fellows, 125 Sloan Fellows, 110 Nobel laureates,[35] 75 members of the National Academy of Engineering,[36] 68 recipients of the National Medal of Science, 34 Pulitzer Prize winners, 30 Wolf Prize winners, 25 living billionaire alumni,[37] 22 cabinet members, 19 Academy Award winners, 14 Fields Medalists,[38] 10 state governors, 7 heads of state or government, and 6 chief justices.[39] It is also a producer of Rhodes Scholars, Marshall Scholars, and Fulbright Scholars.[40][41][42]

  1. ^ "A brief history of the University of California". Academic Personnel and Programs. Archived from the original on October 21, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  2. ^ As of June 30, 2022; includes assets managed by the UC Regents in the General Endowment Pool for the exclusive benefit of Berkeley. "Annual Endowment Report, Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2022" (PDF). University of California.
  3. ^ a b c "University of California 21/22 Annual Financial Report" (PDF). University of California. Retrieved February 20, 2023.
  4. ^ "Home | Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost". evcp.berkeley.edu. Retrieved July 7, 2022.
  5. ^ "About Berkeley: What We Do". Archived from the original on October 28, 2021. Retrieved October 24, 2021.
  6. ^ a b c "UC Berkeley Quick Facts". UC Berkeley Office of Planning and Analysis. Retrieved October 21, 2021.
  7. ^ "College Navigator – University of California-Berkeley". National Center for Education Statistics.
  8. ^ "UC Berkeley Zero Waste Plan" (PDF). University of California-Berkeley. September 2019. p. 5. Retrieved October 12, 2020.
  9. ^ "Primary Palettes". Berkeley Brand Guidelines. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved May 7, 2017.
  10. ^ "Trademark Use Guidelines and Requirements" (PDF). University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved February 18, 2018.
  11. ^ "Our Name". The Berkeley Brand Manual (PDF). Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley: Office of Communications and Public Affairs. June 2019. p. 34. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 7, 2020. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
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  14. ^ Examples include:
    1. Selingo, Jeffrey. "Our dangerous obsession with Harvard, Stanford and other elite universities". The Washington Post. "…the Ivy League, along with Stanford, the University of Chicago, Duke, and a few elite public universities such as the University of Michigan, UC-Berkeley, and UNC-Chapel Hill are the pride of the American higher-education system around the world."
    2. Thoenig, Jean-Claude (August 31, 2023). "Organizational Governance and the Production of Academic Quality: Lessons from Two Top U.S. Research Universities". Minerva. 52 (4). Springer: 381–417. JSTOR 43548922. "MIT and UCB were selected as two consistently top ranked universities internationally speaking, not only in terms of prestige in the eyes of international public opinion but also in terms of actual outputs as measured by metrics of excellence. They enjoy a very long tenure in the first decile whatever the classification used, and despite the fact that ranking agencies do not allocate the same weight to excellence and prestige indicators. Once they reach the top, they seem to remain there forever, despite increasingly tough competition from research universities who all vie to join the academic heavens"
  15. ^ Smith, Isaac. "Academic Senate releases new admissions criteria for student-athletes". The Daily Californian. Archived from the original on January 1, 2016. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
  16. ^ "California Golden Bears Olympic Medals". University of California Golden Bears Athletics. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
  17. ^ "Cal National Champions". University of California Golden Bears Athletics. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
  18. ^ "Carnegie Classifications: University of California-Berkeley". Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Retrieved February 24, 2015.
  19. ^ "UC National Laboratories | UCOP". www.ucop.edu. Retrieved April 6, 2018.
  20. ^ "#16elements: Berkeley Lab and the Periodic Table". News Center. January 28, 2019. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
  21. ^ "2022 tables: Institutions-physical sciences-government". Nature Index. Archived from the original on February 26, 2023. Retrieved February 26, 2023.
  22. ^ "Table 20. Campus funding for sponsored research tops $1 billion for first time". Berkeley News. August 16, 2021. Retrieved August 16, 2021.
  23. ^ "Berkeley Library Facts" (PDF). www.lib.berkeley.edu.
  24. ^ "New addition to UC Berkeley Main Library dedicated to former UC President David Gardner". Berkeley.edu. June 12, 1997. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
  25. ^ "The Nation's Largest Libraries". American Library Association. July 7, 2006. Archived from the original on November 25, 2022.
  26. ^ "UC Berkeley is No. 1 in global entrepreneurship". University of California. September 16, 2016. Retrieved November 23, 2017.
  27. ^ Bay Area universities, MIT, Harvard top startup ranking for grads who raise venture capital, GeekWire, August 31, 2018
  28. ^ "UC Berkeley is top university in number of companies founded by undergraduate alumni". University of California. September 14, 2023. Retrieved March 10, 2024.
  29. ^ John Riccitiello (BS 1981) has served as the CEO of Electronic Arts since 2007, and previously served as the president and COO of the company from 1996 to 2003. He is also the cofounder of Elevation Partners (with U2 singer Bono).HarmonyService (Fall 2007). "University of California Berkeley, Haas School of Business – John Riccitiello, BS 81". Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley. Archived from the original on May 13, 2013. Retrieved May 17, 2010.
  30. ^ Eric Schmidt (MS 1979, PhD 1982) has been the CEO of Google since 2001. Pescovitz, David (May 27, 2014). "Eric Schmidt Searches and Finds Success (Again)". Lab Notes: Research from the Berkeley College of Engineering. 3 (1 (Jan/Feb 2003)). College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  31. ^ Paul Jacobs (BS 1984, MS 1986, PhD 1989 EECS) has been the CEO of Qualcomm since 2005. Abby Cohn (November 2008). "Mobile Phone Metamorphosis". "Innovations" by UC Berkeley College of Engineering. Archived from the original on June 9, 2010. Retrieved May 17, 2010.
  32. ^ "Nine faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences". news.berkeley.edu. April 23, 2020. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
  33. ^ Rachel Sugar (May 29, 2015). "Where MacArthur 'Geniuses' Went to College". Business Insider. Retrieved November 5, 2020.
  34. ^ "Cal Facts" (PDF). admissions.berkeley.edu. Retrieved February 22, 2023.
  35. ^ "Nobel Laureates and research affiliations". Nobel Foundation. October 2, 2023. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  36. ^ "National Academy of Engineering members". Berkeley Engineering. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
  37. ^ Kathleen Elkins (May 18, 2018). "More billionaires went to Harvard than to Stanford, MIT and Yale combined". CNBC. Retrieved August 19, 2020.
  38. ^ "About UC Berkeley: Honors and Awards". Berkeley.edu. Archived from the original on July 4, 2008. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
  39. ^ "Berkeley Law Distinguished Alumni". sfgate.com. February 26, 2012.
  40. ^ "Top Producers". us.fulbrightonline.org. Archived from the original on October 28, 2020. Retrieved November 4, 2020.
  41. ^ "Statistics". www.marshallscholarship.org. Archived from the original on January 26, 2017. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
  42. ^ "US Rhodes Scholars Over Time". www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on November 25, 2020. Retrieved November 23, 2020.

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