It is considered by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings as one of six college marks that lead in world notoriety rankings in 2015[9] and is positioned third on the U.S. News' 2015 Best Global Universities rankings directed in the U.S. furthermore, about 50 other countries.[10] The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) likewise positions the University of California, Berkeley fourth on the planet general. Some office specifics incorporate third in designing, fourth in sociologies and first in arithmetic & life sciences.[11] The college is likewise understood for creating a high number of entrepreneurs.[12][13][14]
Built up in 1868 as the consequence of the merger of the private College of California and the general population Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College in Oakland, UC Berkeley is the most seasoned foundation in the UC framework and offers give or take 350 undergrad and graduate degree programs in an extensive variety of disciplines.[15] The University of California has been accused of giving both "traditional" and "handy" instruction for the state's people.[16][17] Cal co-deals with three United States Department of Energy National Laboratories, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the U.S. Bureau of Energy.
Berkeley personnel, graduated class, and scientists have won 72 Nobel Prizes (counting 30 graduated class Nobel laureates), nine Wolf Prizes, seven Fields Medals, 18 Turing Awards, 45 MacArthur Fellowships,[18] 20 Academy Awards, and 11 Pulitzer Prizes. To date, UC Berkeley researchers have found six compound components of the intermittent table (californium, seaborgium, berkelium, einsteinium, fermium, lawrencium). Alongside Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley scientists have found 16 concoction components altogether – more than whatever other college in the world.[19] Berkeley is an establishing individual from the Association of American Universities and keeps on having high research action with $730.7 million in innovative work uses in the financial year finishing June 30, 2014.[20][21] Berkeley physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the exploratory executive 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, 2004–2
