University of California

The University of California, Berkeley (additionally alluded to as Berkeley, UC Berkeley, California or just Cal) is an open exploration college situated in Berkeley, California. It is the lead grounds of the University of Californiasystem, one of three sections in the state's open advanced education arrangement, which additionally incorporates the California State University framework and the California Community Colleges System. 

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 and is positioned third on the U.S. News' 2015 Best Global Universities rankings led in the U.S. furthermore, about 50 different nations. 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 and life sciences. The college is additionally understood for delivering a high number of business people.

Built up in 1868 as the aftereffect of the merger of the private College of California and general society Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College in Oakland, UC Berkeley is the most established organization in the UC framework and offers roughly 350 undergrad and graduate degree programs in an extensive variety of controls. The University of California has been accused of giving both "established" and "functional" training for the state's kin. Cal co-oversees three United States Department of Energy National Laboratories, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for theU.S. Bureau of Energy. 

Berkeley staff, graduated class, and analysts have won 72 Nobel Prizes (counting 30 graduated class Nobel laureates), nineWolf Prizes, seven Fields Medals, 18 Turing Awards, 45 MacArthur Fellowships, 20 Academy Awards, and 11Pulitzer Prizes. To date, UC Berkeley researchers have found six synthetic components of the intermittent table(californium, seaborgium, berkelium, einsteinium, fermium, lawrencium). Alongside Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley scientists have found 16 compound components altogether – more than some other college on the planet. 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 monetary year finishing June 30, 2014. Berkeley physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the investigative executive of the Manhattan Project that added to the principal 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 ofBerkeley Lab, 2004–2009.