University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, California, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines. The university occupies 6,651 acres (2,692 ha) with the central campus resting on approximately 200 acres (80.9 ha).

The University was founded in 1868 in a merger of the private College of California and the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College. Berkeley was a founding member of the Association of American Universities. Sixty-two Nobel Laureates have been affiliated with the university as faculty, researchers, or alumni.

The Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked UC Berkeley 3rd internationally. Newsweek and Webometrics Ranking of World Universities ranked Berkeley 5th in the World. UC Berkeley ranks 1st among public universities and ranks 21st overall in the USNWR "National University" Ranking. It ranked 2nd for undergraduate engineering and 3rd for its undergraduate business program.

Organization and administration

Berkeley is the oldest of the ten major campuses of the University of California. The University of California is governed by a 26-member Board of Regents, 18 of which are appointed by the Governor of California to 12-year terms, 7 serving as ex officio members, and a single student regent. The position of Chancellor was created in 1952 to lead individual campuses. The Board appointed Robert J. Birgeneau to be the 9th Chancellor of the university in 2004. 12 vice chancellors report directly to the Chancellor. The Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost serves as the chief academic officer and is the office to which the deans of the 14 colleges and schools report.

Haas School of Business

Berkeley's 130-plus academic departments and programs are organized into 14 colleges and schools. "Colleges" are both undergraduate and graduate, while "Schools" are generally graduate only, though some offer undergraduate majors, minors, or courses.

• College of Chemistry
• College of Engineering
• College of Environmental Design
• College of Letters and Science
• College of Natural Resources
• Graduate School of Education
• Graduate School of Journalism
• Haas School of Business
• Goldman School of Public Policy
• School of Information
• School of Law
• School of Optometry
• School of Public Health
• School of Social Welfare

The 2006-2007 budget totaled $1.7 billion; 33% came from the State of California. In 2006-2007, 7,850 donors contributed $267.9 million and the endowment was valued at $2.89 billion.

UC Berkeley employs 24,700 people directly and employees are permitted to unionize and are represtented by AFSCME, CNA, CUE, UAW, UC-AFT, and UPTE.

Notable people

List of Nobel laureates associated with University of California, Berkeley

14th Chief Justice of the United States Earl Warren, BA 1912, J.D. 1914	Steven Chu, Ph.D. 1976, Nobel laureate and current United States Secretary of Energy	Norman Mineta, BS 1953, 14th United States Secretary of Transportation and namesake of the Mineta San Jose International Airport	Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway (center), BA 1999	First female Jennifer Granholm, BA 1984
Steve Wozniak, BS 1986, co-founder of Apple Computer	Gordon Moore, BS 1950, co-founder of semiconductor company Intel	Thomas Schelling, BA 1944, Nobel laureate	Hamilton O. Smith, BA 1952, Nobel laureate	Robert Laughlin, BA 1972, Nobel laureate
Andrew Fire, BA 1978, Nobel laureate	Dana Scott, BS 1954, recipient of the Turing Award	Turing Award laureate Ken Thompson (left), BS 1965, MS 1966, with fellow laureate and colleague Dennis Ritchie (right); together, they created Unix	The computer mouse was invented by Turing Award laureate Doug Engelbart, B. Eng. 1952, Ph.D. 1955	Jay Miner, BS 1959, "father of the Amiga computer"
Academy Award winning actor Gregory Peck, BA 1939	Academy Award winning documentary director Freida Lee Mock, BA 1961	Emmy- and Golden Globe Award- award winning actress Kathy Baker, BA 1977	Scott Adams, MBA 1986, creator of the comic strip Dilbert	Singer Stephan Jenkins, BA 1987, of Third Eye Blind
Guitarist Jade Puget, BA 1996, of AFI	Natalie Coughlin, BA 2005, Olympic gold medalist	Jonny Moseley, BA 2007, Olympic gold medalist	Tom Anderson, BA 1998, Co-founder and president of MySpace	Captain Glen Edwards, BS 1941, namesake of Edwards Air Force Base (where the space shuttle has landed 53 times )
Astronaut James van Hoften, BS 1966	Astronaut Margaret Rhea Seddon, BS 1970	First Chinese-American astronaut Leroy Chiao, BS 1983	Astronaut Rex Walheim, BS 1984	First repeat space tourist and Microsoft billionaire Charles Simonyi, BS 1972
Roxann Dawson, BA 1980, actress ( B'Elanna Torres on the television series Star Trek: Voyager), director, author, and playwright	Chris Pine, BA 2002, actor (Captain James Tiberius Kirk in the 2009 movie Star Trek)	John Cho, BA 1996, actor ( Hikaru Sulu in the 2009 movie Star Trek)	Celebrity chef Alice Waters, BA 1967, founder of Chez Panisse and the originator of California cuisine; food activist in the slow food movement	Lillian Moller Gilbreth,BA 1900, MA 1902, industrial/organizational psychologist and subject of the book (and film) Cheaper by the Dozen