University of California, Berkeley is one of the most popular and famous American universities, where thousands of applicants from all over the world dream of studying.
UC Berkeley is located in California – one of the most beautiful and sunny states of America. Near the UC Berkeley campus is the picturesque bay of San Francisco: fresh sea air and warm weather inspire students to study feats and energize them for the whole year.
The history of UC Berkeley dates back to 1868, when California College merged with the State College of Agriculture, Mining and Mechanical Engineering, thereby forming the famous chain of universities in California: UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, UC San Francisco, UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, UC Riverside.
Today, UC Berkeley has over 38,000 students. On the campus, with an area of almost 500 hectares, there are a space research laboratory, a botanical garden, a wellness center, several museums, numerous shops, cafes and restaurants. 40 UC Berkeley libraries house approximately 12 million scientific books, journals, and monographs.
UC Berkeley is considered one of the best universities in the world for the training of specialists in the field of chemistry. UC Berkeley scientists have discovered 16 chemical elements of the periodic system.
UC Berkeley management annually allocates a record budget for research – $ 730 million. Currently, UC Berkeley employs 7 Nobel Prize winners, including Saul Perlmutter (physicist), Oliver Williamson (economics), Yuanzhe Li (chemistry).
Why go to UC Berkeley?
1st place in the ranking of US state educational institutions US News Best Colleges 2017
20th place in the ranking of US universities US News Best Colleges 2017, today there are 5500 universities in the United States. The total rating rating is 78/100 points.
9th place in the world Graduate Employability Ranking
1st place in the ranking of world universities in the specialty “Environmental Engineering”
27th place in the international ranking of QS World University Rankings 2017
1st place in the ranking of US graduate programs in the field of “English”, “History”, “Sociology”, “Electrical and Electronics”, “Ecology”, “Copyright”, “Molecular Biology”, “Chemistry”, “Information Technologies”
In addition, UC Berkeley University is inextricably linked with the names of 72 Nobel laureates, 22 Turing Prize winners (IT prize), 9 Wolf Prize winners (2nd most important prize after the Nobel Prize), 13 Fields Medal winners (prestigious award for mathematicians) .
Get more information on UC Berkeley at: www.berkeley.edu
