University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California)[11][12] is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant university and the founding campus of the University of California system. Its fourteen colleges and schools offer over 350 degree programs and enroll some 32,000 undergraduate and 13,000 graduate students.[6][13] Berkeley ranks among the world's top universities.[14]

University of California, Berkeley

Former names	University of California (1868–1958)
Motto	Fiat lux (Latin)
Motto in English	"Let there be light"
Type	Public land-grant research university
Established	March 23, 1868; 155 years ago (1868-03-23)[1]
Parent institution	University of California
Accreditation	WSCUC
Academic affiliations	AAU IARU URA UCAR APRU Space-grant
Endowment	$6.9 billion (2022)[2][3]
Chancellor	Carol T. Christ
Provost	Benjamin E. Hermalin[4]
Total staff	23,524 (2020)[5]
Students	45,307 (Fall 2022)[6]
Undergraduates	32,479 (Fall 2022)[6]
Postgraduates	12,828 (Fall 2022)[6]
Location	Berkeley , California , United States 37°52′19″N 122°15′31″W[7]
Campus	Midsize City[8] Core Campus: 178 acres (72 ha)[9] Total: 8,164 acres (3,304 ha)[3], 1,232 acres (499 ha)
Newspaper	The Daily Californian
Colors	Berkeley Blue   California Gold[10]
Nickname	Golden Bears
Sporting affiliations	NCAA Division I FBS - Pac-12 MPSF America East
Mascot	Oski the Bear
Website	www.berkeley.edu

A founding member of the Association of American Universities, Berkeley hosts many leading research institutes dedicated to science, engineering, and mathematics.[15] The university founded and maintains close relationships with three national laboratories at Berkeley, Livermore and Los Alamos,[16] and has played a prominent role in many scientific advances, from the Manhattan Project and the discovery of 16 chemical elements to breakthroughs in computer science and genomics.[17] Berkeley is also known for political activism and the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s.[18]

Berkeley's athletic teams, which compete as the California Golden Bears primarily in the Pac-12 Conference, have won 107 national championships, and its students and alumni have won 223 Olympic medals (including 121 gold medals).[19][20]

Among its alumni, faculty and researchers, Berkeley has more Nobel laureates (107),[21][22] Turing Award winners (25), Fields Medalists (14), and Wolf Prize winners (30) than any other public university in the nation; it is affiliated with 34 Pulitzer Prizes, 19 Academy Awards, and more MacArthur "Genius Grants" (108) and National Medals of Science (68) than any other public institution. The university has produced seven heads of state or government; six chief justices, including Chief Justice of the United States Earl Warren;[23] 22 cabinet-level officials; 11 governors; and 25 living billionaires.[24] It is also a leading producer of Fulbright Scholars, MacArthur Fellows, and Marshall Scholars.[25] Berkeley alumni, widely recognized for their entrepreneurship, have founded numerous notable companies, including Apple, Tesla, Intel, eBay, SoftBank, AIG, and Morgan Stanley.[26]