A university with private parking for Nobel laureates, Berkeley is renowned as one of the best universities in the world for training physicists, economists and high-tech specialists. The diploma of the Haas Business School is highly rated, and the university itself constantly occupies the top lines in the rankings.

Story

Berkeley University is inferior in age not only to European universities, but also to educational institutions of the US East Coast. The history of the American West, often referred to as the "Wild", is very different, and local universities were founded not by the first settlers from the Old World, but by Americans discovering new regions. Berkeley was founded in 1868 at the height of the Gold Rush. Now the University of Berkeley is part of the system of public California universities, which unites 10 universities, but in the 19th century, Berkeley was the first and only university in the newly formed state. By that time, there was already a private California College (College of California) and the State College of Agriculture, Mining and Mechanical Arts (Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College). Through the merger of these educational institutions, the University of Berkeley was formed.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the new president of the university was able to attract new teachers to the university, and also provided funding for research and scholarships. By the middle of the century, Berkeley was known to the world as a major research center. During the Second World War, research was carried out here to create an atomic bomb. In the 1960s, the university was at the center of student unrest, and although the intensity of political activity has long subsided, the University of Berkeley is still famous for its liberal atmosphere and pacifist sentiments. Berkeley itself is known as the "City of Learning".

Programs

Berkeley offers nearly 8,000 courses and 350 programs leading to a bachelor's, master's, or PhD degree. The university ranks first among the number of annually awarded doctoral degrees. Berkeley is a multidisciplinary university where you can study the liberal arts, sciences, and engineering. The most popular programs are Computer Science, Economics, Political Science, Business Administration and Psychology.

Number of students A: Berkeley has over 36,000 students, with almost 26,000 undergraduate students.

Famous Alumni. Media mogul William Randolph Hearst, actor Gregory Pack, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and 29 Nobel laureates have studied at Berkeley. He studied at Berkeley, but the writer Jack London did not graduate from the university.

UNIVERSITY STRUCTURE

The University of Berkeley consists of 14 colleges and schools, most of which are divided into departmental departments. Unlike many other universities, Berkeley College is not a purely undergraduate department. Many Berkeley colleges offer a master's degree and research work leading to a PhD degree.

• College of Liberal Arts and Sciences(College of Letters and Science) is the largest college in Berkeley. Consists of 60 departments-departments and offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate programs in Biology, Art, Humanities, Physics and Social Sciences.
  College website: www.ls.berkeley.edu
• Walter Haas School of Business(Haas School of Business) is a prestigious business school where you can get a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, as well as a doctoral degree in business and economics.
  School website: www.haas.berkeley.edu
• College of Chemistry(College of Chemistry) consists of the Department of "Chemistry" and "Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering". Undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate programs are offered.
  College website: www.chemistry.berkeley.edu
• Graduate School of Education(Graduate School of Education) prepares educators, civil servants and legislators for the education sector.
  School website: www.gse.berkeley.edu
• College of Applied Sciences(College of Engineering) offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate programs in Bioengineering, Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering and Nuclear Engineering.
  College website: www.engineering.berkeley.edu
• College of Environmental Design(College of Environmental Design) awards bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban and regional planning.
  College website: www.ced.berkeley.edu
• School of Information(School of Information) is the youngest and smallest school in Berkeley. The school offers master's and postgraduate programs focused on research work in the field of information creation and communication. Among the subjects studied are computer science, design, sociology, management and law.
  School website: www.ischool.berkeley.edu
• Graduate School of Journalism(Graduate School of Journalism) - a prestigious faculty of journalism, where you can get a master's degree.
  School website: www.journalism.berkeley.edu
• School of Law(School of Law) - a very respected division of the University of Berkeley, which annually accepts less than three hundred out of 7 thousand applicants.
  School website: www.law.berkeley.edu
• College of Natural Resources(College of Natural Resources) includes the departments of agricultural economics, ecology, agricultural management and environmental protection. Bachelor's, Master's and Doctor of Science degrees are awarded.
  College website: www.nature.berkeley.edu
• School of Optometry(School of Optometry) is engaged in research and teaching work in the field of optometry.
  School website: www.optometry.berkeley.edu
• School of Public Health(School of Public Health) offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate programs in biostatistics, epidemiology, public health management, vaccinology, nutrition, maternal and child health.
  School website: www.sph.berkeley.edu
• Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy(Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy) awards master's and doctoral degrees in public administration.
  School website: www.gspp.berkeley.edu
• School of Social Welfare(School of Social Welfare) trains specialists in the social service and is engaged in research in the field of social policy.
  School website: www.socialwelfare.berkeley.edu

The structure of the university also includes three central libraries, 18 specialized and 11 specialized libraries.

ADMISSION CONDITIONS

Undergraduate

Graduates of secondary schools, including Russian ones, can enter the Berkeley undergraduate program. When considering applications, the selection committee takes into account two main points - meeting the requirements of the university and selecting the best students from the applicants who applied. Therefore, everything is important - grades, academic success, and personal qualities.

Applicants must provide the results of the ACT Plus Writing or SAT Reasoning Test, information about the grades received in high school (if you plan to start studying at the university immediately after school, but you do not need to wait for a certificate, you can provide transcripts of grades starting from grade 9, and provide an official certificate after receiving it and enrolling in the university). Recommendations are not required for undergraduate admission, but some schools and departments may require them.

Applicants who have completed their secondary education in a language other than English must also provide TOEFL or IELTS scores.

General information for undergraduate applicants: www.admissions.berkeley.edu

Information for undergraduate international students: www.admissions.berkeley.edu/internationalstudents

Master's and Postgraduate Studies

The basic requirements for admission to graduate programs at Berkeley are a bachelor's degree, a high grade point average for the diploma, and the necessary experience for research work (this is especially important for graduate students).

In addition to the basic requirements, many schools and faculties have their own requirements, including the results of the GRE or GMAT exams. Specify in advance what are the requirements for admission to your chosen specialization. Foreigners educated in a language other than English are also required to provide TOEFL scores. You will also need three recommendations, and in some cases an essay or motivation letter, why you want to study in this program and in Berkeley.

Information for graduate and graduate applicants: www.grad.berkeley.edu/admissions/apply/

MBA

The main criteria for selection to a business school are the candidate's professional experience, academic abilities and personal qualities. Applicants must fill out an application online, attach a resume, essay, references, transcripts of grades obtained (for example, in undergraduate studies), GMAT or GRE test results, TOEFL or IELTS test results. After reviewing the application, the business school invites candidates for an interview, which can be held on campus or in different cities around the world.

Business School Admission Information: www.mba.haas.berkeley.edu/admissions/

COST OF TRAINING (per year):

• Undergraduate. 13 thousand dollars
• Master's degree. From $13,000 to $29,000. The most expensive programs are Business, Law, Medicine, and Architecture.
• Postgraduate. From $13,000 to $29,000. Tuition fees are usually covered by scholarships and grants. Graduate students also receive salaries for teaching and research work.
• MBA. 28 thousand dollars

Scholarships

More than 60% of undergraduate students receive financial assistance to pay for tuition - full or partial. Most often, scholarships are provided by external private foundations. About a third of students receive scholarships based on low family income. According to statistics, there are more low-income students at Berkeley on scholarships than at all Ivy League universities combined.

General financial aid information for Berkeley students: www.berkeley.edu/apply/aid.shtml

Information about scholarships and grants for undergraduate students: www.admissions.berkeley.edu/typesofaid

Master's and PhD students can receive a scholarship or research grant. As a rule, all graduate students receive financial assistance in various forms, covering the cost of education.

Information about scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students: www.grad.berkeley.edu/financial/fellowships/

UC Berkeley is one of the top public universities in the US and the world. Founded by a group of higher education advocates in 1868, and made famous by its Free Speech Movement in 1964, Berkeley has become a place where talent from all over the world meets, discovers, asks questions, and changes the world for the better. With over 100 bachelor's programs and dozens of other academic opportunities, you'll be part of the legacy of Berkeley success. You have to study with the best students in the world under the guidance of outstanding teachers.

During the gold rush, when hundreds of thousands of people came to California, the University of California was founded in the state. This happened in the process of merging two institutions - the private College of California in Oakland and the new state College of Agriculture, Mining and Mechanical Engineering. The heads of educational institutions decided that together they have a great future. The newly opened university consisted of 10 teachers and 40 students.

The University of California at Berkeley is proud of its faculty and alumni and their outstanding achievements: 7 Nobel Prize winners (teaching at the university today), 77 faculty members are Fulbright Scholars, 87 university sports team victories in the national championship. 103 gold, 47 silver and 33 bronze medals of the Olympic Games were won by our students and graduates. Today, the university has 3 Fields Prize winners, 4 Pulitzer Prize winners, 32 MacArthur Fellows, 3 Turing Award winners, 13 US National Science Medal winners, 141 members of the National Academy of Sciences from among the university faculty. 29 of our graduates have become Nobel Prize winners.

The University of California, Berkeley has been ranked #1 in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings of public universities in the United States. The university has held the first position in the ranking for 17 years. It also took 3rd place among the best universities in the world, behind only Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Year of foundation

Location

California

Number of students

Academic Specialization

The University of Berkeley has 14 faculties and colleges:

• Chemical: Includes the departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.
• Educations: Master's and doctoral programs, teacher training programs, bachelor's continuing education program and leadership development courses.
• Engineering: Includes the Departments of Bioengineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical and Computer Science, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Materials Science and Engineering, and Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering.
• Environmental Design: Includes the Departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning.
• Business School Haas: Bachelor's Degree Programs, Master's Degree Programs in Business Administration and Executive Education.
• Information: Master's and second higher education programs in information management systems and data processing and analysis.
• Journalism: Two-year practical program "Master of Journalism".
• School of Law: Offers Juris Doctor and Juris Doctor programs, and is the first law school in the United States to offer master's and graduate programs in law and social policy.
• Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences: The university's largest college includes over 60 departments of biological sciences, arts and humanities, physical and social sciences.
• Natural Resources: Includes the Departments of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Environmental Policy, Science and Management, and Botany and Microbiology.
• Optometry: Professional training program in optometry.
• Public Health: Master's and PhD programs in numerous areas of health care.
• School of Public Policy. Richard and Rhoda Goldman: Graduate and Postgraduate Programs.
• Social Security: Offers master's programs, parallel master's, postgraduate and professional training programs.

Founded in 1868, located in Berkeley, California, covers an area of ​​about 5 square kilometers. The University of Berkeley is an integral part of the University of California, its main and oldest campus. The university has the status of a public university; it is funded by the State of California (about a third of the university's total budget), and is governed by a Board appointed by the State Governor.

Berkeley physicists played a key role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II and the hydrogen bomb afterward. Berkeley scientists invented the cyclotron, explored the antiproton, played a key role in the development of the laser, explained the processes underlying photosynthesis, and discovered many chemical elements, including seaborgium, plutonium, berkelium, lawrencium, and californium. 24 scientists from Berkeley were awarded the Nobel Prize, most of them for merits in the fields of chemistry, physics and economics.

More than 22 thousand people study here, more than 8 thousand graduate students. The rector of the University of Berkeley is Robert Birgenau. Berkeley is home to 14 colleges and institutes, which are subdivided into 130 departments.

History in facts:

2007 Representatives of the University of California at Berkeley on Wednesday announced the placement of videos of various lectures and events that took place within the walls of the educational institution at different times on the free Internet portal YouTube. Berkeley was the first university to take such a step. More than 300 hours of recordings are now available at www.youtube.com/ucberkeley, including classes in biotechnology, political science, chemistry, and lectures such as "Physics for Future Presidents" or "Search, Google and Life" by Google founder Sergey Brin.

The university plans to gradually add new videos to YouTube, but now the collection has nine full courses of 40 lectures each. The Berkeley website had a video section as early as 2001, and in 2006, the iTunes online store began providing access to university podcasts. According to representatives of the university, open access to information corresponds to the ideology of the university as a public institution.

2002 The University of Berkeley has introduced a new weblog course. Students of the Faculty of Journalism are taught weekly the principles of working with blogs and how to get information from them. The course instructor is one of the founders of the news site Wired, John Batel. The introduction of such a course in one of the most prestigious higher educational institutions in the United States suggests that the weblog, as a form of journalism, has received recognition from specialists.

A university with private parking for Nobel laureates, Berkeley is renowned as one of the best universities in the world for training physicists, economists and high-tech specialists. The diploma of the Haas Business School is highly rated, and the university itself constantly occupies the top lines in the rankings.

Story

Berkeley University is inferior in age not only to European universities, but also to educational institutions of the US East Coast. The history of the American West, often referred to as the "Wild", is very different, and local universities were founded not by the first settlers from the Old World, but by Americans discovering new regions. Berkeley was founded in 1868 at the height of the Gold Rush. Now the University of Berkeley is part of the system of public California universities, which unites 10 universities, but in the 19th century, Berkeley was the first and only university in the newly formed state. By that time, there was already a private California College (College of California) and the State College of Agriculture, Mining and Mechanical Arts (Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College). Through the merger of these educational institutions, the University of Berkeley was formed.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the new president of the university was able to attract new teachers to the university, and also provided funding for research and scholarships. By the middle of the century, Berkeley was known to the world as a major research center. During the Second World War, research was carried out here to create an atomic bomb. In the 1960s, the university was at the center of student unrest, and although the intensity of political activity has long subsided, the University of Berkeley is still famous for its liberal atmosphere and pacifist sentiments. Berkeley itself is known as the "City of Learning".

Programs

Berkeley offers nearly 8,000 courses and 350 programs leading to a bachelor's, master's, or PhD degree. The university ranks first among the number of annually awarded doctoral degrees. Berkeley is a multidisciplinary university where you can study the liberal arts, sciences, and engineering. The most popular programs are Computer Science, Economics, Political Science, Business Administration and Psychology.

Number of students A: Berkeley has over 36,000 students, with almost 26,000 undergraduate students.

Famous Alumni. Media mogul William Randolph Hearst, actor Gregory Pack, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and 29 Nobel laureates have studied at Berkeley. He studied at Berkeley, but the writer Jack London did not graduate from the university.

UNIVERSITY STRUCTURE

The University of Berkeley consists of 14 colleges and schools, most of which are divided into departmental departments. Unlike many other universities, Berkeley College is not a purely undergraduate department. Many Berkeley colleges offer a master's degree and research work leading to a PhD degree.

• College of Liberal Arts and Sciences(College of Letters and Science) is the largest college in Berkeley. Consists of 60 departments-departments and offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate programs in Biology, Art, Humanities, Physics and Social Sciences.
  College website: www.ls.berkeley.edu
• Walter Haas School of Business(Haas School of Business) is a prestigious business school where you can get a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, as well as a doctoral degree in business and economics.
  School website: www.haas.berkeley.edu
• College of Chemistry(College of Chemistry) consists of the Department of "Chemistry" and "Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering". Undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate programs are offered.
  College website: www.chemistry.berkeley.edu
• Graduate School of Education(Graduate School of Education) prepares educators, civil servants and legislators for the education sector.
  School website: www.gse.berkeley.edu
• College of Applied Sciences(College of Engineering) offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate programs in Bioengineering, Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering and Nuclear Engineering.
  College website: www.engineering.berkeley.edu
• College of Environmental Design(College of Environmental Design) awards bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban and regional planning.
  College website: www.ced.berkeley.edu
• School of Information(School of Information) is the youngest and smallest school in Berkeley. The school offers master's and postgraduate programs focused on research work in the field of information creation and communication. Among the subjects studied are computer science, design, sociology, management and law.
  School website: www.ischool.berkeley.edu
• Graduate School of Journalism(Graduate School of Journalism) - a prestigious faculty of journalism, where you can get a master's degree.
  School website: www.journalism.berkeley.edu
• School of Law(School of Law) - a very respected division of the University of Berkeley, which annually accepts less than three hundred out of 7 thousand applicants.
  School website: www.law.berkeley.edu
• College of Natural Resources(College of Natural Resources) includes the departments of agricultural economics, ecology, agricultural management and environmental protection. Bachelor's, Master's and Doctor of Science degrees are awarded.
  College website: www.nature.berkeley.edu
• School of Optometry(School of Optometry) is engaged in research and teaching work in the field of optometry.
  School website: www.optometry.berkeley.edu
• School of Public Health(School of Public Health) offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate programs in biostatistics, epidemiology, public health management, vaccinology, nutrition, maternal and child health.
  School website: www.sph.berkeley.edu
• Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy(Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy) awards master's and doctoral degrees in public administration.
  School website: www.gspp.berkeley.edu
• School of Social Welfare(School of Social Welfare) trains specialists in the social service and is engaged in research in the field of social policy.
  School website: www.socialwelfare.berkeley.edu

The structure of the university also includes three central libraries, 18 specialized and 11 specialized libraries.

ADMISSION CONDITIONS

Undergraduate

Graduates of secondary schools, including Russian ones, can enter the Berkeley undergraduate program. When considering applications, the selection committee takes into account two main points - meeting the requirements of the university and selecting the best students from the applicants who applied. Therefore, everything is important - grades, academic success, and personal qualities.

Applicants must provide the results of the ACT Plus Writing or SAT Reasoning Test, information about the grades received in high school (if you plan to start studying at the university immediately after school, but you do not need to wait for a certificate, you can provide transcripts of grades starting from grade 9, and provide an official certificate after receiving it and enrolling in the university). Recommendations are not required for undergraduate admission, but some schools and departments may require them.

Applicants who have completed their secondary education in a language other than English must also provide TOEFL or IELTS scores.

General information for undergraduate applicants: www.admissions.berkeley.edu

Information for undergraduate international students: www.admissions.berkeley.edu/internationalstudents

Master's and Postgraduate Studies

The basic requirements for admission to graduate programs at Berkeley are a bachelor's degree, a high grade point average for the diploma, and the necessary experience for research work (this is especially important for graduate students).

In addition to the basic requirements, many schools and faculties have their own requirements, including the results of the GRE or GMAT exams. Specify in advance what are the requirements for admission to your chosen specialization. Foreigners educated in a language other than English are also required to provide TOEFL scores. You will also need three recommendations, and in some cases an essay or motivation letter, why you want to study in this program and in Berkeley.

Information for graduate and graduate applicants: www.grad.berkeley.edu/admissions/apply/

MBA

The main criteria for selection to a business school are the candidate's professional experience, academic abilities and personal qualities. Applicants must fill out an application online, attach a resume, essay, references, transcripts of grades obtained (for example, in undergraduate studies), GMAT or GRE test results, TOEFL or IELTS test results. After reviewing the application, the business school invites candidates for an interview, which can be held on campus or in different cities around the world.

Business School Admission Information: www.mba.haas.berkeley.edu/admissions/

COST OF TRAINING (per year):

• Undergraduate. 13 thousand dollars
• Master's degree. From $13,000 to $29,000. The most expensive programs are Business, Law, Medicine, and Architecture.
• Postgraduate. From $13,000 to $29,000. Tuition fees are usually covered by scholarships and grants. Graduate students also receive salaries for teaching and research work.
• MBA. 28 thousand dollars

Scholarships

More than 60% of undergraduate students receive financial assistance to pay for tuition - full or partial. Most often, scholarships are provided by external private foundations. About a third of students receive scholarships based on low family income. According to statistics, there are more low-income students at Berkeley on scholarships than at all Ivy League universities combined.

General financial aid information for Berkeley students: www.berkeley.edu/apply/aid.shtml

Information about scholarships and grants for undergraduate students: www.admissions.berkeley.edu/typesofaid

Master's and PhD students can receive a scholarship or research grant. As a rule, all graduate students receive financial assistance in various forms, covering the cost of education.

Information about scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students: www.grad.berkeley.edu/financial/fellowships/

students Bachelors Masters and Doctors teachers Colors

The university is world famous as one of the best centers for training specialists in computer and IT technologies, economics, and physics. Berkeley physicists played a key role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II and the hydrogen bomb afterward. Berkeley scientists invented the cyclotron, explored the antiproton, played a key role in the development of the laser, explained the processes behind photosynthesis, and discovered many chemical elements, including seaborgium, plutonium, berkelium, lawrencium, and californium. It was at Berkeley that the operating system got its start. BSD(and BSD license) .

Berkeley is known for its history of student activism. The most famous shares: Free Speech Movement in 1964 - a protest that began after the university tried to remove distributors of political pamphlets from the campus and Uprising in the people's park in 1968, held during a wave of protests by foreign students that swept in the 1960s, associated with the "hippie" culture. However, despite the student activism and rebellion, the Berkeley campus, with its many green spaces and buildings known for its architecture, is surprisingly calm.

Story

In 1866, the area where the Berkeley campus is now located was acquired by the private California College, founded by a Congrenate priest. Henry Durant in 1855. Not having enough money to exist, on May 23, 1868, the California College merged with the state College of Agriculture, Mining and Mechanical Engineering thus forming the University of California. Durant became the university's first president. In 1869, the university opened in Oakland in the buildings of the former California College. In 1873, after the completion of the building of the Northern and Southern halls, the university moved to Berkeley. At that time, 167 young people and 222 female students studied there.

The University has matured under the leadership Benjamin Yde Wheeler, who was president of the university from 1919 to 1919 . His reputation grew when the president was able to attract new faculty to the university and secure funds for research and scholarships. The campus began to look like a modern university, with beauzare and neoclassical buildings designed by the architect John Galen Howard. These buildings form the core of modern architecture at Berkeley.

Robert Gordon Sproul took over the presidency in 1930, and during his 28-year tenure, Berkeley gained international fame as one of the university's major research centers. Before taking office, Sproul makes a six-month trip to other renowned universities and colleges around the world, both to study their methods of teaching and management, and to establish contacts through which he could attract talented scientists to his university in the future.

Despite declining funding during the Great Depression and World War II, Sproul maintained the level of science and education by attracting private funds. In 1942 American Board of Education named Berkeley as the second most distinguished university after Harvard.

During World War II, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory began working with the US Army to develop an atomic bomb based on Berkeley's cutting-edge research in nuclear physics (given Glenn Seaborg's then secret discovery of plutonium). Physics professor Robert Oppenheimer was appointed scientific director of the Manhattan Project in 1942. Room 307 in Gilman Hall, where Seaborg discovered plutonium, is now a historical landmark. Two other laboratories that are operated by the University of California, Los Alamos and Livermore, were founded at the same time in and 1952, respectively.

The academic achievements of the university suffered little from the student riots during the 1964 Free Speech Movement. Student protests continued into the early 1970s, sometimes even more violent than in the past. Anti-war campaigns turned into riots: for example, in 1967, the police were forced to use tear gas against the crowd. In 1969, a group of Berkeley students took over empty territory "People's Park" on which the University planned to build a hostel. California Gov. Ronald Reagan, who promised during the campaign to "clean up the garbage" at Berkeley, removed Provost Kerr a few weeks after he took office because Kerr refused to ban the Free Speech Movement. The campus was occupied by National Guard troops as a result. The university subsequently surrendered, but only after several dozen people were hospitalized, one policeman was wounded and one student was killed.

Today, Berkeley students are much less politically active, even compared to faculty, and their opinions are closer to those of most Americans. But the university is still one of the main centers of protests against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

University structure

Rectors

The position of rector was created in 1952 during the reorganization of the University of California, since then ten rectors (and one acting rector) have held the post:

1. Clark Kerr (1952-1958)
2. Glenn Seaborg (1958-1961)
3. Edward Strong (1961-1965)
4. Martin Meyerson(1965, acting)
5. Roger Gaines (1965-1971)
6. Albert Bowker (1971-1980)
7. Ira Michael Heyman (1980-1990)
8. Chang-Lee Tien (1990-1997)
9. Robert Berdahl (1997-2004)
10. Robert Birzheno (2004-2013)
11. Nicholas Dirks(2013 - present)

Subdivisions

With 130 faculties of Berkeley, 14 colleges and schools are organized. (“Colleges” can be for undergraduate and graduate students, while “schools” are only graduate students, in particular Schools of Business):

• Walter Haas School of Business
• College of Chemistry
• School of Education
• College of Engineering
• College of External Design
• School of Journalism
• Boalt Law School
• School of Information Technology
• College of Letters and Science
• College of Natural Resources
• School of Optometry
• School of Public Health
• Goldman School of Public Policy
• School of Social Protection

In astronomy

The asteroid (716) Berkeley, discovered in 1911, is named after the university.

Statistics

• Number of applicants: 50,312 people, of which 25.6% were accepted for enrollment
• Number of students: 35,899
  • Bachelors: 25,774
  • Masters and Doctors: 10,125

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• Gray A. Brechin. Imperial San Francisco: urban power, earthly ruin. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1999. - 402 p. - ISBN 0-520-21568-0..
• Susan Dinkelspiel Cerny. Berkeley landmarks: an illustrated guide to Berkeley, California's architectural heritage. - Berkeley, California : Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association, 2001. - 302 p. - ISBN 0-9706676-0-4.
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“Well, come and drink some tea.” Together.
And Natasha stood up on tiptoe and walked out of the room the way dancers do, but smiling the way happy 15-year-old girls smile. Having met Sonya in the living room, Rostov blushed. He didn't know how to deal with her. Yesterday they kissed in the first moment of the joy of meeting, but today they felt that it was impossible to do this; he felt that everyone, both mother and sisters, looked at him inquiringly and expected from him how he would behave with her. He kissed her hand and called her you - Sonya. But their eyes, having met, said “you” to each other and kissed tenderly. With her eyes, she asked him for forgiveness for the fact that at Natasha's embassy she dared to remind him of his promise and thanked him for his love. He thanked her with his eyes for the offer of freedom and said that one way or another, he would never stop loving her, because it was impossible not to love her.
“How strange, however,” said Vera, choosing a general moment of silence, “that Sonya and Nikolenka now met like strangers. - Vera's remark was just, like all her remarks; but, like most of her remarks, everyone became embarrassed, and not only Sonya, Nikolai and Natasha, but also the old countess, who was afraid of her son’s love for Sonya, which could deprive him of a brilliant party, also blushed like a girl. Denisov, to Rostov's surprise, in a new uniform, pomaded and perfumed, appeared in the living room as dandy as he was in battles, and so amiable with ladies and gentlemen, which Rostov did not expect to see him.

Returning to Moscow from the army, Nikolai Rostov was adopted by his family as the best son, hero and beloved Nikolushka; relatives - as a sweet, pleasant and respectful young man; acquaintances - as a handsome hussar lieutenant, a clever dancer and one of the best grooms in Moscow.
The Rostovs knew all of Moscow; the old count had enough money this year, because all the estates were mortgaged, and therefore Nikolushka, having got his own trotter and the most fashionable trousers, special ones that no one else in Moscow had, and boots, the most fashionable, with the most pointed socks and little silver spurs, had a lot of fun. Rostov, returning home, experienced a pleasant feeling after a certain period of time trying on himself for the old conditions of life. It seemed to him that he had matured and grown very much. Despair for an examination that was not consistent with the law of God, borrowing money from Gavrila for a cab, secret kisses with Sonya, he recalled all this as about childishness, from which he was immeasurably far away now. Now he is a hussar lieutenant in a silver cape, with a soldier's Georgy, preparing his trotter for a run, along with well-known hunters, elderly, respectable. He has a familiar lady on the boulevard, to whom he goes in the evening. He conducted a mazurka at a ball at the Arkharovs, talked about the war with Field Marshal Kamensky, visited an English club, and was on you with one forty-year-old colonel, whom Denisov introduced him to.
His passion for the sovereign somewhat weakened in Moscow, since during this time he did not see him. But he often talked about the sovereign, about his love for him, making it feel that he still did not tell everything, that there was something else in his feeling for the sovereign that could not be understood by everyone; and wholeheartedly shared the feeling of adoration common at that time in Moscow for Emperor Alexander Pavlovich, who at that time in Moscow was given the name of an angel in the flesh.
During this short stay of Rostov in Moscow, before leaving for the army, he did not get close, but, on the contrary, parted ways with Sonya. She was very pretty, sweet, and obviously passionately in love with him; but he was in that time of his youth, when it seems there is so much to do that there is no time to do it, and the young man is afraid to get involved - he values ​​\u200b\u200bhis freedom, which he needs for many other things. When he thought of Sonya during this new sojourn in Moscow, he said to himself: Eh! there are still many, many of these will be and are there, somewhere, still unknown to me. I still have time, when I want, to make love, but now there is no time. In addition, it seemed to him that something humiliating for his courage in women's society. He went to balls and sororities, pretending to do so against his will. Running, an English club, a revelry with Denisov, a trip there - that was another matter: it was decent for a young hussar.
At the beginning of March, the old Count Ilya Andreevich Rostov was preoccupied with arranging a dinner in an English club for the reception of Prince Bagration.
The count in a dressing gown walked around the hall, giving orders to the club housekeeper and the famous Feoktist, the head cook of the English club, about asparagus, fresh cucumbers, strawberries, calf and fish for Prince Bagration's dinner. The count, from the day the club was founded, was its member and foreman. He was entrusted from the club with organizing a celebration for Bagration, because rarely anyone knew how to organize a feast in such a wide hand, hospitably, especially because rarely anyone knew how and wanted to put their money if they were needed for a feast. The cook and housekeeper of the club, with merry faces, listened to the count's orders, because they knew that under no one, as under him, it was better to profit from a dinner that cost several thousand.
- So look, scallops, put scallops in the cake, you know! “So there were three cold ones? ...” the cook asked. The Count considered. “It can’t be less, three…mayonnaise times,” he said, bending his finger…
- So you will order the big sterlets to take? the housekeeper asked. - What to do, take it, if they do not yield. Yes, you are my father, I had and forgot. After all, we need another entree on the table. Ah, my fathers! He grabbed his head. Who will bring me flowers?
- Mitinka! And Mitinka! Ride on, Mitinka, to the Moscow region, ”he turned to the manager who had come in at his call,“ jump to the Moscow region and tell the gardener to dress up Maximka’s corvée. Tell them to drag all the greenhouses here, wrap them in felt. Yes, so that I have two hundred pots here by Friday.
Having given more and more different orders, he went out to rest with the countess, but remembered something else he needed, returned himself, returned the cook and housekeeper, and again began to give orders. At the door was heard a light, masculine gait, the rattling of spurs, and a handsome, ruddy, with a blackening mustache, apparently rested and well-groomed by a quiet life in Moscow, entered the young count.
- Ah, my brother! My head is spinning,” said the old man, as if ashamed, smiling in front of his son. - If only you could help! We need more songwriters. I have music, but can I call the gypsies? Your military brethren love it.
“Really, papa, I think Prince Bagration, when he was preparing for the battle of Shengraben, was less busy than you are now,” said the son, smiling.
The old count pretended to be angry. - Yes, you talk, you try!
And the count turned to the cook, who, with an intelligent and respectable face, looked observantly and affectionately at father and son.
- What kind of youth is it, Feoktist? - he said, - laughs at our brother old people.
- Well, Your Excellency, they only want to eat well, but how to collect everything and serve it is none of their business.
- So, so, - the count shouted, and merrily grabbing his son by both hands, he shouted: - So that's it, I got you! Now take a twin sleigh and go to Bezukhov, and say that the count, they say, Ilya Andreevich was sent to ask you for fresh strawberries and pineapples. You won't get anyone else. It’s not there yourself, so you go in, tell the princesses, and from there, that’s what, you go to Razgulay - Ipatka the coachman knows - you find Ilyushka the gypsy there, that’s what Count Orlov then danced, remember, in a white Cossack, and you bring him here to me.
“And bring him here with the gypsies?” Nicholas asked laughing. - Oh well!…
At that moment, with inaudible steps, with a businesslike, preoccupied, and at the same time Christian meek air that never left her, Anna Mikhailovna entered the room. Despite the fact that every day Anna Mikhailovna found the count in a dressing gown, every time he was embarrassed in front of her and asked for an apology for his costume.
“Nothing, Count, my dear,” she said, meekly closing her eyes. “And I’ll go to the Earless,” she said. - Pierre has arrived, and now we will get everything, count, from his greenhouses. I needed to see him. He sent me a letter from Boris. Thank God, Borya is now at headquarters.
The count was delighted that Anna Mikhailovna was taking part of his orders, and ordered her to pawn a small carriage.
- You tell Bezukhov to come. I'll write it down. What is he with his wife? - he asked.
Anna Mikhailovna rolled her eyes, and deep sorrow expressed on her face ...
“Ah, my friend, he is very unhappy,” she said. “If it’s true what we heard, it’s terrible. And did we think when we rejoiced so much at his happiness! And such a high, heavenly soul, this young Bezukhov! Yes, I feel sorry for him from the bottom of my heart and will try to give him the consolation that will depend on me.
- Yes, what is it? both Rostovs, the elder and the younger, asked.
Anna Mikhailovna sighed deeply: “Dolokhov, Marya Ivanovna’s son,” she said in a mysterious whisper, “they say he completely compromised her. He took him out, invited him to his house in St. Petersburg, and now ... She came here, and this rip off her head, ”said Anna Mikhailovna, wanting to express her sympathy for Pierre, but in involuntary intonations and with a half-smile showing sympathy rip off her head, as she named Dolokhova. - They say that Pierre himself is completely killed by his grief.
- Well, all the same, tell him to come to the club - everything will dissipate. The feast will be a mountain.
The next day, March 3, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, 250 members of the English Club and 50 guests were waiting for dinner for the dear guest and hero of the Austrian campaign, Prince Bagration. At first, upon receiving the news of the battle of Austerlitz, Moscow was perplexed. At that time, the Russians were so accustomed to victories that, having received the news of the defeat, some simply did not believe, others were looking for explanations for such a strange event in some unusual reasons. In the English Club, where everything that was noble, having the right information and weight, gathered, in the month of December, when the news began to arrive, nothing was said about the war and about the last battle, as if everyone had agreed to keep silent about it. People who gave direction to conversations, such as: Count Rostopchin, Prince Yuri Vladimirovich Dolgoruky, Valuev, gr. Markov, Prince. Vyazemsky, did not show up at the club, but gathered at home, in their intimate circles, and the Muscovites, who spoke from other people's voices (to which Ilya Andreevich Rostov belonged), remained for a short time without a definite judgment on the cause of the war and without leaders. Muscovites felt that something was not good and that it was difficult to discuss these bad news, and therefore it was better to remain silent. But after a while, as the jurors were leaving the deliberation room, the aces appeared, giving opinions in the club, and everything spoke clearly and definitely. Reasons were found for the incredible, unheard of and impossible event that the Russians were beaten, and everything became clear, and the same thing was said in all corners of Moscow. These reasons were: the betrayal of the Austrians, the bad food of the troops, the betrayal of the Pole Pshebyshevsky and the Frenchman Lanzheron, the incapacity of Kutuzov, and (they spoke slowly) the youth and inexperience of the sovereign, who entrusted himself to bad and insignificant people. But the troops, Russian troops, everyone said, were extraordinary and performed miracles of courage. Soldiers, officers, generals were heroes. But the hero of the heroes was Prince Bagration, who became famous for his Shengraben affair and retreat from Austerlitz, where he alone led his column undisturbed and fought off twice as strong an enemy all day. The fact that Bagration was chosen as a hero in Moscow was also facilitated by the fact that he had no connections in Moscow and was a stranger. In his face, due honor was given to the fighting, simple, without connections and intrigues, Russian soldier, still associated with the memories of the Italian campaign with the name of Suvorov. In addition, in giving him such honors, the dislike and disapproval of Kutuzov was best shown.
- If there was no Bagration, il faudrait l "inventer, [it would be necessary to invent it.] - said the joker Shinshin, parodying the words of Voltaire. Nobody spoke about Kutuzov, and some scolded him in a whisper, calling him a court turntable and an old satyr. Throughout Moscow repeated the words of Prince Dolgorukov: “molding, sculpting and sticking around”, who consoled himself in our defeat with the memory of previous victories, and Rostopchin’s words were repeated that the French soldiers should be excited to fight with high-flown phrases, that the Germans should be logically argued, convincing them that it's more dangerous to run than to go forward, but that Russian soldiers only need to be restrained and asked: be quiet! From all sides more and more stories were heard about individual examples of courage shown by our soldiers and officers at Austerlitz. He saved the banner, he killed 5 Frenchmen , that one loaded 5 guns. They also talked about Berg, who did not know him, that he, wounded in his right hand, took a sword in his left and went forward. Nothing was said about Bolkonsky, and only How close those who knew him regretted that he died early, leaving a pregnant wife and an eccentric father.

On March 3, in all the rooms of the English Club there was a groan of talking voices and, like bees on a spring flight, scurried back and forth, sat, stood, converged and dispersed, in uniforms, tailcoats and some others in powder and caftans, members and guests of the club . Powder-coated, stockinged and clogged footmen in livery stood at every door and tried hard to catch every movement of the guests and members of the club in order to offer their services. Most of those present were old, respectable people with broad, self-confident faces, thick fingers, firm movements and voices. This kind of guests and members sat in well-known, familiar places and met in well-known, familiar circles. A small part of those present consisted of random guests - mostly young people, among whom were Denisov, Rostov and Dolokhov, who was again a Semenov officer. On the faces of young people, especially military ones, there was an expression of that feeling of contemptuous respect for the elderly, which seems to say to the old generation: we are ready to respect and honor you, but remember that the future is still behind us.
Nesvitsky was right there, like an old member of the club. Pierre, on the orders of his wife, let go of his hair, took off his glasses and dressed in fashion, but with a sad and dejected look, walked through the halls. He, as elsewhere, was surrounded by an atmosphere of people who bowed before his wealth, and he treated them with the habit of kingship and absent-minded contempt.