University Of California-Berkeley

The University of California Berkeley was established in 1868 in the years following the California gold rush by the leaders of the newly founded state. It is the oldest campus affiliated with the University of California.

UC Berkeley is a highly regarded institution -- the university has been ranked by a National Research Council study as as being first in the US for the number of graduate programs that place in the top ten in their respective fields. The school's past and present faculty have won 20 Nobel prizes. The school reports that its current faculty includes 28 MacArthur Fellows, and 4 Pulitzer Prize winners. The school's history is full of innovation and discovery -- for example UC Berkeley was where vitamin E was discovered, the flu virus isolated, and the US's first no-fault divorce law was drafted. The school's library system is one of the US's largest -- it has been ranked as the top public and third overall university library in North America.

The campus includes more than 1,200 acres of land in Berkeley, California, which is across San Francisco Bay from San Francisco and is adjacent to Oakland.

UC Berkeley's various academic units offer more than 350 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. These units include:

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

UC Berkeley has a rich sports tradition. Its athletic teams compete as the California Golden Bears. Over the years the Golden Bears have won national collegiate titles in football, basketball, baseball, softball, water polo, rugby and crew. Its students have also won over 100 Olympic medals.

There are more than 40 fraternities and a large number of sororities at the University of California Berkeley. These fraternities and sororities are governed by the Inter-Fraternity Council, the Panhellenic Council, the Multicultural Greek Council and the National Pan-Hellenic Conference.

Campus Location

Berkeley, CA 94720
USA
Main Tel: (510) 642-6000
Web Site

The campus is in a medium-sized city.

Highlights

Where the school stands out most compared to other schools (details below):

Many students concentrating in science, architecture and planning, mathematics, liberal arts, engineering, religion and philosophy, law, and conservation and resource management.
Large number of programs of study offered.
Large number of students.
High faculty salary.
Selective admissions.
High SAT scores (combined Verbal and Math).
Racially diverse student body.
High male/female ratio.

Other important characteristics:

Faculty tenure system
Library on-campus
Campus housing available
Study abroad option
Part-time classes available
ROTC
Athlete financial aid

Degrees Awarded (in 2008-2009)

Degree	Total Earned	Different Programs
Bachelor	6,960	90
Master	2,053	76
Doctorale	873	81
First-professional degree	345	2
Postbaccalaureate certificate	115	2
First-professional certificate	13	1

Students

Student enrollment was 34,940 in 2007-2008 (35,645 full-time equivalent).

About 45% of the freshmen class in 2008-2009 was male and women were 55% of the class.

Undergrads are 72% of enrolled students, graduate students are 25%, and those seeking first-professional graduate degrees represent 3%.

About 3% of freshmen are from countries other than the US. Students living in the US make up 97% of incoming freshmen.

Among freshmen students, 100% are full-time and 0% are part-time.

Tuition and Other Costs (2008-2009)

Item	Cost
State Tuition and fees	$ 7,656
Out-of-state tuition and fees	$ 28,264
Room and board	$ 14,494
Books and supplies	$ 1,268
Other	$ 3,168

Financial Aid: Cal Berkeley participates in US Title IV financial assistance programs.

Please refer to BrainTrack's financial aid articles section for background information.

Similar Schools

Based on computer comparisons against all other US colleges, these schools appear to be most similar to Cal Berkeley:

	School	Location	Enrollment
1	University of California-Los Angeles	Los Angeles, CA	37,476
2	University of California-San Diego	La Jolla, CA	27,020
3	Harvard University	Cambridge, MA	25,690
4	Georgetown University	Washington, DC	14,826
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, MA	10,220
6	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill, NC	28,136
7	Cornell University	Ithaca, NY	19,800
8	Brigham Young University	Provo, UT	34,174
9	University of Maryland-College Park	College Park, MD	36,014
10	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Champaign, IL	42,326

Faculty

Tenure (2008-2009):

Full-Time Faculty		Total
With tenure		1,110
Without tenure; working toward tenure		255
Without tenure; tenure not available		226

Housing and Meals

Cal Berkeley provides on-campus housing for 7,414 of its 35,645 (full-time) students (as of 2008-2009).

Athletics

School sports include football, basketball, baseball, and track. The school is in the Pacific-10 Conference for major sports.

The school offers financial aid for athletes. Of students receiving athletic financial aid, 267 male students received the aid (men were 50% of those receiving aid) and 267 women were awarded financial aid based on athletics (representing 50% of students receiving such aid) .

Admissions (2008-2009)

Applicants	Admitted
Men	22%
Women	25%
All	23%

SAT Test Scores:

SAT	Middle 50%
Verbal	580-710
Math	620-750
Writing	590-710

Programs of Study

(Number of degrees awarded in 2008-2009 in parentheses)

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT (19 awarded)

Agricultural Economics

ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING (302 awarded)

Architecture (BArch, BA/BS, MArch, MA/MS, PhD)
City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning
Landscape Architecture (BS, BSLA, BLA, MSLA, MLA, PhD)

ART STUDIES (109 awarded)

Art/Art Studies

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (1,006 awarded)

Business Administration and Management
Business Administration, Management and Operations

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (172 awarded)

Computer Science
Information Science/Studies

CONSERVATION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (237 awarded)

Environmental Science
Environmental Studies
Forest Management/Forest Resources Management
Forestry
Natural Resources/Conservation
Wood Science and Wood Products/Pulp and Paper Technology

DESIGN (2 awarded)

Design and Visual Communications

DRAMA AND PERFORMING ARTS (39 awarded)

Dance
Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts

EDUCATION AND TEACHING (254 awarded)

Education
Educational Leadership and Administration
Special Education and Teaching

ENGINEERING (1,312 awarded)

Agricultural/Biological Engineering and Bioengineering
Biomedical/Medical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Engineering Physics
Engineering
Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering
Materials Science
Mechanical Engineering
Nuclear Engineering
Operations Research

FAMILY AND SOCIAL WORK (277 awarded)

Public Policy Analysis
Social Work

FINE ARTS (85 awarded)

Art History, Criticism and Conservation

LANDSCAPING AND HORTICULTURE (2 awarded)

Range Science and Management

LAW (532 awarded)

Advanced Legal Research/Studies, Gen (LLM, MCL, MLI, MSL, JSD/SJD)
Law (LLB, JD)
Legal Professions and Studies
Legal Studies

LIBERAL ARTS (3,120 awarded)

African-American/Black Studies
American Indian/Native American Studies
American/United States Studies/Civilization
Ancient/Classical Greek Language and Literature
Anthropology
Asian Studies/Civilization
Asian-American Studies
Celtic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Chinese Language and Literature
Classical/Ancient Mediterranean/Near Eastern Studies & Archaeology
Classics/Classical Languages, Lit & Linguistics
Comparative Literature
Demography and Population Studies
Economics
English Language and Literature
Ethnic, Cultural Minority, and Gender Studies
Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
French Language and Literature
Geography
German Language and Literature
Hispanic-American,Puerto Rican & Mexican-American/Chicano Studies
History
International/Global Studies
Italian Language and Literature
Japanese Language and Literature
Latin American Studies
Latin Language and Literature
Linguistics
Middle/Near Eastern/Semitic Languages, Lit & Linguistics
Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies
Near and Middle Eastern Studies
Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution
Political Science and Government
Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Scandinavian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Slavic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Social Sciences
Sociology
Spanish Language and Literature
Speech and Rhetorical Studies
Urban Studies/Affairs
Women's Studies

MATHEMATICS (242 awarded)

Applied Mathematics
Mathematics
Statistics

MEDIA (274 awarded)

Journalism
Mass Communication/Media Studies

MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION (10 awarded)

Environmental Health
Health/Health Care Administration/Management

MEDICINE (316 awarded)

Neuroscience
Optometry (OD)
Public Health, General (MPH, DPH)

MUSIC (46 awarded)

Music

NUTRITION AND EXERCISE THERAPY (74 awarded)

Nutrition Sciences

PHOTOGRAPHY AND COMMERCIAL ART (50 awarded)

Film/Cinema Studies

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY (108 awarded)

Buddhist Studies
Jewish/Judaic Studies
Logic
Philosophy
Religion/Religious Studies

SCIENCE (1,370 awarded)

Astrophysics
Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology
Biochemistry
Biology/Biological Sciences
Biophysics
Biostatistics
Botany/Plant Biology
Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology
Chemistry
Endocrinology
Epidemiology
Geology/Earth Science
Geophysics and Seismology
Microbiological Sciences and Immunology
Microbiology
Oceanography, Chemical and Physical
Physical Sciences
Physics
Toxicology
Vision Science/Physiological Optics

THERAPY AND COUNSELING (401 awarded)

Cognitive Science
Psychology