Berkeley, California is the founding campus of the University of California and the first full-time public university in California. The school was founded on March 23rd in Oakland, California, 1868. 1873, the school officially moved to the new location in Berkeley. In 1930s, american council on education conducted a survey of 2000 famous scholars. As a result, Berkeley, California, ranks among the first-class universities in the United States with its "outstanding" and "appropriate" discipline construction-this is the first time that American public universities have challenged Eastern Ivy League universities in more than 200 years. From 65438 to 0942, american council on education ranked the University of California at Berkeley as the second largest university in the United States, second only to Harvard University.
In the 1960s, Berkeley, California, became world-famous during the Vietnam War because students protested against the American government. 1964 The "Freedom of Speech Movement" launched in Berkeley changed generations' views on politics and morality, and Berkeley, California became one of the sources of social change in the United States at that time. Later, in order to commemorate this movement, the "Freedom of Speech Movement Cafe" was established on the campus of Berkeley, California.
The undergraduate program in Berkeley, California is a four-year full-time program. The requirements for undergraduates to complete their studies mainly come from four aspects: University of California system, Berkeley campus, corresponding colleges and departments set up according to their majors. The school's grading system is: letter grades, that is, the scores of each course are given according to five grades: A = 4.0, B = 3.0, C = 2.0, D = 1.0, and F = failure, that is, make-up exams are needed. In addition, the A+ number of each grade will increase by 0.3 GPA (for example, B+=3.3), and the A- number will decrease by 0.3 GPA (for example, A-=3.7), and the maximum is only 4.0, which means that A+ is also 4.0. The most popular majors here are: electronic engineering and computer science, political science, molecular cell biology, environmental science and economics.
The postgraduate degrees in Berkeley, California include: Master of Arts, Master of Science, Master of Fine Arts, Doctor, and some special postgraduate degrees, such as Doctor of Law and Master of Business Administration. It is independent to apply for admission to various graduate programs, and colleges and departments have the right to enroll students independently.
Berkeley, California is dominated by traditional multidisciplinary integration, supplemented by emerging disciplines and professional colleges. There are 14 colleges (including: College of Arts and Sciences, School of Business, School of Chemistry, School of Education, School of Engineering, School of Environmental Design, School of Journalism, School of Law, School of Information, School of Natural Resources, School of Ophthalmology, School of Public Health Care, School of Public Policy and School of Social Welfare), covering 65,438+. 14 college, "college" includes undergraduate and graduate education, "school" only has graduate students, and business school is the only exception. Berkeley * * * offers 106 undergraduate degree programs, 88 master degree programs, 97 academic doctoral programs, and 3 1 career-oriented graduate programs.
As of March 20 18, there were 104 Nobel Prize winners in Berkeley, California, USA (the third in the world). Chen Shengshen, a master of mathematics, established the National Institute of Mathematical Sciences here. Oppenheimer, the "father of the atomic bomb", and others led the Manhattan Project here and made the first atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb. Ernest Lawrence, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, invented the cyclotron here and established Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the top national laboratory in the United States. Seeburg, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and others have found sixteen chemical elements here, which are far ahead in the world, and the 97th element "Berkelium" is named after "Berkeley". In addition, Berkeley has trained a large number of talents for South Bay Silicon Valley, including Gordon Moore, founder of Intel, stephen wozniak, founder of Apple and Mark Tapenning, founder of Tesla. Great writers such as Jack London, Zhang Ailing and Zhao Yuanren all studied or worked here.