American state colleges and universities. The oldest and most prestigious of the nine campuses of the University of California. 1868 was formed by the merger of California College and Agricultural and Mining Machinery College. The school was originally in Oakland, and 1873 moved to Berkeley near San Francisco. From 65438 to 0899, under the leadership of President Wheeler, the school expanded in scale and scope of disciplines, especially the disciplines of agriculture, humanities and engineering developed rapidly and its reputation gradually improved. From 1930 to 1960, brower served as the principal, vigorously improved the teaching quality and attracted outstanding scholars in nuclear physics, chemistry and biology. The school has 14 colleges of business administration, chemistry, engineering, environmental design, law, arts and sciences, library and information, natural resources, optometry, public health and social welfare, as well as 60 scientific research institutions such as the Graduate School of Education, Journalism and Public Policy and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. The school implements 1 academic year in three semesters, with 4 years of undergraduate courses. After completing 180 credits, you can get a bachelor's degree. Graduate department is the largest graduate department in the United States, with13 graduate students, and about 500 graduate students receive doctoral degrees every year. 1982, the board of directors of the United States Joint Scientific Research Council rated its graduate education as the first in the United States, and 10 ranked among the top 30 disciplines, among which anthropology, chemistry, engineering, history, music, statistics and biostatistics ranked first. Under the leadership of the board of directors of the University of California, Berkeley is managed by the president and academic affairs are handled by the academic Committee. The enrollment conditions are strict, and it is stipulated that middle school graduates who apply for the school can enter the school with an average score of 3.3 or an average score of 500 or more in the aptitude test. Many scholars in this school have won the Nobel Prize.
The University of California, Berkeley, is a world-renowned academic institution, ranking among the best among many authoritative universities. In 2004, The Times Higher World University Ranking ranked the University of California at Berkeley as the second university in the world, second only to Harvard University, and ahead of many famous universities such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oxford University and Stanford University. In the ranking of world universities made by Shanghai Jiaotong University in 2004 and 2005, the University of California, Berkeley, was ranked fourth in the world for two consecutive years.
The University of California at Berkeley is the best public university in the United States, enjoying a world-renowned academic reputation, and its research institutes rank among the top three in the United States. However, its undergraduate ranking has been ranked 2 1 among universities in China for nearly 10 years. Many high-quality public universities can't rank high because of various factors. In order not to "bury" these universities, Maxim's Weekly also ranked 50 national public universities. The top five universities in 2008 were University of California, Berkeley, University of Virginia, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Michigan and University of North Carolina, ranking among the top five public universities every year.
Postgraduate programs with doctoral degrees are the key indicators to evaluate the quality of American university education. In 2005, Newsweek reevaluated the graduate program of University of California, Berkeley, ranking first in the United States. Berkeley's 15 graduate programs are all among the top five in the United States. Followed by Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University and Princeton University.