University of California (UC) is a public university in California. Unlike California State University (CSU), UC pays more attention to advanced research fields and belongs to a research university. CSU is a teaching university. University of California (UC) enjoys a high reputation in the United States and even the world, and it is the best higher education system in the world at present. The first university of California is Berkeley University. After continuous development and expansion, at present, the augmented system has 10 universities, among which 9 universities have undergraduate departments and graduate schools (only graduate schools in San Francisco campus), with more than 2 10000 students and more than 16000 faculty members. The University of California contracted to manage three national laboratories of the US Department of Energy, with 55 Nobel Prize winners and 357 academicians of the US National Academy of Sciences, accounting for nearly1/5 of the 2,039 academicians of the US National Academy of Sciences; China students account for13% of the total number of students (26 1 16 in 2003-2004). The famous American University Association has 6 1 members, of which 6 campuses of the University of California are members, while at most one campus of other American university systems is a member of this association. In usnews &; In the World Report's ranking of American public universities over the years, the University of California at Berkeley often ranks first. In the United States, it is usually called the top three public universities together with UM (University of Michigan) UVA (University of Virginia), and other branches such as UCLA and UCSD are often among the best.
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.
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.
UC system members (in alphabetical order, see the above figure for positioning):
1. University of California, http://www.berkeley.edu/ (the first campus)
2. University of California, http://www.ucdavis.edu/,
3. University of California, http://www.uci.edu/, (Irvine)
4. University of California, http://www.ucla.edu/,.
5. University of California, http://www.ucmerced.edu/, (new campus, enrollment started in autumn 2005).
6. University of California, http://www.ucr.edu/,, Riverside.
University of California, San Diego, http://www.ucsd.edu/,.
8. http://www.ucsf.edu/, University of California, San Francisco.
9. University of California, http://www.ucsb.edu/,, Santa Barbara.
10. University of California, http://www.ucsc.edu/.