Berkeley is also known for political activism and the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s. The university founded and maintains close relationships with three national laboratories at Berkeley, Livermore and Los Alamos, and has played a prominent role in many scientific advances, from the Manhattan Project and the discovery of 16 chemical elements to breakthroughs in computer science and genomics. Ī founding member of the Association of American Universities, Berkeley hosts many leading research institutes dedicated to science, engineering, and mathematics. Berkeley ranks among the world's top universities.
Its fourteen colleges and schools offer over 350 degree programs and enroll some 32,000 undergraduate and 13,000 graduate students. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant university and the founding campus of the University of California system. The University of California, Berkeley ( UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.
