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University of California, Berkeley

Also known as University of California Berkeley, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, Univ. of California Berkeley, Cal-Berkeley, berkeley.edu, University of California at Berkeley

public university in Berkeley, California, USA

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University of California, Berkeley is a public university located in Berkeley, California. It is one of the most prominent institutions in the University of California system and is widely recognized for its academic programs and research contributions.

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Official name: University of California, Berkeley
Employees: 12122
Official website: berkeley.edu
Image: Berkeley glade afternoon.jpg
Students count: 41155
Admission rate: 0.17

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Commons category: University of California, Berkeley
Commons gallery: University of California, Berkeley
inception: 1868-03-23
IPv4 routing prefix: 136.152.0.0/16
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The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in the Southside and Northside neighborhoods of Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley, it is the state's first land-grant university and the founding campus of the University of California system.

Berkeley has an enrollment of more than 45,000 students. The university is organized around fifteen schools of study on the same campus, including the College of Chemistry, the College of Engineering, College of Letters and Science, and the Haas School of Business. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was originally founded as part of the university.