About University of California, Berkeley:

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1868, Berkeley is the flagship institution of the ten research universities affiliated with the University of California system. Berkeley has since grown to instruct over 40,000 students in approximately 350 undergraduate and graduate degree programs covering a wide range of disciplines. Berkeley is one of the 14 founding members of the Association of American Universities, with $789 million in R&D expenditures in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015. Today, Berkeley maintains close relationships with three United States Department of Energy National Laboratories—Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory—and is home to many institutes, including the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and the Space Sciences Laboratory. Through its partner institution University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Berkeley also offers a joint medical program at the UCSF Medical Center. As of August 2018, Berkeley alumni, faculty members and researchers include 104 Nobel laureates, 25 Turing Awards winners, and 14 Fields Medalists. They have also won 9 Wolf Prizes, 45 MacArthur Fellowships,20 Academy Awards, 14 Pulitzer Prizes and 207 Olympic medals (117 gold, 51 silver and 39 bronze). In 1930, Ernest Lawrence invented the cyclotron at Berkeley, based on which UC Berkeley researchers along with Berkeley Lab have discovered or co-discovered 16 chemical elements of the periodic table – more than any other university in the world. During the 1940s, Berkeley physicist J. R. Oppenheimer, the "Father of the Atomic Bomb", led the Manhattan project to create the first atomic bomb. In the 1960s, Berkeley was particularly noted for the Free Speech Movement as well as the Anti-Vietnam War Movement led by its students. In the 21st century, Berkeley has become one of the leading universities in producing entrepreneurs and its alumni have founded a large number of companies worldwide.



World University Rankings

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World University Rankings - - - - - - - - - - 9 14 15 16 20 21 26 30

By Fields

Field 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Agriculture 4 4 4 4 54 5 4 4 4 3 6 7 11 11 10 15 20
Engineering 1 2 2 2 2 2 5 5 7 8 12 17 26 31 38 21 33
Life Sciences 20 21 22 21 20 19 19 20 20 23 24 26 23 26 29 32 34
Medicine 129 129 151 134 144 141 164 164 172 168 180 188 167 174 211 236 225
Natural Sciences 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 3 2 5 5
Social Sciences 9 10 9 10 8 10 12 11 12 12 10 12 12 12 16 16 19

By Subjects

Subject 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Agricultural Sciences 60 54 54 79 92 113 96 115 132 154 163 144 170 214
Biology & Biochemistry - - - - - - - - 7 8 - 6 8 17
Chemistry 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 7 13 15 17 8 5
Chemical Engineering 22 21 19 19 16 15 17 24 40 48 78 88 45 25
Civil Engineering 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 7 11 16 12 15 7 5
Clinical Medicine - - - - - - - - 201 224 235 281 301-350 295
Computer Science 2 2 1 3 5 11 13 16 27 50 56 75 20 21
Economics & Business - - - - - - - - 3 4 - 5 4 4
Electrical Engineering 2 2 3 6 9 13 14 16 20 31 38 46 8 14
Environment / Ecology 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 5 - 5 8 8
Geosciences 5 5 5 6 7 8 8 11 12 16 - 22 20 30
Immunology - - - - - - - - 113 104 - 131 144 128
Materials Science 3 4 3 4 4 4 5 11 14 24 26 25 23 20
Mathematics 2 2 1 1 5 5 4 4 5 11 18 21 9 4
Mechanical Engineering 10 11 11 15 25 34 34 53 70 78 65 64 25 22
Microbiology - - - - - - - - 21 17 - - - 20
Molecular Biology & Genetics - - - - - - - - 25 27 - 43 45 45
Neuroscience & Behavior - - - - - - - - 47 43 - 43 49 51
Pharmacology & Toxicolog - 159 172 120 97 97 115 109 150 226 241 262 218 234
Physics 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 8 9 9 11 10
Plant & Animal Science 7 13 11 11 12 13 11 12 14 17 20 21 24 34
Psychiatry / Psychology - - - - - - - - 48 58 - 53 53 50
Social Sciences, General - - - - - - - - 21 21 25 27 30 47
Space Science - - - - - - - - 3 3 - 2 3 3
Energy Science & Engineering - - - - - - - - - - 34 34 27 22
Environmental Science & Engineering - - - - - - - - - - 12 14 16 3
Biomedical Engineering - - - - - - - - - - 54 79 - 124