University of California, Berkeley

INTRODUCTION ON UNIVERSITY OF BERKELEY

The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Berkeley; UC Berkeley; or Cal) is a public research university situated in Berkeley, California. It was founded in 1868,being the oldest of the ten piblic research universities affiliated with the University of California system.

Established in the year 1868 as the result of the merging of the private College of California and the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College in Oakland, California. This university offers approximately 350 graduate and undergraduate degree programs in a vast range of disciplines. The Dwinelle Bill of the month March 5, 1868 (California Assembly Bill No. 583) states that the "University must have for its design, to provide instruction  and complete education in each and departments from science,  industry and profession pursuits, and general education, literature and art, and also special courses of guidance in preparation for the selected professions... ."

ACADEMICS AT BERKELEY 

Berkeley is a large, mostly residential research university with a high majority of enrollments in undergraduate programs but also grants a comprehensive doctoral graduate program. This university has been certified by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges Senior College and University Commission since the year 1949. This university is one of only two UC campuses regulating on a semester calendar, (the other operates with UC Merced). It offers about 106 Bachelor's degrees, 88 Master's degrees, around 97 research-focused doctoral programs, and 31 professionally dedicated graduate degrees. The university awarded approximately 7,565 Bachelor's, about 2,610 Master's or Professional, and 930 Doctoral degrees in the year 2013-14.

Berkeley's hundred and thirty plus academic departments and programs are categorized into 14 colleges and schools in inclusion to UC Berkeley Extension."Colleges" are both undergraduate and graduate, while "Schools" is a place where students are generally graduate only, nevertheless some offer undergraduate majors, minors, or other courses.

CAMPUSES OF BERKELEY

The Berkeley campus covers approximately 1,232 acres (499 ha), nevertheless the "central campus" occupies only the low-lying western 178 acres (72 ha) of the total area. Of the remaining acres, exactly two hundred acres (81 ha) is occupied by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; other facilities above the major campus acquires the Lawrence Hall of Science and other several research units, notably  the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, the Space Sciences Laboratory, the University of California Botanical Garden, an undeveloped 800-acre (320 ha) ecological preserve and a recreation center in Strawberry Canyon. Part of the mostly undeveloped, eastern area of the university are actually inside the City of Oakland, California; these portions extend from the Claremont Resort north through the Panoramic Hill neighborhood to Tilden Park.

To the west side of the main campus is the downtown business district of Berkeley; similarly to the northwest side is the neighborhood of North  of Berkeley,  also including the so-called Gourmet Ghetto, a commercial district recognised for its high quality dining as there is the existence of  world-renowned restaurants like Chez Panisse. Right to the north is a peaceful residential neighborhood recognised as Northside with a large number of graduate student population; located north of that, are the rich residential neighborhoods of the Berkeley Hills. Also immediately southeast side of the  campus lies fraternity row, and over that the Clark Kerr Campus and an prosperous residential is  named Claremont. The area at the south side of the university includes student housing and also Telegraph Avenue,  Berkeley's one of the main shopping area with stores, street vendors and also restaurants catering to college students as well as  tourists. In inclusion, the University also retains land to the northwest of the main campus, a 90-acre (36 ha) area of married student housing complex at the nearby town of Albany ("Albany Village" and the "Gill Tract"), and a field research station about a few miles to the north in Richmond, California.