University of California--Berkeley

University of California--Berkeley is a accessible academy that was founded in 1868. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 25,951, its ambience is urban, and the campus admeasurement is 1,232 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. University of California--Berkeley's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is Civic Universities, 20. Its in-state charge and fees are $13,844 (2014-15); out-of-state charge and fees are $25,064 (2014-15).
The University of California—Berkeley, generally referred to as Cal, is anchored overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Berkeley guarantees two years of apartment for admission freshmen in a amount of abode halls throughout campus. There are added than 1,200 apprentice organizations on campus, alignment from political groups to a adhere gliding club and aggregate in between. Berkeley aswell has a advancing Greek activity with added than 55 fraternity and abode chapters. The California Golden Bears, Berkeley’s able-bodied teams, attack in the Pac-12 Conference and are accepted for their acceptable accomplished animosity with Stanford.
Berkeley is comprised of 14 schools and colleges, including a amount of alum and able schools such as the School of Optometry, Alum School of Journalism and College of Environmental Design. Other alum programs are the awful ranked Haas School of Business, Alum School of Education, College of Engineering, School of Law, School of Social Welfare, School of Accessible Health and Goldman School of Accessible Policy. Berkeley is able-bodied accepted as a hub of advanced apprentice activity: the Free Speech Movement—a 1964 apprentice beef at Berkeley in acknowledgment to the administration’s attack to abolish apprentice political groups from campus—gained boundless civic attention. Distinguished alumni cover above U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, Olympic gold advocate Jonny Moseley and amateur John Cho of the "Harold and Kumar" films. Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, accurate administrator of the Manhattan Project during WWII to advance the diminutive bomb, was a physicist and assistant at Berkeley.