UC Berkeley Facts
Flagship campus of the University of California
33,933 students from 101 countries
23,863 undergraduate students
10,070 graduate students
1,953 faculty
Nearly 340 degree programs
Over 436,000 alumni worldwide
1,232 acre campus
Evening & Weekend MBA Program
Distinctions
University of California, Berkeley:
A Stellar Academic Institution
- The Times of London Higher Education Supplement recently ranked the University of California Berkeley #2 in its survey of the best universities in the world
- Ranks first nationally in the number of graduate programs in the top 10 in their fields (National Research Council)
- The only university with Ph.D. programs ranked in the top five across all 15 categories in the 2006 edition of U.S. News & World Report's listing of top graduate schools
- Ranked #2 in the nation, in the 2006 Washington Monthly College Rankings, based on three main criteria: performance as an engine of social mobility, research output, and promotion of a service ethic
- The leading institution in awarding doctoral degrees to minorities and women
- 20 Nobel Prize laureates (including the late Haas professor John Harsanyi)
- 201 American Association for the Advancement of Science Awards
- 229 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Awards
- 76 Fulbright Scholars
- 383 Guggenheim Fellows
- 28 MacArthur Fellows
- 85 National Academy of Engineering Awards
- 131 National Academy of Sciences Awards
- 14 National Medal of Science Awards
- 92 Sloan Fellows
- 5 Wolf Prizes
- 3 Pulitzer Prizes
- 1 National Poet Laureate
