University of California, Berkeley

Profileuniversity.com - University of California, Berkeley is a university which was established since 1968. Institutions of higher education is one of the oldest schools of California's 10 public universities. With so many academic programs offered by the University of California, Berkeley, in particular for the graduate program at this university has a pretty good reputation in comparison with other universities.

Leading university has several academic departments are divided into 14 colleges and schools. In addition to the graduate program mentioned above, for students who are studying at the University of California, Berkeley also can choose more than 350 other degree programs. although the university has provided hundreds of degree programs, but popular majors are much in demand or the many taken by students at the University of California, Berkeley include electrical engineering, computer science, political science and molecular and cell biology.

With the student faculty ratio 17: 1, the teacher will be more focused in delivering lessons and students will also be easier to accept the material presented. And of the many faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, there are seven professors of them ever won the Nobel Prize, 32 MacArthur Fellows and four Pulitzer Prize winners.

There is a tradition in the university campus which is always done by the students, which is before the exam they rub the 4.0 Ball, a century-old stone orb said to boost the chances of scoring a perfect GPA, so that they can pass the exam with good results and satisfactory.

Since its establishment until now, the university has produced thousands of graduates. And of the many students who have graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, there are also famous figures in the world such as Apple founder Steve Wozniak and Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO.

Of athletic activities, the University of California, Berkeley have sports teams that compete in the Pacific-12 Conference, NCAA Division I atletik.dan of these sports activities, sports team of University of California, Berkeley has long been bitter enemies with Stanford University. And at the annual traditional event, such as the "Big Game", the students use colored cards in the stands to create intricate patterns.

Source : berkeley.edu/