The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. It was established in 1868 and is the state's first land-grant university and the founding campus of the University of California system. Berkeley has been regarded as one of the top universities in the world with the most top-ranked departments nationally and more companies founded by undergraduate alumni than any other university worldwide. Berkeley has the fourth most Nobel Prize associations for any academic or research institution.

Berkeley has founded and currently manages three national laboratories for the U.S. Department of Energy: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. It also played a role in the Manhattan Project and the discovery of sixteen chemical elements. Berkeley's athletic teams, which compete as the California Golden Bears in the Pac-12 Conference, have won 107 national championships, and alumni have won 223 Olympic medals (including 121 gold medals). It is also a founding member of the Association of American Universities and hosts multiple STEM research institutes. (Full article...)