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Mascot Oski the Bear Affiliations AAU IARU Pacific-12 University of California Website Berkeley.edu


Type    Flagship
Public
Endowment    $3.03 billion[1]
Chancellor    Nicholas Dirks
Students    35,899 (Fall 2012)
Undergraduates    25,574 (Fall 2012)[2]
Postgraduates    10,125 (Fall 2012)[2]
Location    Berkeley, California, United States
Campus   
Urban
Total 1,232 acres (499 ha) Core Campus 178 acres (72 ha)[3]
Total land owned 6,679 acres (2,703 ha)[4]
Nobel Laureates    72[5]
Colors         Yale Blue
     California Gold
Athletics    27 Varsity Teams
NCAA Division I
California Golden Bears
Nickname    Golden Bears
Mascot    Oski the Bear
Affiliations    AAU
IARU
Pacific-12
University of California
Website    Berkeley.edu
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The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, or simply Cal), is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The university occupies 1,232 acres (499 ha) on the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay with the central campus resting on 178 acres (72 ha).[6] Berkeley is the flagship institution of the 10 campus University of California system and one of only two UC campuses operating on a semester calendar, the other being UC Merced.
Established in 1868 as the result of the merger of the private College of California and the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College in Oakland, Berkeley is the oldest institution in the UC system and offers approximately 350 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines.[7] Berkeley has been charged with providing both "classical" and "practical" education for the state's people.[8][9] Berkeley co-manages three United States Department of Energy National Laboratories, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy.
Berkeley faculty, alumni, and researchers have won 72 Nobel Prizes (including 28 alumni Nobel laureates), 9 Wolf Prizes, 7 Fields Medals, 15 Turing Awards, 45 MacArthur Fellowships,[10] 20 Academy Awards, and 11 Pulitzer Prizes. To date, UC Berkeley and its researchers are associated with 6 chemical elements of the periodic table (californium, seab

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