Research reputation of the University of California, Berkeley

The research level of the University of California at Berkeley has reached the top level in the world. 20 1620 full-time and more than 500 part-time faculty and staff are distributed in major departments. Berkeley enjoys a high academic reputation in the world, and there are many world-class academic masters in its 100 sub-disciplines. There are no fewer than 72 Nobel Prize winners who have worked and studied in Berkeley (7 in-service professors), and the number of Nobel Prize winners is the sixth in the world, including 30 alumni; According to the Times Higher Education, since the 20th century, the number of Berkeley faculty members who have won the Nobel Prize ranks third in the world. At the same time, there are 20 Turing Prize winners (including 3 in-service professors) from Berkeley, ranking first in the world, and 8 Fields Prize winners (including 3 in-service professors). In addition, Professor Berkeley includes 144 academicians of the National Academy of Sciences, 73 academicians of the National Academy of Engineering, 235 academicians of the American Academy of Arts, 4 Pulitzer Prize winners, 13 national medal of science award Prize winners, 33 MacArthur Prize winners, 77 Fulbright scholars, 139 Guggenheim Prize winners and/kloc-.

According to the ranking of the world's authoritative universities (academic ranking of world universities), Berkeley has been tied with Harvard University and Stanford University for the top four academic research in the world. In 20 10, Berkeley ranked second in academic ranking of world universities, second only to Harvard University. In the academic ranking of world universities of 20 14- 15 and 20 15- 16, Berkeley ranks 1 for physics and chemistry, and 1 for natural science. From 20 15 to 16, computer and engineering ranked third in the world, and mathematics and economics ranked fourth in the world. In addition, graduate education in Berkeley has always been regarded as the top level in the United States. The outstanding talents it trains every year have made outstanding contributions to American society in the past 65,438+000 years, and at the same time, they have trained many international talents for the world, with global influence. The number of graduate students who have won the National Science Foundation Scholarship ranks first in the United States (MIT and Stanford rank second and third respectively), and there are also many famous winners (such as 137 Fulbright Scholarship Winner).

Berkeley professors, researchers, students and alumni led the Manhattan Project, built the first atomic bomb (Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb) and the first hydrogen bomb (edward tylor, the father of the hydrogen bomb), invented lasers, discovered dark energy, invented cyclotron, invented bubble chamber, discovered at least 16 chemical elements, and discovered deuterium. Invented carbon-14 dating method, vitamin e, streptomycin, PCR technology, prestress, mouse, UNIX system, RSA encryption method, etc. , put forward the theory of dinosaur extinction "asteroid impact theory", founded the solar microsystem (co-founder Bill Joy), put forward Moore's Law and identified the influenza virus for the first time. Berkeley or. Janet yellen, the current chairman of the Federal Reserve, is also a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and has won two outstanding teaching awards from the school. There are mainly four authoritative world university rankings in the world: 1)usnews, the best global university, which comprehensively measures the scientific research and teaching strength of universities (focusing on graduate students); 2) academic ranking of world universities, based entirely on objective data, focuses on measuring a university's academic research ability rather than teaching ability; 3) Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings; 4)QS World University Rankings. The latter two rankings are a comprehensive measure of the teaching (mainly undergraduate) and scientific research strength of universities, but they are easily influenced by commercial factors and artificial subjective prejudice and are controversial. It should be treated comprehensively and rationally. The following is the comprehensive ranking of Berkeley:

-20 15- 16 comprehensive ranking of American news world universities: 3rd in the world.

-20 15- 16 ARWU academic ranking of world universities: 4th in the world.

-20 15- 16 times world university ranking: global 13, reputation ranking: global 6;

-20 15- 16 QS World University Ranking: 26th in the world.

In addition, in the United States, US News also ranks undergraduate programs of various universities (US News Best Colleges), and Berkeley ranks 20th in undergraduate programs in the United States (American public universities 1). However, this ranking is only for undergraduate programs, not the comprehensive strength of universities, so US News launched the World University Rankings (the best universities in the world, see the above picture) at the end of 20 14 to measure the comprehensive strength of universities. It is a common misunderstanding to regard undergraduate ranking as the comprehensive strength ranking of schools; Especially in the aspect of undergraduate enrollment, American public universities are limited by the laws of state governments and can only recruit a large number of high school students in their own States, while private universities are independent and self-sufficient in enrollment, so the ranking of undergraduate programs of public universities is inevitably restricted. At the same time, as a top public university, Berkeley is often called "Harvard for civilians". The University of California at Berkeley ranks among the top in the world in almost every field 10. The following is a detailed ranking.

1) 20 15-65438+ Special note: Since Berkeley does not have its own independent medical school, most of its medical projects are carried out in cooperation with the University of California, San Francisco, so Berkeley's world ranking in the column of "Medicine" has a double meaning-the 27th in the world is the ranking of a few independent medical projects in Berkeley, and the 2nd in the world is the ranking of comprehensive medical direction (that is, including all).

2) Higher education in the era of 2015-16 academic ranking of world universities: natural science in academic field.

Engineering technology (science)

(engineering) medical life sciences, humanities, Arts and Social Sciences 455 (tied) 77 103) QS World University Discipline (Department) or Specialty within Discipline 20 15- 16: Discipline/Specialty World Ranking Discipline/Specialty World Ranking Environmental Science 1 Modern Linguistics 4 Performing Arts 8 Chemistry 2 History 4 Psychology 8 Communication and Media Research 2 English and Literature 4 Philosophy 9 Sociology 2 Physics and Astronomy 5 Linguistics 9 Chemical Engineering 3 Development Research 5 Law 9 Earth and Ocean Science 3 Anthropology 5 Accounting and Finance 654331Kloc-0/Statistics and Operations Research 4 Archaeology 6 Art Design Excluding Mechanical Engineering 4 Life Science 6 Veterinary Medicine Excluding Economics 4 (tied) Geography 6 Medicine excludes agronomy and forestry 4 Mining Engineering 6 Pharmacy excludes materials 4 Computer Science 7 Dentistry excludes civil engineering 4 Education 7 (tied) Nursing is not ranked in the 42 disciplines/majors of QS World University, and Berkeley * * * has 35 disciplines in the top ten, ranking in the world.

4)20 16- 17 American news Gratuate school ranking: natural sciences (departments) ranked American humanities and social sciences (departments) ranked American chemistry 1 (tied) sociology 1 (tied) computer science 1 (tied). 438+0 Physics 2 (tied) Psychology 2 (tied) Mathematics 3 (tied) Economics 5 (tied) Earth Science 3 (tied) Political Science 6 Life Science 4 Criminology None 20 16- 17 Major American professional schools American news ranking: American Engineering College, Law School, Education College and Nursing College ranked 378 (tied)

Berkeley campus has a total area of about 5 square kilometers and the main campus is about 72 hectares. Berkeley Library * * * has three main libraries, 24 branch libraries and 1 1 subsidiary libraries, with a collection of more than100000 volumes, making it the fourth largest university library in North America, second only to Harvard University Library, Yale University Library and UIUC University Library.

In addition, Berkeley owns or manages a large number of academic research institutions:

-National Institute of Mathematical Sciences;

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory;

-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA;

-Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics;

-Berkeley Center for Cosmic Physics;

-Berkeley Space Science Laboratory, Seti@Home looking for alien headquarters;

-Keck telescope &; Keck Observatory;

-Berkeley Center for Quantum Information and Computing;

-Berkeley Institute of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering;

-Institute of East Asian Studies;

Berkeley Center for Law, Commerce and Economy;