University of California, Irvine

The University of California, Irvine (UCI, UC Irvine, or Irvine), is a accessible analysis university amid in Irvine, California, and one of the 10 accepted campuses in the University of California (UC) system. UCI has over 30,000 students, 1,100 adroitness associates and 9,000 staff. Times Higher Education (London, UK) in 2014 ranked UC Irvine 1st a part of all US universities and 7th a part of the top 100 all-around universities beneath 50 years old.

UC Irvine is advised a Accessible Ivy and offers 80 undergraduate degrees and 98 alum and able degrees. The university is appointed as accepting actual top analysis action in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, and in budgetary year 2012 had $350 actor in analysis and development expenditures according to the Civic Science Foundation. UC Irvine became a affiliate of the Association of American Universities in 1996, and is the youngest university to authority membership. The university aswell administers the UC Irvine Medical Center, a ample teaching hospital, and its affiliated bloom sciences arrangement in the city-limits of Orange; the University of California, Irvine, Arboretum; and a allocation of the University of California Natural Reserve System.
UCI was one of three new UC campuses accustomed in the 1960s to board growing enrollments beyond the UC system. A website in Orange County was articular in 1959, and in the afterward year the Irvine Company awash the University of California 1,000 acreage (400 ha) of acreage for one dollar to authorize the new campus. President Lyndon B. Johnson committed the campus in 1964. Fifty years after President Barack Obama batten at UCI's 2014 admission ceremony, captivated at Angel Stadium.
The UC Irvine Anteaters attempt in 18 men's and women's sports in the NCAA Division I as associates of the Big West Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. The Anteaters accept won 28 civic championships in nine altered aggregation sports, 64 Anteaters accept won alone civic championships, and 53 Anteaters accept competed in the Olympics.
The blueprint of the amount campus resembles a asperous amphitheater with its centermost getting Aldrich Park (initially accepted as Axial Park), lined up by the Ring Mall and barrio surrounding the road. To added accent the layout, bookish units are positioned about to the center, wherein undergraduate schools are afterpiece to the centermost than the alum schools.
Aldrich Park is buried with over 11,120 copse (there are over 24,000 copse on the absolute campus), including 33 breed of eucalyptus. Two august copse were buried in 1990, one for Arbor Day and the additional for above adjudicator Daniel Aldrich who had died that year. On the aboriginal ceremony of the September 11th tragedies, the adjudicator buried a bay account timberline in afterthought of the heroes and victims of the contest of September 11, 2001. The timberline itself was a allowance from the UCI Agents Assembly. Aldrich Park is the website for “Wayzgoose,” a medieval apprentice anniversary captivated anniversary year in affiliation with the “Celebrate UCI” accessible house. It aswell hosts abounding extracurricular activities.
Ring Mall is the capital banal alley acclimated by acceptance and adroitness to biking about the amount campus. The alley measures up to a absolute mile and absolutely encircles Aldrich Park.Most schools and libraries are lined up by this alley with anniversary of these schools accepting their own axial capital which aswell connects to the Aldrich Park.
Other areas of the university alfresco of the amount campus such as the School of Arts are affiliated by four banal bridges. Beyond the amount campus and the bridges, the blueprint of the campus is added suburban.

University of California, Davis

The University of California, Davis (also referred to as UCD, UC Davis, or Davis), is a accessible analysis university amid in Davis, California, just west of Sacramento. It encompasses 5,300 acreage of land, authoritative it the additional better UC campus in agreement of acreage ownership, afterwards UC Merced. UC Davis aswell has the third-largest acceptance in the UC System afterwards UCLA and UC Berkeley.
The 2015 U.S. News & World Report academy rankings called UC Davis as the 9th best accessible university, 38th nationally, and 4th of the UC schools, afterward UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UC San Diego.UC Davis is one of 62 associates in the Association of American Universities.
The Carnegie Foundation classifies UC Davis as a absolute doctoral analysis university with a medical program, and actual top analysis activity. UC Davis adroitness includes 23 associates of the National Academy of Sciences, 25 associates of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 17 associates of the American Law Institute, 14 associates of the Institute of Medicine, and 14 associates of the National Academy of Engineering. Among added honors, university faculty, alumni, and advisers accept won the Nobel Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur Fellowship, National Medal of Science, and Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering.
The university has broadcast over the accomplished aeon to cover alum and able programs in anesthetic (which includes the UC Davis Medical Center), law, veterinary medicine, education, nursing, and business management, in accession to 90 analysis programs offered by UC Davis Alum Studies. UC Davis' School of Veterinary Anesthetic is the better in the United States and is ranked aboriginal in the nation.
The UC Davis Aggies able-bodied teams attempt in the NCAA Division I level, primarily in the Big West Conference as able-bodied as the Big Sky Conference (Football only) and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. In its aboriginal year of abounding Division I status, 11 UC Davis teams able for NCAA post-season competition

University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a accessible analysis university amid in the Westwood adjacency of Los Angeles, California, United States. It became the University of California Southern Branch in 1919, authoritative it the second-oldest undergraduate campus of the ten-campus arrangement afterwards the aboriginal University of California campus in Berkeley (1873). It offers 337 undergraduate and alum amount programs in a advanced ambit of disciplines. With an almost acceptance of 30,000 undergraduate and 12,000 alum students, UCLA is the university with the better acceptance in the accompaniment of California and the a lot of activated to university in the United States with over 112,000 applications for abatement 2015.

The university is organized into 5 undergraduate colleges, seven able schools, and four able bloom science schools. The undergraduate colleges are the College of Letters and Science; Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Activated Science (HSSEAS); School of the Arts and Architecture; School of Theater, Film, and Television; and School of Nursing. Fifteen[14][15] Nobel laureates, one Fields Medalist,and three Turing Award winners accept been faculty, researchers, or alumni. Among the accepted adroitness members, 52 accept been adopted to the Civic Academy of Sciences, 28 to the Civic Academy of Engineering, 39 to the Institute of Medicine, and 124 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.The university was adopted to the Association of American Universities in 1974.
UCLA student-athletes attempt as the Bruins in the Pacific-12 Conference. The Bruins accept won 125 civic championships, including 112 NCAA aggregation championships. UCLA student-athletes accept won 250 Olympic medals: 125 gold, 65 argent and 60 bronze. The Bruins accept competed in every Olympics back 1920 with one barring (1924), and accept won a gold badge in every Olympics that the United States has alternate in back 1932.

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as Berkeley, UC Berkeley, California or artlessly Cal)[8] is a accessible analysis university amid in Berkeley, California. It is the flagship campus of the University of California system, one of three locations in the state's accessible college apprenticeship plan, which aswell includes the California State University arrangement and the California Community Colleges System.
UC Berkeley is the a lot of careful – and accomplished ranked in U.S. News and ARWU – accessible university in the apple for undergraduate education. It is advised by Times College Apprenticeship as a affiliate of the aristocratic accumulation of six universities that advance in apple acceptability rankings in 2015 and is ranked third on the U.S. News' 2015 Best Global Universities rankings conducted in the U.S. and about 50 added countries. The Bookish Ranking of Apple Universities aswell ranks the University of California, Berkeley as the fourth in the world's 500 top universities, third in engineering, fourth in amusing sciences and aboriginal in mathematics & action sciences.Aside from its bookish prestige, the university is aswell able-bodied accepted for bearing a top amount of entrepreneurs.

Established in 1868 as the aftereffect of the alliance of the clandestine College of California and the accessible Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College in Oakland, UC Berkeley is the oldest academy in the UC arrangement and offers about 350 undergraduate and alum amount programs in a advanced ambit of disciplines. The University of California has been answerable with accouterment both "classical" and "practical" apprenticeship for the state's people. Cal 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 advisers accept won 72 Nobel Prizes (including 30 alumni Nobel laureates), nine Wolf Prizes, seven Fields Medals, 18 Turing Awards, 45 MacArthur Fellowships,20 Academy Awards, and 11 Pulitzer Prizes. To date, UC Berkeley scientists accept apparent six actinic elements of the alternate table (californium, seaborgium, berkelium, einsteinium, fermium, lawrencium). Along with Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley advisers accept apparent 16 actinic elements in absolute – added than any added university in the world.[24] Berkeley is a founding affiliate of the Association of American Universities and continues to accept actual top analysis action with $730.7 actor in analysis and development expenditures in the budgetary year catastrophe June 30, 2014.[25][26] Berkeley physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the accurate administrator of the Manhattan Project that developed the aboriginal diminutive bomb in the world, which he alone headquartered at Los Alamos, New Mexico, during Apple War II. Adroitness affiliate Edward Teller was (together with Stanislaw Ulam) the "father of the hydrogen bomb". Former United States Secretary of Energy and Nobel laureate Steven Chu (PhD 1976), was Administrator of Berkeley Lab, 2004–2009.

Organization and administration
The University of California is absolute by a 26-member Board of Regents, 18 of which are appointed by the Governor of California to 12-year terms, 7 confined as ex officio members, a alone apprentice agent and a non-voting apprentice regent-designate.[99] The position of Chancellor was created in 1952 to advance alone campuses. The Board appointed Nicholas Dirks the 10th Chancellor of the university in 2013 afterwards Robert J. Birgeneau, originally appointed in 2004, appear his resignation.[100] 12 carnality chancellors address anon to the Chancellor. The Executive Carnality Chancellor and Provost serves as the arch bookish administrator and is the appointment to which the deans of the 14 colleges and schools report.

Haas School of Business
The 2006–07 account totaled $1.7 billion; 33% came from the State of California. In 2006–07, 7,850 donors contributed $267.9 actor and the award was admired at $2.89 billion.
UC Berkeley employs 24,700 humans anon and advisers are acceptable to unionize and are represented by AFSCME, California Nurses Association (CNA), CUE-Teamsters Local 2010 (formerly the Coalition of University Advisers (CUE)), UAW, UC-AFT, and UPTE.