UC Berkeley

By: Billie PaulinoAliah Lazaro

Josh Holdeman

Mascot : BearsSemester term systemKnown for Football & For winning a lot of Nobel PrizesOldest of 10 major UC campuses“Let There Be Light”

Size : 1,232 acre campus with a sylvan 178 acre central core

Location : Berkeley, CA.Population : 35,843• undergraduates : 25,530• pursuing degrees : 10,313

Registration Fees-$12,462Housing, Food, and Utilities-$15,308Books and Supplies-$1,314

Number of Applicants-50,31225.6% of applicants admitted 4.19 Average GPA of Admitted

FreshmanApplication fee of $60

Essay(s) required & SAT Reasoning Test and SAT Subject Tests or ACT

African Americans : 129American Indian : 28Latino : 420Asian American : 1662White : 1153International : 469

Coed HousingMen’s HousingWomen’s HousingApartments for Married StudentsApartments for Single StudentsCooperative HousingFraternity Sorority

Number of Athletic Teams : 27 National Championships : 79 Olympic Gold Medals Won : 91

BasketballCrewCross CountryField HockeyFootball GolfGymnasticsLacrosse

RugbySoccerSoftballSwimmingTrack & FieldTennisVolleyball Water Polo

It’s a diverse campus.There are a lot of sports &

organizations to join.They have performances,

Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, Greek Theatre, Poetry Readings,

Leadership, Etc.

• Founded in the wake of the Gold Rush

• Land was purchased in 1866 by the Private Colleges of California

• 1st full-curriculum public university

• Opened in November, 1869

Bachelors

Masters

Doctoral

ALUMNISAlexandra Berzon – Pulitzer Price Winning

JournalistGregory Peck – Academy Award;

Portrayal of Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird Shing-Tung Yau – Wolf Prize; professor of

mathematicsTom Anderson – President & Co-Founder of Myspace