

Its rigorous undergraduate academic standards make it one of the most challenging UC schools to gain admission. UC Berkeley is the number one public university in the United States. Through the Organic Act, the university could “provide instruction and thorough and complete education in all departments of science, literature, and art, industrial and professional pursuits, and general education, and also special courses of instruction in preparation for the professions.” In 1873, with nearly 200 students, the university moved to its new campus in Berkeley. From its humble beginnings as a land-grant university, the school first inherited the land and facilities of the private College of California in Oakland.


Founded in 1868, UC Berkeley was the first school in the University of California system.
