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University of California

 The University of California is an American university, founded in 1868, with headquarters in Berkeley (California), with ten campuses in the State of California. It hosts 200,000 students and employs150,000 people. The network of public universities in California has the same budget as the CNRS in France.

Historical

The first settlement was founded by the Rev. Henry Durant, known as Contra Costa Academy, which was only a private school housed in an old box fandango, in Oakland. In 1855, there were about fifty students.

A charter school that turned into "College of California", which later merged to form the State University in 1868, yet structured, and moved to its present site of 65 ha in Berkeley (California).

The site still welcomes Berkeley main campus. Old is Beautiful, the University of California, Berkeley is recognized as one of five top universities in the U.S. alongside Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford. This is the only campus allowed to use either names or University of California Berkeley.

This whole university took the name of an Irish philosopher, Bishop George Berkeley.

The other nine campuses of the university are located at:

     Davis (University of California at Davis)

     Irvine (UC Irvine)

     Los Angeles (University of California at Los Angeles, UCLA)

     Merced (UC Merced)

     Riverside (University of California at Riverside)

     San Diego (University of California at San Diego, UCSD)

     San Francisco (University of California at San Francisco)

     Santa Barbara (University of California at Santa Barbara)

     Santa Cruz (University of California at Santa Cruz)