University of California-Berkeley Top Questions

Difficulty; diversity

Research in many different fields as well as BSD Unix.

I believe UC Berkeley is best known for liberal movements in the 1960's, being liberal in general, academics, prestige, research facilities, beautiful campus, diversity, and of course, the Berkeley Hippies.

It's known for being a super liberal campus with marijuana addicts, hippies, and hobos wandering the streets and campus. It's also more famously known for being the best public school in the US with the best Chemistry department and exceptional Engineering, Physics, Law and Business branches of study.

School spirit, being independent, strongly academinc yet social, making life long relationships

Cal is best known as a premier research facility

... being a bastion of nutty leftist thought. But it isn't, really.

#1 public institution in the nation, best professors, research opportunities, football team, hippies, tree-huggers, politically active, diverse...movements

Berkeley is best known for its nobel laureates, world class research, "hippiness", environmentalism and our great football team. Go Bears!

Berkeley is a very diverse university that is well known for its academic rigor. Berkeley is one of the top universities in the country in a variety of different subjects including engineering, business, and science.

having leading professors in every field imagineable; large class sizes

Academics and Research.

U.C. Berkeley is best know for being very liberal and for our outstanding research facilities and professors.

Being tough

Football, and Academics. Cut-throat competition, as well as hippies. Being a paradox, with its smoke shops and Haas School of Business.

Being the top public univeristy in the country, its role in the free speech movement during the 1960s, and the part it played in the development of modern physics.

Berkeley, as a university, is best known as the home of world class research, such as that which produced the atom bomb. It is also known as a challenging school filled with cutthroat, competitive, and academically driven students. Berkeley, as a community, is known as a liberal enclave and the home of the Free Speech Movement. In recent years it has become associated with Telegraph Avenue and the bums that live there.

Research and qualtiy professors

It is best know for having one the largest Library in the United States. For its well known professors and just the prestigeous name.

Historically, Cal is best known for its free speech movement in the 60s...and the past year's tree-sitter episodes. But UC Berkeley is also a leader in many fields, and prides itself on being a public university. We have brainy scientists, great rugby teams, talented writers, amazing designers, and intellectuals in several disciplines - especially ones that are interdisciplinary and increasingly important when it comes to looking at the challenges that the world faces today. If you're willing to work for it, you can get a world-class education here.