<p>The University of California, Berkeley was chartered in 1868 and its flagship campus — envisioned as a "City of Learning" — was established at Berkeley, on San Francisco Bay. Berkeley Faculty consists of 1,582 fulltime and 500 part-time faculty members dispersed among more than 130 academic departments and more than 80 interdisciplinary research units. 28 Nobel prizes have been awarded to Berkeley Alumni. There are 8 Nobel Laureates, 32 MacArthur Fellows, and 4 Pulitzer Prize winners among the current faculty.</p>
<p>The University of California, Berkeley was chartered in 1868 and its flagship campus — envisioned as a "City of Learning" — was established at Berkeley, on San Francisco Bay. Berkeley Faculty consists of 1,582 fulltime and 500 part-time faculty members dispersed among more than 130 academic departments and more than 80 interdisciplinary research units. 28 Nobel prizes have been awarded to Berkeley Alumni. There are eight Nobel Laureates, 32 MacArthur Fellows, and four Pulitzer Prize winners among the current faculty.</p>
<p>The Massachusetts Institute of Technology — a coeducational, privately endowed research university founded in 1861 — is dedicated to advancing knowledge and educating students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century. The Institute has close to 1,000 faculty and 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students. It is organized into five Schools: Architecture and Urban Planning; Engineering; Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; Sloan School of Management; and Science.</p>
<p>MIT's commitment to innovation has led to a host of scientific breakthroughs and technological advances. Seventy-eight MIT alumni, faculty, researchers and staff have won Nobel Prizes.</p>
<p>MIT's commitment to innovation has led to a host of scientific breakthroughs and technological advances. 78 MIT alumni, faculty, researchers and staff have won Nobel Prizes.</p>
<p>Current areas of research and education include neuroscience and the study of the brain and mind, bioengineering, cancer, energy, the environment and sustainable development, information sciences and technology, new media, financial technology, and entrepreneurship.</p>
