<p>The University of California was chartered in 1868 and its flagship campus in Berkeley, on San Francisco Bay, was envisioned as a "City of Learning." Today, there are more than 1,500 full-time and 500 part-time faculty members dispersed among more than 130 academic departments and more than 80 interdisciplinary research units. Twenty-two Nobel Prizes have been garnered by faculty and twenty-eight Nobel prizes have been awarded to UC Berkeley alumni. There are 9 Nobel Laureates, 32 MacArthur Fellows and 4 Pulitzer Prize winners among the current faculty.</p>
<p>The University of California was chartered in 1868 and its flagship campus in Berkeley, on San Francisco Bay, was envisioned as a "City of Learning." Today, there are more than 1,500 full-time and 500 part-time faculty members dispersed among more than 130 academic departments and more than 80 interdisciplinary research units. Twenty-two Nobel Prizes have been garnered by faculty and twenty-eight Nobel prizes have been awarded to UC Berkeley alumni. There are 9 Nobel Laureates, 32 MacArthur Fellows and 4 Pulitzer Prize winners among the current faculty.</p>