| University of California, Berkeley College of Engineering | |
|---|---|
| Established | 1931 |
| Type | Public Professional School |
| Dean | Shankar S. Sastry |
| Academic staff | 228 [1] |
| Undergraduates | 2,857 [1] |
| Postgraduates | 1,663 [1] |
| Location | Berkeley, California, USA |
| Affiliations | University of California, Berkeley |
| Website | http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/ |
The College of Engineering is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley. The College of Engineering is ranked second in the nation, after MIT, according to the 2010 U.S. News & World Report rankings; It houses one of the most highly regarded and prestigious engineering programs in the world. The college was established in 1931 from a merger of the Colleges of Mechanics and the College of Civil Engineering. The College of Mining was integrated into the college in 1942. The college is currently situated in 11 buildings on the northeast side of the central campus, and also operates at the 150 acre (607,000 m²) Richmond Field Station. There are 54,000 living graduates of the College of Engineering, living in all 50 states and nearly 100 countries, with the majority living in California.[1]
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The College of Letters and Science also offers a Bachelor of Arts in computer science, which requires many of the same courses as the College of Engineering's Bachelor of Science in EECS, but has different admissions and graduation criteria. Berkeley's chemical engineering department is under the College of Chemistry.
All research facilities are managed by one of five Organized Research Units (ORUs):