University of California, Berkeley in Oakland

Pretty solid. Ive only been here a bit more than 1 semester and Ive already learned like 10 things. Only reason its not 5 stars is that its a bit overpriced for out-of-state kids like me...

On of the places I wished be able to visit. An I still want to come back.

One of the best university of the states.

Best decision of my life to go here. I got a fantastic education at a reasonable price & made lifelong friends. Almost everyone you meet here is impressive, going places or doing something meaningful with their lives. If you are a nerd at heart, feel like other people dont get you, love to read, or build things, or to think deeply about ideas, these are your people. Leave your ego at the door and be open to joining extracurriculars, and you will have an amazing experience like I did. BS 13

One of the best University of the globe according to academic ranking. The campus is beautiful and building designs exclusively iconic. Research scope and lab facilities are state of the art. Lovely people and good landscape made the University campus a loveable place.

Im not a student there, but as a visitor I was astonished how big the University was. it had so many study environment very much alive atmosphere. Hope you catch this school whatever chances you have

Proud to be a UC Berkeley student. The campus is beautiful and diverse in nature, architecture and thought. Definitely explore the campus and the surroundings. Its in a city that stands out in character and takes part of the Bay Area culture.

Lets say, I dont like the negative image the media will focus on when "non-students" will invade campus by rioting, destroying (vandalizing)and looting this beautiful campus to make the media, which media loves to publicize and say are students. Students dont vandalize their own school as hard as it is to pay their tuition why would they destroy their own school? Because these losers arent students! Also, not too excited about surrounding area as one will see "peoples park" with the homeless and vagabonds loitering around (which some observers will blame the university for but its the citys issue which I think the loud liberal students should agree with their quiet conservative co-students to clean it up a bit)... but this review is for the University of Berkeley campus itself. The vibe around campus was nothing more than polite, modest hard working students. Lots of foot traffic. I dont understand the negative reviews about students being "spoiled". Its the opposite from my obervation. I find kids at UCLA more spoiled when I was there. If one were to even compare the materialistic aspect of types of cars driven around different campus one can see who is more "privileged " or "spoiled" by the cars driven at other school campus, as Berkeley students ride bikes, take public transportation and walk everywhere which make it such a peaceful comfortable beautiful environment once on campus. Cal also has produced one of the highest contributing alumnus to be proud of.

Great university. Awesome campus and atmosphere. 150 years completed of this world class university in 2018. Wow.

We visited the beautiful campus in summer and enjoyed the atmosphere. We appreciated the beautiful music on top of Sather Tower and were shocked by the loud bell ringing!

Very significantly historic university. There is many good stories to everything from the floor to the structure of the buildings. Students here achieve academic excellence and fight for what they believe. Students here fight for justice and come together to be able to do so.

Always my favorite place to visit when Im home. My grand daughter is named after this city. So many things to do and see. Peoples park. The book store, Rasputins, I miss Blondies. Berkeley is the best.

Regardless of the politics this is a gorgeous campus

University of California at Berkeley is a nice place to visit by the tourists from abroad. Also nice to stay here and learn.

Berkeley is a difficult place. There is undeniably an impersonal, cut-throat atmosphere in most classes, particularly the larger ones (so, again, most of them). Students are primarily preoccupied with their phones and laptops rather than with their peers and lecturers. Additionally, clubs are competitive to gain entrance into, so simply putting yourself "out there" isnt a guarantee of social acceptance. In humanities courses, B-grades are mostly manageable, whereas As typically take effort; in STEM, its probably more difficult to maintain a reasonable GPA. With all that said, having taken a handful of interesting courses so far, I do feel mentally stimulated here, and there are definitely lots of things to do, beyond the standard drinking/partying college culture (hiking, sailing, kayaking; going out to eat; going to the movies; going to the city; etc.). However, it is finding the people here to do them with, and the time to do them, that are the limiting factors.

95% of the people giving it the lowest rating arent even students nor do their opinions associate with the academia of the school. It seems the raters are extreme right and accuse everyone of being liberals without even knowing. Yes, there are conservatives at this school as well as the Republican Club (this is why conservative speakers have been invited to speak there). These negative reviews are based on the recent riots (and past from a long, long time ago), and most of the rioters werent even students at CAL! What a shame to base non-student rioters with the hardworking students who are the majority and not involved in the rioting. It is like saying all Blacks are the same, or all Whites are the same. Those reviewers are accusing them of having low I.Q.s but look who is calling the kettle black (no pun intended). If they had low I.Q.s then how come UC Berkeley produces the a great amount of notable alumnis? Plus their acceptance rate is low so it is a pretty elite school for the intelligent. And YES, I do agree with the other reviewer that the loud ones (the riotersgot more media exposure and attention, so they got noticed, but there are much more students who were quiet and did not participate but working hard elsewhere (studying and trying to get places). I am not a student at Cal Berkeley but what I do know is that their is a lineage of notable alumnis that have graduated from this prestigious university with such a rich history. These alumnis have contributed much to society...and No, they arent rich spoiled kids either like some of the jealous (maybe rejectedreviewers have rated...they are actually the opposite. How could you be a "tree hugger" and also rich spoiled kids driving BMWs? Wouldnt that be a conflict of belief and interest? Especially if majority of the kids dont have cars not because there are no room for student parking, but because everyone there walks or rides their bike! Its such a shame that these emotionally charged reviews are based on what they have seen in the media. The review should be for the beautiful cultural and historical aspect of the campus and the academics the university has to offer. The alumnis that are produced from this school are one that should be envied. And just a note, I am not a Liberal.

Great campus and programs. My wife is graduating today from the Master in Data Science! So proud of her!

I am a Cal student, so might be biased but the campus is huge and gorgeous! If you are in the neighborhood definitely take a tour. There are so many interesting facts about our campus that still amaze me. My 2 favorite spots would be the Morrison reading room in doe library and memorial glade.So much to see and do around Berkeley.

I used to work for UC Berkeley. It was an awesome experience. Boy, these white supremacists leaving bad reviews sure are going to influence smart people to not go there! Do yourselves a favor and worry about yourself.

Berkeley is so silent and peace place; this university is wonderful; campus is good too. If you are looking for more activate, it is not easy to find more in this location but it is so close the best city San Fransisco. whenever you want in the morning or eveining you can go easily. I love Berkeley library and some cafe too. You can try some perfect international food. people is nice, if you are looking for the best university in USA, yes you are in now.

While visiting Napa Valley for our anniversary we took some time to drive back through Oakland so we could stop by Berkeley University. My cousin went here and always raved about the place. I honesty wasn’t impressed, the campus looked old and in need of some repair, it was late in the evening and the street going up to the campus looked dangerous. Even the typical cafes you find outside a university looked sketchy. While I understand its appeal to the bohemian crowd I was a little disappointed.

I was really shaken when I saw how bad they oppressed the students at free speech week. It turns out this university has a history of oppressing students and encouraging criminal behavior - especially the fascist antifa. As a Canadian, my heart goes out to those of you who have been silenced by this soulless corporate entity.

By far the worst police department ever! We wish less people like their officers would be in this world thinking they have a little power they can treat any human being the way they want! I hope the also have mental training not only physical as they show they are! "Less brain more physical"

Scary, unsafe campus. Feel that this campus should shut down due to the explosive, hateful, unruly thugs who are injuring students and running this campus. NO parent who loves their child would even consider this campus or education were such extensive violence is allowed without any prosecution. Pull your child out of here!!

So far its not bad. Wifi is spotty on campus. The weather here is nice though.

Completed a Master of Information and Data Science from the School of Information. Excellent breadth of content (I picked the program since it was the only one at the time to include an ethics elective), and valuable network with the other (mostly working professionalstudents, plus UC Berkeleys connections with the tech scene.

The campus is beautiful and in a decent location not too far from San Francisco. The students are very passionate about what they do and it seems that the school really cares about providing students with clubs, services, and classes that can truly benefit them. It would be an honor to attend this school. A+ from me. Only downside is that it was hard to find good restaurants around there. And I watched a guy get arrested on campus so that was interesting. They dont really have parking options. Its a walking school for sure. The nature and campus is welcoming, gorgeous, and an overall peaceful atmosphere. Truly a beauty.

The students need to stop throwing M80s into the crowd because people who arent involved in their political arguments are getting hit with explosive weapons. This place is going downhill at an astounding rate. Theres no way that the current 4.6 rating for this college is a real number, look at everyone besides me who are sick of the violence and intimidation and racism that we are a victim of. I feel justified in saying I think its one of the worst colleges ever, its unsafe to express your calm, peaceful, freedom of ideas because you have a high chance to be physically or financially harmed out of the effect if you are the race and political stance that they have proven to hate to the point of violent terroristic attacks against those who are different than the majority.

Kind of full of racists who really hate white people. Refuse to have any proper conversation with someone with a different view to theirs. Riots every now and then. A lot of violence, destroying property, school does hardly anything to punish these crazy people. Instead they just do some blockades or let them do whatever they want for a short while to get the energy out. What is the world coming to ? I thought this was a university for learning, not a baby sitting center for spoiled brats.

The ones giving this school a 1 star rating have never stepped a foot on campus or been inside of this, or any university for that matter and maybe have a high school diploma at best. Its a hard university to get into and renown institution through out America. College is an awesome experience, you crazy little Trump lovers should try it!

Disgusted with your universitys oppression of free speech. You should be doing more to allow an open forum of discussion on your campus, and you should be publicly shaming those individuals, many who attend your school, who oppress free speech. You should take a hard stance that any student who oppresses free speech of another should be expelled. Your teachers should be instructed to talk in class about the importance of free speech, even when that speech is opposite of their own.

This university has lost their ability to teach from the very foundation of higher education! Human rights do not exist, neither does the freedom of speech unless it fits the faculty and their addenda!

An Excellent University. Berkeley actually lives up to the hype; once you get in I assure you that it will be one heck of an experience. Getting in here is difficult though, even with a 4.53 Weighted and 4.00 Unweighted GPA I had little hope Id get in.The guys who are complaining and whining about how Berkeley sucks and is racist are just salty rejects who still havent gotten over the fact that they werent able to enter this wonderful institution.

Thus school allows these lunatic children to protest, disrupt classes, and be completely racist to white students. They should not have safe spaces in schools. How is this preparing these students for the real world? Its not, in fact it is doing the exact opposite.

A disgusting place that allows racism to run free as a protest that forced white to not be able to leave or go into campus took place, and the faculty did nothing. Do yourself a favor and not apply to this joke of a university. They even took down their review part on their facebook page because they didnt like all the bad reviews they started getting! Yes, let us all censor things when it is convenient. Absolutely disgusting this university should be ashamed and anyone attending it should feel embarrassed.

I would encourage everyone to take a hard look at the actions of faculty and students at this school and realize it isnt a school of forward thinking and progression. The fact that faculty was encouraging their students to segregate a specific race from entering the campus a few days ago is a backwards way of going about getting their voice heard. Years ago racial barriers in this country were broken down to END segregation and it was meant to secure civil rights for people of EVERY color, including whites. Protesting against racism while doing a racist action shows that the students have learned NOTHING from going to this school.

Overpriced place for kids to hang out. No education Id provided at this "university" save your money and gang put at Walmart.This campus is filled will children that feel they are owed something, and will never pay their loans. They will bankrupt what used to be a fine institution.

Allowing protest is a good thing but allowing protest that separates based on race is applying. Disrupting students who have paid to go to school there is a big disservice to those kids. Thanks UC Berkeley for showing us what the last 3 decades of entitlement mentalities creates in our society.

School is allowing racist protestors to attack white students, disrupt school operations and perpetuate a culture of entitlement and hate in the name of LGBT rights. The worst part is that I saw police there and they said they were ensuring the protest remained "peaceful." Nothing was peaceful about it. The protestors violently pushed and hit white students who tried to cross the bridge, while the police just stood there on orders of the school administration to not interfere. This isnt about equality anymore, its about entitlement and a cult of rights. If the school administration does not stop this and condemn this kind of radical behavior, there will be legal actions taken.

Absolutely terrible display of "acceptable" racism today. Not only was I barred from parts of campus because I was WHITE but I was also disturbed while studying in our student union building. Thats honestly the last straw for me. The Administration refuses to do anything about these disruptions and only caters to non white, non straight, and non binary/ cis gendered peoples. While also stepping all over my rights and my education that IM PAYING FOR. After this semester UC Berkeley has seen the last of me, Im planning my transfer to The University of Louisville as soon as I can possibly leave. I will not attend this University ever again.

One of the prettiest campuses Ive been to :)

I did a review from doing a review, to make this review, in college teaching , you would be the 3rd reader, or in this case the 3rd review from a review

Very nice campus , rich in history. The most popular club is the Republican Club ! Dont be fooled by how liberal the city is. Also the birth of free speech on college campus started right here in Berkeley. John 3:16

Great campus! I have had multiple advisors who studied at this great institution. I felt like I belonged here even as a visitor checking out the campus. Less pretentious and more welcoming than the Stanford campus. :P

Huge campus if you dont know the place its easy to get lost ha ha.... beautiful campus..came here to put fliers up for the Lindsey Stirling Concert... students very help! A lot of different personalities here!!

Great school with some amazing people. Being a large public university, the school wont take care of you too much - be warned. But given the right amount of motivation and ambition, a student can excel within and out of the school.I personally dont seen anything too unique about the campus itself. Not nearly as beautiful or culturally rich as some of the top private institutions.

We walked to campus early one morning and just wandered around. The campus was bustling, and the students seemed to be rushing somewhere. The buildings are lovely, with some upgrades going on. The carillon is definitely the centerpiece of the fantastic campus.My only regret was that we did not have time to tour the vast facilities.One of the most lovely college campuses we have ever been to.

Great university. My education there was enjoyable. The atmosphere and the people are part of my permanent memories of this place. The price of the school is more now than it was when I was an undergraduate, but event then I found it a challenge to afford my tuition and books for the classes. I met many great teachers, however and have overall felt enlightened by my experience. 4 out of 5 - Would attend again.

Been there twice! First was taking my genius nephew to look over the university and plan together for him after his H.S. graduation.Secondly... visit him finally. CAL was one of the nicest university Ive ever been, quite and peaceful place as well.

Huge variety of courses and people with all sorts of interests. Berkeley has so much to offer in terms of courses and social life outside school. The different student groups are so many and various that you should have trouble to not find one or many that fits your interest.