 University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley is one of the world’s premier research universities. It is committed to maintaining a research environment conducive to creating and freely disseminating the very best scholarly contributions and scientific discoveries. Berkeley is consistently rated among the top institutions in the world for the quality and breadth of its research enterprise, for the scholarly distinction of its faculty, for the excellence of its Ph.D. programs, and for the amount of funding received for support of its research programs. Berkeley ranks first amongst U.S. universities in the number of its research programs considered “distinguished” (32), according to the most recent National Research Council study of American universities. It also ranks first in the number of its graduate programs (35) considered to be among the top 10 in their fields.
Each year, the Berkeley campus receives nearly half a billion dollars in research support from external sources. The federal government provides nearly 65% of these sponsored research funds, and agencies of the state of California , industry, and the nonprofit sector supply the rest. Of the research funding provided by the U.S. government, the Department of Health and Human Services is the largest contributor (31% of federal funding) followed by the National Science Foundation (27%)
An important part of Berkeley ’s research mission is to ensure that the public benefits from our research through developing practical applications of our research results. To that end, the University’s Office of Technology Licensing works with campus inventors to facilitate the transfer of UC-Berkeley-created technologies and software into the commercial sector for public use. Currently, Berkeley owns 313 U.S. and 436 foreign patents and has 139 active license agreements with commercial firms for the use of its patented technologies. |
