University of California, Berkeley / Cal

In the eastern part of Berkeley, some 5mi/8km northeast of the bridge across the bay, lie the extensive grounds of the University of California (Telegraph Avenue and Bancroft Way), whose world reputation results not only from its numerous Nobel Prize winners, but also, inter alia, from the student unrest in the sixties which spread from here to the whole western world.

The university is often refered to as "Cal", a nickname which began when the Berkeley campus was the only University of California school in the state of California.