The University of California, Berkeley is a public university in Berkeley, California. The University of California was founded in 1868, and Berkeley reports 33,070 undergraduate and 12,812 graduate students for fall 2024.
Agriculture and natural resources are taught and researched in the Rausser College of Natural Resources, which traces its roots to the College of Agriculture formed in 1868 and took its current name in 2020. The college says more than 100 faculty of the Agricultural Experiment Station are housed there, in the departments of Agricultural & Resource Economics; Environmental Science, Policy & Management; Metabolic Biology & Nutrition; and Plant & Microbial Biology. It lists projects on plant-microbiome interactions, gene editing of crops for disease resistance and risk management tools for agricultural producers. Field facilities include the Gill Tract and the Oxford Tract, and the college is home to, or closely affiliated with, centres such as Berkeley Forests, the Berkeley Food Institute and the Innovative Genomics Institute.