Berkeley has graduated more students who would go on to earn doctorates than any other university in the United States. Its
enrollment of National Merit Scholars is third in the
nation. With more than 7,000 courses in nearly 300 degree programs, the university awards about 5,500 bachelor's degrees, 2,000
master's degrees, 900 doctorates and 200 law degrees each year.The University currently boasts 223 American Academy of Arts & Sciences Fellows, 3 Fields Medal holders, 83 Fulbright
Scholars, 139 Guggenheim Fellows, 8 Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Investigators, 15 MacArthur Fellows, 83 members of the
National Academy of Engineering, 125
members of the National Academy of
Sciences, 8 Nobel Prize winners, 3 Pulitzer Prize winners, 70 Sloan Fellows, and 7 Wolf Prize winners among a bevy of
distinguished faculty.According to the National Research Council,
Berkeley ranks first nationally in the number of graduate programs in the top 10 in their fields (97 percent) and first
nationally in the number of "distinguished" programs for the scholarship of the faculty (32 programs). Rankings performed in 2004
by the UK
Times Higher Education
Supplement named Berkeley the No. 2 university overall, No. 1 engineering and information technology university, and the
No. 4 science university among the Top World Universities (The
THES World rankings were based on peer-review reputation
ratings, volume of citations per faculty member, faculty-to-student ratios, the percentage of overseas students, and the
percentage of international faculty employed). Similar rankings performed in 2004 by the Institute of Higher Education in
Shanghai placed Berkeley at No. 4 among the Top 500 World Universities.Finally, with about 9.2 million volumes held in 18 campus libraries, UC Berkeley library holdings rank fourth in North America, after the Library of Congress, Harvard
University, and Yale University.