Berkeley's academic departments consistently rank among the top five in the country. The faculty, renowned for both teaching and scholarship, currently includes seven Nobel Laureates and 29 MacArthur Fellows.

National Rankings	Source
Berkeley ranks first nationally in the number of graduate programs in the top 10 in their fields. (97% of Berkeley's programs made the top 10 list.)	National Research Council
Berkeley ranks first nationally in the number of "distinguished" programs for the scholarship of the faculty [32 programs]	National Research Council
See National Research Council rankings by department.

Awards Held by Faculty		Current
American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows		205
American Philosophical Society		38
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows		227
A. M. Turing (computing)		3
Fields Medal in Mathematics		3
Fulbright Scholars		76
Guggenheim Fellows		358
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators		13
Institute of Medicine members		11
MacArthur Fellows		29
National Academy of Education		7
National Academy of Engineering		85
National Academy of Sciences		132
National Medal of Science		13
National Poet Laureates		1
National Science Foundation Young Investigators Awards		61
Nobel Prize		7
Polk Award in Journalism		2
Priestley Medal		4
Pulitzer Prizes		4
Sloan Fellows (young researchers)		92
Wolf Prizes in agriculture, mathematics, chemistry, physics, medicine and the arts		5

 (Source: Public Affairs Office, UC Berkeley)