First seven residential colleges are opened. The distinctive system for living and learning, based on the English model at Oxford and Cambridge, had expanded to twelve residential colleges by 1963. With an average of 430 undergraduate members each, these communities offer both the intimacy of a small college and the vast resources of a major research university. Each college surrounds a courtyard and occupies up to a full city block, providing a congenial community where residents live, eat, socialize, and pursue a variety of academic and extracurricular activities. Berkeley College dining hall.
