Bezerkely is weird....but one of the premier universities ranked #1 in public universitys and more top ten grad programs then any other.....your girl's Ph.D there means a hell of alot.....it is the town that is the most weird...and it is the Hayward fault that runs thru it...not the San Andreas fault.....
Believe me I am well aware of how how good her graduate program is (4th in the country). It is also true that it is town that's the weirdest, but that certainly doesn't mean the campus isn't weird too. This is largely, of course, because people from the town wander into the campus.