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University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)[1] is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the California State Normal School which later evolved into San José State University. The branch was transferred to the University of California, becoming the Southern Branch of UC in 1919, making it the second-oldest of the ten-campus University of California system after the University of California, Berkeley.

"UCLA" redirects here. For other uses, see UCLA (disambiguation).

Former names

  • Los Angeles branch of the California State Normal School (1881–1887)
  • Los Angeles State Normal School (1887–1919)
  • Southern Branch of the University of California (1919–1927)
  • University of California at Los Angeles (1927–1958)[1]

May 23, 1919 (1919-05-23)[2]

$6.7 billion (2022)[3]

7,941[6]

26,139

47,518 (Fall 2021)[7]

32,121 (Fall 2021)[7]

13,994 (Fall 2021)[7]

1,403 (Fall 2021)[7]

Large city[9], 467 acres (189 ha)[8]

Blue and gold[10]
   

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UCLA offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a range of disciplines,[12] enrolling about 31,600 undergraduate and 14,300 graduate and professional students annually.[13] It received 174,914 undergraduate applications for Fall 2022, including transfers, making it the most applied-to university in the United States.[14] The university is organized into the College of Letters and Science and twelve professional schools.[15] Six of the schools offer undergraduate degree programs: Arts and Architecture, Engineering and Applied Science, Music, Nursing, Public Affairs, and Theater, Film and Television. Three others are graduate-level professional health science schools: Medicine, Dentistry, and Public Health. Its three remaining schools are Education & Information Studies, Management and Law.


UCLA student-athletes compete as the Bruins in the Pac-12 Conference. They have won 121 NCAA team championships, second only to Stanford University's 128 team titles.[16][17] 410 Bruins have made Olympic teams, winning 270 Olympic medals: 136 gold, 71 silver and 63 bronze.[18] UCLA has been represented in every Olympics since the university's founding (except in 1924) and has had a gold medalist in every Olympics in which the U.S. has participated since 1932.[19]


As of March 2024, 16 Nobel laureates, 11 Rhodes scholars, two Turing Award winners, two Chief Scientists of the U.S. Air Force, one Pritzker prize winner, 7 Pulitzer prize winners, two U.S. Poet laureates, one Gauss prize winner, and one Fields Medalist have been affiliated with it as faculty, researchers and alumni.[20][21] As of March 2024, 59 associated faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 17 to the American Philosophical Society, 32 to the National Academy of Engineering, 42 to the National Academy of Medicine, 10 to the National Academy of Inventors, and 167 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[22]

Notable UCLA alumni include:

Jackie Robinson, first African-American player in the MLB

Jackie Robinson, first African-American player in the MLB

James Franco, Academy Award-nominated actor

James Franco, Academy Award-nominated actor

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 2nd in NBA all-time scoring

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 2nd in NBA all-time scoring

Sean Astin, actor

Sean Astin, actor

Arthur Ashe, former world #1 tennis player, who won three Grand Slam titles

Arthur Ashe, former world #1 tennis player, who won three Grand Slam titles

Sara Bareilles, Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter

Sara Bareilles, Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter

Randy Newman, singer-songwriter

Randy Newman, singer-songwriter

Leonard Nimoy, actor, who played Spock in Star Trek

Leonard Nimoy, actor, who played Spock in Star Trek

Ben Shapiro, conservative political commentator

Ben Shapiro, conservative political commentator

Stefano Bloch, author, graffiti artist, academic

Stefano Bloch, author, graffiti artist, academic

Jack Black, actor and comedian

Jack Black, actor and comedian

Mayim Bialik, actress and host of Jeopardy!

Mayim Bialik, actress and host of Jeopardy!

Tom Bradley, first African-American Mayor of Los Angeles

Tom Bradley, first African-American Mayor of Los Angeles

Carol Burnett, actress

Carol Burnett, actress

Steve Martin, actor and comedian

Steve Martin, actor and comedian

Rob Reiner, actor and filmmaker

Rob Reiner, actor and filmmaker

Ben Stiller, actor and comedian

Ben Stiller, actor and comedian

Johnnie Cochran, lawyer and civil rights activist

Johnnie Cochran, lawyer and civil rights activist

Francis Ford Coppola, Academy Award-winning filmmaker

Francis Ford Coppola, Academy Award-winning filmmaker

Paul Schrader, screenwriter and film director

Paul Schrader, screenwriter and film director

Mark Harmon, actor and producer

Mark Harmon, actor and producer

George Takei, actor and activist

George Takei, actor and activist

Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator from New York

Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator from New York

James Dean, actor

James Dean, actor

Jimmy Connors, former world #1 tennis player, who won eight Grand Slam titles

Jimmy Connors, former world #1 tennis player, who won eight Grand Slam titles

Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors

Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors

Tim Robbins, Academy Award-winning actor

Tim Robbins, Academy Award-winning actor

Russell Westbrook, NBA MVP and all-time leader in triple-doubles

Sam Mewis, professional soccer player for USWNT and KCCFC

Abby Dahlkemper, professional soccer player for USWNT and San Diego Wave FC

Azadeh Kian, Social Scientist and Director at Paris Cité University

Jessie Fleming, professional soccer player for CANWNT and Chelsea F.C. Women

2019 College Admissions Bribery Scandal

– UCLA Student Newspaper

Daily Bruin

UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center

Dundjerski, Marina. UCLA: The First Century (2012) ; a major history

contents

Hayes-Bautista, David E., et al. "Reginaldo Francisco del Valle: UCLA's Forgotten Forefather." Southern California Quarterly 88.1 (2006): 1-35.

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Pelfrey, Patricia A. A brief history of the University of California (2nd ed. 2004)

Purdy, William Charles. "Something New Under the Los Angeles Sun: UCLA's Early Years, 1919-1938" (PhD dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2016.10056032) ; a scholarly history and well illustrated.

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Smith, John Matthew. The sons of Westwood: John Wooden, UCLA, and the dynasty that changed college basketball (University of Illinois Press, 2013) .

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Stadtman. Verne A. The University of California, 1868-1968 (1970), a standard scholarly history focusedon Berkeley and the origins of UCLA.

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Official website

UCLA Athletics website

Archived February 26, 2021, at the Wayback Machine. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Image of UCLA on a zoning map of Los Angeles, 1927