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{{Short description|Public research university in California, U.S.}}
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 | name                   = {{nowrap|University of California,}} {{nowrap|Los Angeles}}
 | image                  = The University of California UCLA.svg
 | image_upright          = .6
 | former_names           = {{collapsible list
 | bullets=|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)<ref name="Dundjerski 2011">{{Cite book |last=Dundjerski |first=Marina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WbLr-4QteEYC&pg=PA46 |title=UCLA: The First Century |date=2011 |publisher=Third Millennium Publishing |isbn=978-1-906507-37-4 |location=Los Angeles |page=46 |access-date=February 3, 2019 |archive-date=August 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200820010227/https://books.google.com/books?id=WbLr-4QteEYC&pg=PA46 |url-status=live }}</ref> }}
 | motto                  = {{lang|la|[[Fiat lux]]}} ([[Latin]])
 | mottoeng               = "[[Let there be light]]"
 | accreditation          = [[Western Association of Schools and Colleges - Senior College and University Commission|WSCUC]]
 | established            = {{Start date and age|1919|05|23}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=A brief history of the University of California |url=https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs//programs-and-initiatives/faculty-resources-advancement/faculty-handbook-sections/brief-history.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021131936/https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs//programs-and-initiatives/faculty-resources-advancement/faculty-handbook-sections/brief-history.html |archive-date=October 21, 2020 |access-date=December 3, 2020 |publisher=Academic Personnel and Programs}}</ref>
 | type                   = [[Public university|Public]] [[land-grant]] [[research university]]
 | parent                 = [[University of California]]
 | academic_affiliations  = {{Hlist|[[Association of American Universities|AAU]]|[[Association of Pacific Rim Universities|APRU]]|[[Universities Research Association|URA]]|[[National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program|Space-grant]]}}
 | endowment              = $9.79 billion ([[Fiscal year|FY]]2024)<br />(Total Endowment Assets)<ref name=UCOP2024>As of June 30, 2024. {{cite web |url=https://www.ucop.edu/investment-office/investment-reports/annual-reports/annual-endwoment-report-fy-2023-2024.pdf |title=University of California Annual Endowment Report – Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2024 |date=November 2024 |website=Office of the President |publisher=[[Regents of the University of California]] |access-date=February 5, 2025}}</ref>
 | chancellor             = [[Julio Frenk]]  <!-- This automatically links to his English Wikipedia article -->
 | undergrad              = 33,040 (fall 2023)<ref name="ucla.edu">{{Cite web |title=UCLA APB - Enrollment |url=https://apb.ucla.edu/campus-statistics/enrollment |access-date=June 18, 2022 |publisher=UCLA Academic Planning and Budget |archive-date=June 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220604014242/https://apb.ucla.edu/campus-statistics/enrollment |url-status=live }}</ref>
 | postgrad               = 13,636 (fall 2023)<ref name="ucla.edu" />
 | other_students         = 1,372 (fall 2023)<ref name="ucla.edu" />
 | administrative_staff   = 32,883 (fall 2023)<ref>"https://apb.ucla.edu/campus-statistics/faculty {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240519023538/https://apb.ucla.edu/campus-statistics/faculty |date=May 19, 2024 }}"</ref>
 | vice_chancellor        = Darnell Hunt
 | faculty                = 7,941<ref>{{Cite web |year=2023 |title=Facts and Figures |url=https://www.ucla.edu/about/facts-and-figures |publisher=UCLA |access-date=December 6, 2021 |archive-date=December 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210203215/https://www.ucla.edu/about/facts-and-figures |url-status=live }}</ref>
 | city                   = [[Los Angeles]]
 | state                  = California
 | country                = United States
 | coordinates            = {{Coord|34.0722|N|118.4427|W|type:edu_region:US-CA|display=inline,title}}
 | campus                 = Large city<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Los+angeles&s=all&pg=3&id=110662 |title=College Navigator – University of California-Los Angeles |publisher=nces.ed.gov|access-date=November 7, 2021|archive-date=July 29, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220729063529/https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Los+angeles&s=all&pg=3&id=110662|url-status=live}}</ref>
 | campus_size            = {{convert|467|acre|ha}}<ref name="Campus Facts">{{Cite web |title=University of California Annual Financial Report 18/19 |url=https://finreports.universityofcalifornia.edu/index.php?file=18-19/pdf/fullreport-1819.pdf |access-date=October 12, 2020 |publisher=University of California |page=8 |archive-date=September 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923042236/https://finreports.universityofcalifornia.edu/index.php?file=18-19%2Fpdf%2Ffullreport-1819.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
 | colors                 = [[UCLA Blue|Blue]] and [[UCLA Gold|gold]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brand Guidelines {{!}} Identity {{!}} Colors |url=http://brand.ucla.edu/identity/colors |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124110422/http://brand.ucla.edu/identity/colors |archive-date=November 24, 2018 |access-date=November 23, 2018}}</ref><br />{{color box|#2774AE}}&nbsp;{{color box|#FFD100}}
 | sporting_affiliations  = {{hlist|[[NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision|NCAA Division I FBS]] – [[Big Ten Conference|Big Ten]] |[[Mountain Pacific Sports Federation|MPSF]]}}
 | sports_nickname        = [[UCLA Bruins|Bruins]]
 | mascot                 = {{Hlist|[[Joe Bruin]]|Josephine Bruin}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ho, Melanie |year=2005 |title=Bruin Bear |url=http://www.english.ucla.edu/ucla1960s/6263/bear.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070219034235/http://www.english.ucla.edu/ucla1960s/6263/bear.htm |archive-date=February 19, 2007 |access-date=May 20, 2007 |publisher=UCLA English department}}</ref>
 | website                = {{URL|https://www.ucla.edu/| ucla.edu}}
 | logo                   = University of California, Los Angeles logo.svg
 | logo_size              = 200
 | free_label             = Newspaper
 | free                   = ''[[Daily Bruin]]''
}}

The '''University of California, Los Angeles''' ('''UCLA''')<ref name="Dundjerski 2011"/> is a [[public university|public]] [[Land-grant university|land-grant]] [[research university]] in the [[Westwood, Los Angeles|Westwood]] neighborhood of [[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 Jose State University|San José State University]]. The branch was transferred to the University of California to become the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919, making it the second-oldest of the ten-campus [[University of California]] system after the [[University of California, Berkeley]].

UCLA offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a range of disciplines,<ref>{{Cite press release |last=Vazquez |first=Ricardo |date=January 18, 2013 |title=UCLA sets new undergraduate applications record |url=http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-sets-new-undergraduate-applications-242778.aspx |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921061556/http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-sets-new-undergraduate-applications-242778.aspx |archive-date=September 21, 2013 |access-date=July 14, 2013 |publisher=UCLA Newsroom}}</ref> enrolling about 31,600 undergraduate and 14,300 graduate and professional students annually.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Facts & Figures |url=https://www.ucla.edu/about/facts-and-figures|access-date=December 6, 2021 |publisher=www.ucla.edu|archive-date=December 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210203215/https://www.ucla.edu/about/facts-and-figures|url-status=live}}</ref> It received 174,914 undergraduate applications for Fall 2022, including transfers, the most of any [[Higher education in the United States|university in the United States]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Admissions |url=https://apb.ucla.edu/campus-statistics/admissions|access-date=November 11, 2022 |publisher=UCLA Academic Planning and Budget |archive-date=December 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206000233/https://apb.ucla.edu/campus-statistics/admissions|url-status=live}}</ref> The university is organized into the [[UCLA College of Letters and Science|College of Letters and Science]] and twelve professional schools.<ref>{{Cite web |title=College and Schools |url=https://www.ucla.edu/academics/college-and-schools |access-date=December 6, 2021 |publisher=www.ucla.edu|archive-date=December 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211213215313/https://www.ucla.edu/academics/college-and-schools|url-status=live}}</ref> Six of the schools offer undergraduate degree programs: [[UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture|Arts and Architecture]], [[UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science|Engineering and Applied Science]], [[UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music|Music]], [[UCLA School of Nursing|Nursing]], [[UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs|Public Affairs]], and [[UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television|Theater, Film and Television]]. Three others are graduate-level professional health science schools: [[David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA|Medicine]], [[UCLA School of Dentistry|Dentistry]], and [[UCLA School of Public Health|Public Health]]. Its three remaining schools are [[UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies|Education & Information Studies]], [[UCLA Anderson School of Management|Management]] and [[UCLA School of Law|Law]].

UCLA student-athletes compete as the [[UCLA Bruins|Bruins]] in the [[Big Ten Conference]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/historic-summer-of-realignment-kicks-off-july-1-as-texas-oklahoma-officially-join-sec-acc-adds-smu/ |title=Historic summer of realignment kicks off July 1 as Texas, Oklahoma officially join SEC; ACC adds SMU |last=Salerno |first=Cameron |date=July 1, 2024 |website=[[CBS Sports]] |publisher=CBS Interactive |access-date=July 16, 2024 |archive-date=July 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240716170227/https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/historic-summer-of-realignment-kicks-off-july-1-as-texas-oklahoma-officially-join-sec-acc-adds-smu/ |url-status=live }}</ref> They won 125 [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] team championships while in the Big Ten and the [[Pac-12 Conference]], second only to [[Stanford University]]'s 128 team titles.<ref>{{Cite web|title=NCAA Championships|url=https://uclabruins.com/sports/2016/9/13/NCAA-championships.aspx|access-date=December 6, 2021|website=UCLA|language=en|archive-date=July 29, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220729063530/https://uclabruins.com/sports/2016/9/13/NCAA-championships.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Home of Champions|url=https://gostanford.com/sports/2017/5/22/home-of-champions.aspx|access-date=December 6, 2021|website=Stanford University Athletics|language=en|archive-date=December 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212052921/https://gostanford.com/sports/2017/5/22/home-of-champions.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref> 436 Bruins have made [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] teams, winning [[List of American universities with Olympic medals|284 Olympic medals]]: 141 [[Gold medal|gold]], 74 [[Silver medal|silver]] and 69 [[Bronze medal|bronze]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bruins Win 14 Medals at 2024 Olympic Games |url=https://uclabruins.com/news/2024/8/12/bruin-athletics-bruins-win-14-medals-at-2024-olympic-games |access-date=September 4, 2025 |website=UCLA Bruins |date=August 12, 2024 |archive-date=August 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240815155311/https://uclabruins.com/news/2024/8/12/bruin-athletics-bruins-win-14-medals-at-2024-olympic-games |url-status=live }}</ref> UCLA has been represented in every Olympics since the university's founding (except in [[1924 Summer Olympics|1924]]) and has had a gold medalist in every Olympics in which the U.S. has participated since 1932.<ref>{{Cite web |title=UCLA's Olympic Tradition and Medal Winners |url=http://www.uclabruins.com/ot/olympic-medalists.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524185236/http://www.uclabruins.com/ot/olympic-medalists.html |archive-date=May 24, 2013}}</ref>

{{As of|2025|October}}, 19 [[List of Nobel laureates|Nobel laureates]], 11 [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes scholars]], 3 [[Turing Award]] winners, 2 [[Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force|Chief Scientists of the U.S. Air Force]], 1 [[Pritzker Architecture Prize|Pritzker Prize]] winner, 7 [[Pulitzer Prize]] winners, 2 [[United States Poet Laureate|U.S. Poet laureates]], 1 [[Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize|Gauss prize]] winner, and 1 [[Fields Medal]]ist have been affiliated with it as faculty, researchers and alumni.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ucla.edu/about/awards-and-honors/faculty |title=Recipients of UCLA's Faculty Awards & Honors &#124; UCLA &#124; UCLA |access-date=October 8, 2021 |archive-date=April 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220421093153/https://www.ucla.edu/about/awards-and-honors/faculty |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ucla.edu/about/awards-and-honors/alumni-and-student-honors |title=UCLA Student and Alumni Awards & Honors Recipients &#124; UCLA &#124; UCLA |access-date=December 6, 2021 |archive-date=October 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029175102/https://www.ucla.edu/about/awards-and-honors/alumni-and-student-honors |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="University Nobel Prizes">{{cite web |url=https://www.aronfrishberg.com/projects/university-nobel-prizes |title=Universities with the Most Nobel Prizes |access-date=September 4, 2025 |archive-date=March 21, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250321070955/https://www.aronfrishberg.com/projects/university-nobel-prizes |url-status=live }}</ref> {{as of|April 2025}}, 61 associated faculty members have been elected to the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]], 17 to the [[American Philosophical Society]], 34 to the [[National Academy of Engineering]], 49 to the [[National Academy of Medicine]], 29 to the [[National Academy of Inventors]], and 71 to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Faculty Honors |url=https://www.ucla.edu/about/awards-and-honors/faculty |access-date=14 April 2025 |publisher=UCLA}}</ref>

==History==
{{Main|History of the University of California, Los Angeles}}

[[File:UCLA-old-statenormal-campus.jpg|thumb|left|The Los Angeles branch of the [[California State Normal School]], 1881]]
[[File:(Reginaldo F. del Valle) (12911880024) (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[Reginaldo Francisco del Valle]] was instrumental in the creation of the Los Angeles [[California State Normal School]], predecessor to UCLA]]
In March 1881, at the request of state senator [[Reginaldo Francisco del Valle]], the California State Legislature authorized the creation of a southern branch of the California State [[Normal School]] (now [[San José State University]]) in downtown Los Angeles to train teachers for the growing population of [[Southern California]]. The "Los Angeles branch of the California State Normal School" opened on August 29, 1882, on what is now the site of the Central Library of the Los Angeles Public Library system. The facility included a [[Laboratory school|demonstration school]] where teachers-in-training could practice their techniques with children. That elementary school would become the present day [[UCLA Lab School]].<ref>Administrative/Biographical History, UCLA Lab School records (University Archives Record Series 208). UCLA Library Special Collections, University Archives, University of California, Los Angeles. [https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8w66ssr/entire_text/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206224651/https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8w66ssr/entire_text/|date=December 6, 2021}}</ref> In 1887, the branch campus became independent and changed its name to Los Angeles State Normal School.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018 |title=Bruin Timeline |url=https://www.library.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/PowellArchitecturecompressed_6.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412181150/https://www.library.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/PowellArchitecturecompressed_6.pdf |archive-date=April 12, 2019 |access-date=April 17, 2018 |publisher=UCLA GSE&IS}}</ref><ref name="Hamilton, Andrew 2004">{{Cite web |last=Hamilton, Andrew |date=June 18, 2004 |title=(UC) Los Angeles: Historical Overview |url=http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/UCHistory/general_history/campuses/ucla/overview.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060430204632/http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/uchistory/general_history/campuses/ucla/overview.html |archive-date=April 30, 2006 |access-date=June 20, 2006 |website=University of California History, Digital Archives (from Berkeley)}}</ref>

In 1914, the school moved to a new campus on [[Vermont Avenue]] (now the site of [[Los Angeles City College]]) in [[East Hollywood, Los Angeles|East Hollywood]]. In 1917, UC Regent [[Edward Augustus Dickson]], the only regent representing the Southland at the time, and [[Ernest Carroll Moore]], Director of the Normal School, began to lobby the State Legislature to enable the school to become the second [[University of California]] campus, after [[University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]]. They met resistance from UC Berkeley alumni, Northern California members of the state legislature and then-UC President [[Benjamin Ide Wheeler]], who were all vigorously opposed to the idea of a southern campus.{{Citation needed|date=August 2025}}

The state constitution expressly protected the autonomy of the University of California from political interference, which meant the Legislature could not directly command the Board of Regents to create a southern campus.<ref name="Dundjerski_Page_15">{{cite book |last1=Dundjerski |first1=Marina |title=UCLA: The First Century |date=2011 |publisher=Third Millennium Publishing |location=Los Angeles |isbn=978-1-906507-37-4 |page=15 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WbLr-4QteEYC&pg=PA15}}</ref>  However, the state constitution did not prohibit the state legislature from passing legislation to create additional state universities.<ref name="Dundjerski_Page_15" />  The supporters of the Los Angeles State Normal School used the possibility of that scenario to pressure the Board of Regents to voluntarily accept the normal school as UC's southern campus.<ref name="Dundjerski_Page_15" />

[[File:UCLA-vermontcampus-1922.jpg|thumb|Southern Branch of the University of California's Vermont Campus, 1922]]
On May 23, 1919, the Southern Californians' efforts were rewarded when Governor [[William Stephens (American politician)|William D. Stephens]] signed Assembly Bill 626 into law, which acquired the land and buildings and transformed the Los Angeles Normal School into the "Southern Branch of the University of California".<ref name="Dundjerski_Page_21">{{cite book |last1=Dundjerski |first1=Marina |title=UCLA: The First Century |date=2011 |publisher=Third Millennium Publishing |location=Los Angeles |isbn=978-1-906507-37-4 |page=21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WbLr-4QteEYC&pg=PA21}}</ref> The same legislation added its general undergraduate program, the Junior College.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 20, 2007 |title=UCLA University Archives |url=http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/archives.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060615035434/http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/archives.htm <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date=June 15, 2006 |access-date=June 20, 2006 |website=UCLA Library}}</ref> The Southern Branch campus opened on September 15 of that year, offering two-year undergraduate programs to 250 Junior College students and 1,250 students in the Teachers College.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dundjerski |first=Marina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WbLr-4QteEYC&q=ucla%2520southern%2520branch%2520september%252015&pg=PA26 |title=UCLA: The First Century |date=January 1, 2011 |publisher=Third Millennium Publishing |isbn=978-1-906507-37-4 |language=en |access-date=November 20, 2020 |archive-date=April 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407160721/https://books.google.com/books?id=WbLr-4QteEYC&q=ucla%2520southern%2520branch%2520september%252015&pg=PA26 |url-status=live }}</ref> While [[University of Southern California]] students criticized the "branch" as a mere "twig", Southern Californians continued to fight Northern Californians for the right to three and then four years of instruction.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dundjerski |first=Marina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WbLr-4QteEYC&pg=PA27 |title=UCLA: The First Century |date=2011 |publisher=Third Millennium Publishing |isbn=978-1-906507-37-4 |location=Los Angeles |page=27 |access-date=February 21, 2021 |archive-date=April 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407160749/https://books.google.com/books?id=WbLr-4QteEYC&pg=PA27 |url-status=live }}</ref> In December 1923, the Board of Regents authorized a fourth year of instruction and transformed the Junior College into the College of Letters and Science,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dundjerski |first=Marina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WbLr-4QteEYC&pg=PA31 |title=UCLA: The First Century |date=2011 |publisher=Third Millennium Publishing |isbn=978-1-906507-37-4 |location=Los Angeles |page=31 |access-date=February 21, 2021 |archive-date=July 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210713080700/https://books.google.com/books?id=WbLr-4QteEYC&pg=PA31 |url-status=live }}</ref> which awarded its first bachelor's degrees in June 1925.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dundjerski |first=Marina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WbLr-4QteEYC&pg=PA33 |title=UCLA: The First Century |date=2011 |publisher=Third Millennium Publishing |isbn=978-1-906507-37-4 |location=Los Angeles |page=33 |access-date=February 21, 2021 |archive-date=July 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210713080654/https://books.google.com/books?id=WbLr-4QteEYC&pg=PA33 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Under UC President [[William Wallace Campbell]], enrollment at the Southern Branch expanded so rapidly that by the mid-1920s the institution was outgrowing the 25&nbsp;[[acre]] Vermont Avenue location. The Regents announced the new "Beverly Site" — just west of [[Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills]] — in 1925. After the athletic teams entered the [[Pacific Coast Conference|Pacific Coast conference]] in 1926, the Southern Branch student council adopted the nickname "Bruins", a name offered by the student council at UC Berkeley.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Garrigues, George |year=2001 |title=The Daily Bruin Is Born |url=http://www.ulwaf.com/Daily-Bruin-History/03_Birth.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060528022042/http://ulwaf.com/Daily-Bruin-History/03_Birth.html |archive-date=May 28, 2006 |access-date=July 3, 2006 |website=Loud Bark and Curious Eyes, A History of the UCLA Daily Bruin, 1919–1955}}</ref> On February 1, 1927, the Regents renamed the [[History of the University of California, Los Angeles|Southern Branch]] the "University of California at Los Angeles".<ref name="Dundjerski 2011" /> In the same year, the state broke ground in [[Westwood, Los Angeles, California|Westwood]] on land sold for $1 million, less than one-third its value, by real estate developers [[Janss Investment Company|Edwin and Harold Janss]], for whom the Janss Steps are named.<ref name="Hamilton, Andrew 2004" /> The campus in Westwood opened to students in 1929.

The original four buildings were the College Library (now [[Powell Library]]), [[Royce Hall]], the Physics-Biology Building (which became the Humanities Building and is now the Renee and David Kaplan Hall), and the Chemistry Building (now Haines Hall), arrayed around a quadrangular courtyard on the 400&nbsp;acre (1.6&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) campus. The first undergraduate classes on the new campus were held in 1929 with 5,500 students. UCLA was permitted to award the [[master's degree]] in 1933, and the [[doctorate]] in 1936, against continued resistance from UC Berkeley.<ref>{{Cite web |last=UCLA Alumni |year=2012 |title=History: The Beginning |url=http://alumni.ucla.edu/alumni-association/history/default.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130404100138/http://alumni.ucla.edu/alumni-association/history/default.aspx |archive-date=April 4, 2013 |access-date=April 4, 2013 |website=UCLA Alumni}}</ref>

===Maturity as a university===
[[File:University of California At Los Angeles, Westwood Hills, Calif (74440).jpg|thumb|Postcard {{Circa|1930}} to 1945 of the new Westwood campus.]]

During its first 32 years, UCLA was treated as an off-site department of the main campus in Berkeley. As such, its presiding officer was called a "provost". This remained the case even when it grew into a major institution in its own right. In 1951, UCLA was formally elevated to coequal status with UC Berkeley, with both institutions headed by chancellors who reported on an equal basis to the president of the UC system. [[Raymond B. Allen]] was the first UCLA chief executive to be granted the title of chancellor. In November 1958,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Atkinson |first1=Richard C. |author1-link=Richard C. Atkinson |title=Official Designation of UC Campuses |url=https://policy.ucop.edu/_files/da/2-26-99name.html |website=policy.ucop.edu |publisher=Regents of the University of California |access-date=March 21, 2024 |archive-date=February 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226001917/https://policy.ucop.edu/_files/da/2-26-99name.html |url-status=live |date=1999-02-26}}</ref> the "at" in UCLA's name was replaced with a comma, a symbol of its independence from Berkeley.<ref name="Dundjerski 2011" />

The appointment of [[Franklin David Murphy]] to the position of chancellor in 1960 helped spark an era of tremendous growth of facilities and faculty honors. This era secured UCLA's position as a proper university in its own right {{Opinion|date=December 2024}}{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}and not simply a branch of the UC system.

===Recent history===

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On June 1, 2016, [[2016 UCLA shooting|two men were killed]] in a [[murder-suicide]] at an engineering building in the university. School officials put the campus on [[lockdown]] as [[Los Angeles Police Department]] officers, including [[SWAT]], cleared the campus.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Yan |first1=Holly |last2=Bloom |first2=Deborah |date=June 1, 2016 |title=UCLA shooting: 2 killed in murder-suicide, campus on lockdown |publisher=CNN |url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/01/us/ucla-shooting-report/index.html |access-date=June 1, 2016 |archive-date=June 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601193243/http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/01/us/ucla-shooting-report/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In February 2022, Matthew Harris, a former lecturer and postdoctoral fellow at UCLA, was arrested after allegedly making numerous threats of violence against students and faculty members of UCLA's Philosophy Department.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bella |first=Timothy |date=February 1, 2022 |title=Ex-UCLA Lecturer Who Appeared to Threaten a Mass Shooting is Arrested in Colorado, University says |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/01/ucla-lecturer-threats-matthew-harris/ |access-date=October 13, 2022 |newspaper=Washington Post |archive-date=November 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221111001128/https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/01/ucla-lecturer-threats-matthew-harris/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2018, a student-led community coalition known as "Westwood Forward" successfully led an effort to break UCLA and Westwood Village away from the existing Westwood Neighborhood Council and form a new North Westwood Neighborhood Council, with over 2,000 out of 3,521 stakeholders voting in favor of the split.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 26, 2018 |first1=Alejandra|last1=Reyes-Velarde|title=Westwood students, community leaders vote to create new neighborhood council after heated debate |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-westwood-council-vote-20180525-story.html |access-date=February 17, 2020 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US |archive-date=February 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204081840/https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-westwood-council-vote-20180525-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Westwood Forward's campaign focused on making housing more affordable and encouraging nightlife in Westwood by opposing many of the restrictions on housing developments and restaurants the Westwood Neighborhood Council had promoted.<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 8, 2019 |title=How UCLA Students Fought for—and Won—the Right to Shape Westwood's Future |url=https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/north-westwood-neighborhood-council-ucla/ |first1=Gabe|last1=Schneider|publisher=The Arena Group Holdings, Inc| access-date=February 17, 2020 |website=Los Angeles Magazine |language=en-US |archive-date=February 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218071341/https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/north-westwood-neighborhood-council-ucla/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2022, UCLA signed an agreement to partner with the [[Tongva]] for the caretaking and landscaping of various areas of the campus. This included land use for ceremonial events and educational workshops and outreach events.<ref>{{Cite web |title=UCLA signs agreement with local tribal community for use of land |url=https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-local-tribal-community-gabrielino-tongva-land |access-date=2023-01-06 |author-first1=Jessica|author-last1=Wolf|date=30 November 2022|website=Newsroom |publisher=University of California, Los Angeles|language=en-US |archive-date=January 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230106064908/https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-local-tribal-community-gabrielino-tongva-land |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Spring 2024 pro-Palestine encampment ===
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On April 25, 2024, an [[2024 University of California, Los Angeles pro-Palestinian campus occupation|occupation protest began at UCLA]] to protest the administration's investments in [[Israel]] amid the [[Gaza war]].<ref name="UC rejects calls for Israel-related divestment, boycott driving pro-Palestinian protests">{{cite web |last1=Watanabe |first1=Teresa |title=UC rejects calls for Israel-related divestment, boycott driving pro-Palestinian protests |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-27/uc-rejects-calls-for-israel-related-divestment-boycotts-driving-pro-palestinian-protests |website=The Los Angeles Times |date=April 28, 2024 |access-date=12 August 2024}}</ref> On April 28, clashes occurred between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel protesters as [[Stand With Us]] rallied on the campus,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Alsharif |first=Mirna |date=2024-04-29 |title=Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at campuses as colleges crack down on encampments |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hundreds-palestinian-protesters-arrested-campuses-universities-crack-e-rcna149705 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240429023605/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hundreds-palestinian-protesters-arrested-campuses-universities-crack-e-rcna149705 |archive-date=April 29, 2024 |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref> in a protest organized by the [[Israeli American Council]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=FitzGerald |first=James |date=2024-04-29 |title=US campus protests: Rival Gaza protest groups clash at UCLA |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68919182 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240429121312/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68919182 |archive-date=April 29, 2024 |access-date=2024-04-29 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref>

As part of the pro-Palestinian protests, students set up encampments on UCLA grounds.<ref name="UC rejects calls for Israel-related divestment, boycott driving pro-Palestinian protests" /> The university provided the encampment with private security and metal barricades "to prevent violent confrontations between [...] protesters."<ref name="UCLA faces injunction over exclusion of Jewish students from parts of campus">{{cite web |last1=Pettersson |first1=Edvard |title=UCLA faces injunction over exclusion of Jewish students from parts of campus |url=https://www.courthousenews.com/ucla-faces-injunction-over-exclusion-of-jewish-students-from-parts-of-campus/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812182907/https://www.courthousenews.com/ucla-faces-injunction-over-exclusion-of-jewish-students-from-parts-of-campus/ |archive-date=August 12, 2024 |access-date=12 August 2024 |website=Courthouse News Service}}</ref> As a safety measure, several days after the establishment of the encampment, students put into place a voucher system for entry whereby one could only enter the encampment if they knew someone already inside who could vouch that they would not incite violence or undermine the encampment's safety. This measure, which produced periods in which no one was let in, was cited as justification for referring to the encampment as a "Jew Exclusion Zone" by some students on campus.<ref name="Judge orders UCLA, Jewish students to draft plan for equal campus access in wake of protests">{{cite web |last1=Kaleem |first1=Jawed |date=July 30, 2024 |title=Judge orders UCLA, Jewish students to draft plan for equal campus access in wake of protests |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-07-29/ucla-lawsuit-jewish-students-encampments |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913231404/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-07-29/ucla-lawsuit-jewish-students-encampments |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |access-date=12 August 2024 |website=The Los Angeles Times}}</ref> However, many Jewish students, including those affiliated with [[Jewish Voice for Peace]] (JVP),<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hall |first=Madeleine |date=2024-05-03 |title=JVP statement on the attack on the UCLA student encampment |url=https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2024/05/03/jvp-statement-on-the-attack-on-the-ucla-student-encampment/ |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=JVP |language=en-US}}</ref> were active within the encampment.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE7QLVara8M |title='UCLA would rather hurt students than consider divesting' {{!}} Al Jazeera NewsFeed |date=2024-05-03 |last=Al Jazeera English |access-date=2024-10-23 |via=YouTube |archive-date=October 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241004080911/https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=naolIRVeUbAgR997&v=JE7QLVara8M&feature=youtu.be |url-status=dead }}</ref>

From the establishment of the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on April 25 to the night of April 30, many individuals, including non-students, mobilized counter-protests in support of Israel, which aimed to dismantle the encampment via intimidation and physical aggression. Over $50,000 was raised via GoFundMe to assist these efforts, enabling counter-protestors to purchase speakers and a Jumbotron, on which they played videos showcasing the events of [[October 7 2023|October 7]] on a loop in Royce Quad.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mesa |first=Jesus |date=2024-04-30 |title=UCLA Campus Protest Screens Play Loop of Hamas Attacks |url=https://www.newsweek.com/ucla-campus-protests-hamas-israel-gaza-1895666 |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=Newsweek |language=en}}</ref>  During the nights, counter-protestors played an Israeli children's song known to be used to torture Palestinian prisoners,<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFywHfVjeSQ |title=Meni Mamtera – an Israeli "Children's Song" 😉 (kind of) |date=2023-10-22 |last=phillyguy6 |access-date=2024-11-08 |via=YouTube}}</ref> overlaid with recordings of a baby's cry, on repeat. Counter-protestors also placed or attempted to place biohazards in and around the encampment, including a backpack filled with mice.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hooper |first=Ibrahim |date=April 29, 2024 |title=CAIR-LA Demands UCLA Hate Crime Probe of Anti-Genocide Counter-Protesters, Demands University Protect Students at Solidarity Camp |url=https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-la-demands-ucla-hate-crime-probe-of-anti-genocide-counter-protesters-demands-university-protect-students-at-solidarity-camp/ |website=CAIR}}</ref> In the days immediately preceding April 30, counter-protestors made multiple attempts to break into the encampment.

On April 30, violent clashes were reported on the UCLA campus between pro-Palestinian protesters and groups of counter-demonstrators supporting Israel.<ref>{{cite news|title=Violence erupts at UCLA campus between rival Gaza protest groups|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/01/violence-erupts-ucla-university-campus-clashes-rival-gaza-protest-groups|work=The Guardian|date=1 May 2024|author-first1=Dani|author-last1=Anguiano|author-first2=Lois|author-last2=Beckett|author-first3=Diana|author-last3=Ramirez-Simon|access-date=July 31, 2024|archive-date=May 1, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240501101829/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/01/violence-erupts-ucla-university-campus-clashes-rival-gaza-protest-groups|url-status=live}}</ref> After engaging in sound/[[music torture]] for several hours, counter-protestors began physically assaulting the students inside the encampment by throwing fireworks and wooden planks at them, pepper- and bear-spraying them, and beating them with planks and pipes.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Ellis |first1=Blake |last2=Hicken |first2=Melanie |last3=Gordon |first3=Allison |last4=Abou-Ghazala |first4=Yahya |last5=Steck |first5=Em |last6=Medina |first6=Daniel |last7=Lah |first7=Kyung |last8=Rappard |first8=Anna-Maja |date=2024-05-16 |title=Unmasking counterprotesters who attacked UCLA's pro-Palestine encampment |url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/us/ucla-student-protests-counterprotesters-invs/index.html |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref> Police were called shortly after the attack began, but refused to intervene until hours after the first firework went off, telling multiple 911 callers: "You can't continue calling unless you have an emergency."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hamilton |first=Catherine |title='I thought I was going to die': UCLA encampment protesters recall April 30 attack |url=https://dailybruin.com/2024/05/07/i-thought-i-was-going-to-die-ucla-encampment-protesters-recall-april-30-attack |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=Daily Bruin}}</ref> This attack continued for four more hours before [[California Highway Patrol|California state highway patrol officers]] arrived to disperse the crowd of counter-protestors at around 3:00 AM, making no arrests.

Over 20 students had to be hospitalized due to injuries inflicted by counter-protesters. Some of these injuries were severe, with a doctor from the [[Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center]] stating, "One patient had a heart injury from the severity of the hits they sustained to the chest, while another would require surgery because of the damage done to part of a bone in their hand."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Medics, physicians recall 'dystopian' violence of encampment attack and sweep |url=https://dailybruin.com/2024/05/14/medics-physicians-recall-dystopian-violence-of-encampment-attack-and-sweep |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=Daily Bruin|last1=Dai-Liu|first1=Anna}}</ref> Another student "was left with stitches on his forehead and 14 staples in the back of his head."<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Anguiano |first1=Dani |last2=Beckett |first2=Lois |last3=Ramirez-Simon |first3=Diana |date=2024-05-02 |title=UCLA chancellor condemns 'instigators' who attacked pro-Palestinian camp on campus |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/01/violence-erupts-ucla-university-campus-clashes-rival-gaza-protest-groups |access-date=2024-11-08 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> The next day, UC administration sent campus administrator [[Darnell Hunt]] into the encampment to attempt negotiations, but refused to concede to any of the protestors' demands—including a demand for amnesty for students involved in the encampment—and no settlement was reached between campus administration and the encampment's leadership. On the night of May 1, police swept the Palestine Solidarity Encampment and arrested more than 200 pro-Palestinian student protestors.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-05-02 |title=UCLA struggles to recover after 200 arrested, pro-Palestinian camp torn down |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-01/la-me-ucla-camp-police |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> The UCLA chapter of Students For Justice in Palestine claimed five students were shot in the head with rubber bullets during the sweep, but the LAPD denied that rubber bullets were used.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Sheets |first1=Connor |last2=Winton |first2=Richard |last3=Armond |first3=Jason |last4=Nazzal |first4=Safi |last5=Mejia |first5=Brittny |date=2024-05-03 |title=Police report no serious injuries. But scenes from inside UCLA camp, protesters tell a different story |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-03/injuries-during-clearing-of-ucla-encampment |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> Contemporaneous media reports indicate that rubber bullets were used by the LAPD, but the precise number of individuals impacted by these munitions was not clear,<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3perFUMnB-I |title=UCLA protests: Riot police fire rubber bullets at protesters during violent clashes |date=2024-05-02 |last=Sky News |access-date=2025-02-22 |via=YouTube}}</ref> though some claims of injury arising from rubber bullets were based on older photographs or were otherwise misleading.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ckcE54NzmQ |title=Did police fire rubber bullets at UCLA pro-Palestinian student protesters? • FRANCE 24 English |date=2024-05-08 |last=FRANCE 24 English |access-date=2025-02-22 |via=YouTube}}</ref> Several months later, two counter-protestors were arrested for their role in the April 30 attack.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gurvis |first=Jacob |date=22 October 2024 |title=Two pro-Israel activists arrested for violent counterprotest at UCLA last spring |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/two-pro-israel-activists-arrested-for-violent-counterprotest-at-ucla-last-spring/ |access-date=22 October 2024 |website=Times of Israel}}</ref> LA County District Attorney [[George Gascón]] declined to charge other individuals identified as attackers against the encampment and individuals inside the encampment.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harter |first=Clara |date=2024-06-29 |title=DA Declines to File Charges Against Alleged UCLA Attacker Edan On |url=https://beverlyhillscourier.com/2024/06/29/da-declines-to-file-charges-against-alleged-ucla-attacker-edan-on/ |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=Beverly Hills Courier |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Viel |first=Jasmine |date=2024-06-21 |title=DA declines to file charges for man arrested after attack at pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA – CBS Los Angeles |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/da-declines-to-file-charges-for-man-arrested-after-attack-at-pro-palestinian-encampment-at-ucla/ |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Team |first=FOX 11 Digital |date=2024-06-21 |title=High school student arrested for alleged attack at UCLA encampment won't face felony charges |url=https://www.foxla.com/news/ucla-encampment-protest-high-school-student-wont-face-felony-charges |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=FOX 11 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Solis |first=Nathan |date=2024-06-21 |title=Man arrested in attack on UCLA pro-Palestinian protesters won't face felony charges |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-21/man-arrested-in-attack-on-ucla-pro-palestinian-protesters-wont-face-felony-charges |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref>

In June 2024, three Jewish students filed a lawsuit against UCLA, alleging "that the university played a role in preventing them from accessing the campus freely during protests, when they were blocked from entering the pro-Palestinian encampment erected by protesters."<ref name="Judge Orders UCLA to Develop Plan to Protect Jewish Students">{{cite web |last1=Alonso |first1=Johanna |title=Judge Orders UCLA to Develop Plan to Protect Jewish Students |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2024/07/31/judge-orders-ucla-develop-plan-protect-jewish-students |website=Inside Higher Ed |access-date=12 August 2024 |archive-date=August 12, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812182908/https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2024/07/31/judge-orders-ucla-develop-plan-protect-jewish-students |url-status=live }}</ref> The students were represented by [[Becket Fund for Religious Liberty|Becket Law]]. In July 2024, United States District Judge [[Mark C. Scarsi]] ordered that UCLA must "create a plan to ensure Jewish students have equal access to campus"<ref name="Judge Orders UCLA to Develop Plan to Protect Jewish Students"/> as a result of the lawsuit. In July 2025, UCLA agreed to pay $6.13 million, including damages to the plaintiffs, to settle the lawsuit.<ref name="UCLA to pay $6M to settle discrimination complaints including campus 'Jew Exclusion Zone'">{{cite web |last1=Christenson |first1=Josh |title=UCLA to pay $6M to settle discrimination complaints including campus 'Jew Exclusion Zone' |url=https://nypost.com/2025/07/29/us-news/ucla-to-pay-6m-to-settle-discrimination-complaints-including-campus-jew-exclusion-zone/ |website=New York Post |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250730165458/https://nypost.com/2025/07/29/us-news/ucla-to-pay-6m-to-settle-discrimination-complaints-including-campus-jew-exclusion-zone/ |archive-date=July 30, 2025 |access-date=July 31, 2025}}</ref>

==Campus==
[[File:Royce Hall post rain.jpg|thumb|[[Royce Hall]], one of the original four buildings, inspired by [[Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio]] in [[Milan]], Italy]]

[[File:220px-UCLA Bruin.jpg|thumb|The Bruin statue, designed by Billy Fitzgerald, in Bruin Plaza<ref>{{Cite web |title=Billy Fitzgerald, The Bruin |url=http://www.publicartinla.com/UCLAArt/bruin_bear.html |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414230058/http://www.publicartinla.com/UCLAArt/bruin_bear.html |archive-date=April 14, 2012 |access-date=April 7, 2012}}</ref>]]

The new UCLA campus in 1929 had four buildings: [[Royce Hall]] and Haines Hall on the north, and [[Powell Library]] and Kinsey Hall (now called Renee And [[David Kaplan (philosopher)|David Kaplan]] Hall) on the south. The [[Janss Investment Company|Janss]] Steps were the original 87-step entrance to the university that lead to the quad of these four buildings. Today, the campus includes 163 buildings across 419&nbsp;acres (1.7&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) in the western part of [[Los Angeles]], north of the Westwood shopping district and just south of [[Sunset Boulevard]]. In terms of acreage, it is the second-smallest of the ten UC campuses.<ref name="Campus Facts" /> The [[Channel Islands (California)|Channel Islands]] are visible from the UCLA campus.

===Architecture===
[[File:Royce Hall, vaulted arches, exterior, UCLA.jpg|left|thumb|Vaulted arches of Royce Hall]]
The first buildings were designed by the local firm [[Allison & Allison]]. The [[Romanesque Revival architecture|Romanesque Revival]] style of these first four structures remained the predominant building style until the 1950s, when architect [[Welton Becket]] was hired to supervise the expansion of the campus over the next two decades. [[Romanesque Revival architecture|Romanesque Revival]] was chosen as an alternative to [[Collegiate Gothic]] to parallel the climate of [[Southern California]] to the warm, sunny weather of the Southern Mediterranean.

Becket greatly streamlined its general appearance, adding several rows of [[Minimalism|minimalist]], slab–shaped brick buildings to the southern half, the largest of these being the [[UCLA Medical Center]].<ref>{{Cite web |year=2007 |title=Welton Becket and Associates |url=http://www.emporis.com/en/cd/cm/?id=weltonbecketandassociates-losangeles-ca-usa |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070314020937/http://www.emporis.com/en/cd/cm/?id=weltonbecketandassociates-losangeles-ca-usa |archive-date=March 14, 2007 |access-date=May 29, 2007 |website=Emporis Buildings}}</ref> Architects such as [[A. Quincy Jones]], [[William Pereira]], and [[Paul Williams (architect)|Paul Williams]] designed many subsequent structures on the campus during the mid-20th century. More recent additions include buildings designed by architects [[I.M. Pei]], [[Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates]], [[Richard Meier]], [[Cesar Pelli]], and [[Rafael Vinoly]]. To accommodate UCLA's rapidly growing student population, multiple construction and renovation projects are in progress, including expansions of the life sciences and engineering research complexes. This continuous construction gives UCLA the nickname "Under Construction Like Always".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lee, Cynthia |date=October 12, 2004 |title=A 'sense of place' from the old and new |url=http://www.today.ucla.edu/2004/041012closeup_senseofplace.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070128014442/http://www.today.ucla.edu/2004/041012closeup_senseofplace.html |archive-date=January 28, 2007 |access-date=May 29, 2007 |website=UCLA Today}}</ref>

One notable building on campus is named after African-American alumnus [[Ralph Bunche]], who received the 1950 [[Nobel Peace Prize]] for negotiating an armistice agreement between the Jews and Arabs in Israel. The entrance of [[Bunche Hall]] features a bust of him overlooking the [[Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden]]. He was the first individual of non-European background and the first UCLA alumnus to be honored with the Prize.

The [[Hannah Carter Japanese Garden]] is located a mile north of campus, in the community of [[Bel Air, Los Angeles|Bel Air]]. The garden was designed by landscape architect [[Nagao Sakurai]] of Tokyo and garden designer [[Kazuo Nakamura]] of Kyoto in 1959. The garden was donated to UCLA by former UC regent and UCLA alumnus [[Edward W. Carter]] and his wife Hannah Carter in 1964 with the stipulation that it remains open to the public.<ref name="Coleman 2016">{{Cite news |last=Coleman |first=Laura |date=June 3, 2016 |title=UCLA Accepts $12.5 Million Offer For Hannah Carter Japanese Garden |work=Beverly Hills Courier |url=https://bhcourier.com/2016/06/03/ucla-accepts-12-5-million-offer-for-hannah-carter-japanese-garden/ |access-date=December 14, 2019 |archive-date=August 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807124954/https://bhcourier.com/2016/06/03/ucla-accepts-12-5-million-offer-for-hannah-carter-japanese-garden/ |url-status=live }}</ref> After the garden was damaged by heavy rains in 1968, UCLA Professor of Art and Campus Architect [[Koichi Kawana]] took on the task of its reconstruction.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ethel Guiberson / Hannah Carter Japanese Garden {{!}} Los Angeles Conservancy |url=https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/ethel-guiberson-hannah-carter-japanese-garden |access-date=2023-03-08 |website=www.laconservancy.org |archive-date=March 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230308212027/https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/ethel-guiberson-hannah-carter-japanese-garden |url-status=live }}</ref> The property was sold in 2016 and public access is no longer required.<ref name="Coleman 2016" />

===Filming===
[[File:Legally Blonde filming location at Kerckhoff Hall at UCLA.jpg|thumb|right|The front lawn of UCLA's Kerckhoff Hall, as seen during the orientation scene in ''[[Legally Blonde]]''.]]
UCLA has attracted filmmakers for decades with its proximity to [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]]. It was used to represent fictional Windsor College in ''[[Scream 2]]'' (1997).<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120082/ |title=Scream 2 – Commentary by Wes Craven, Patrick Lussier & Marianne Maddalena |date=December 12, 1997 |last=Wes Craven (Director) |publisher=Dimension Films |place=United States |access-date=July 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803162158/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120082/ |archive-date=August 3, 2018 |url-status=live |medium=DVD}}</ref> In response to frequent requests for filming at the campus, UCLA has instated a policy to regulate filming and professional photography.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Morabito, Sam |date=January 23, 2004 |title=UCLA Policy 863: Filming and Photography on Campus |url=http://www.adminvc.ucla.edu/appm/public/app_0863_0.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901090414/http://www.adminvc.ucla.edu/appm/public/app_0863_0.html |archive-date=September 1, 2006 |access-date=May 21, 2007 |website=UCLA Administrative Policies & Procedures Manual}}</ref>
"UCLA is located in Los Angeles, the same place as the American motion picture industry", said UCLA visiting professor of film and television Jonathan Kuntz.<ref>{{Cite web |year=2007 |title=Jonathan Kuntz – Visiting Associate Professor |url=http://www.tft.ucla.edu/faculty/facftv/index.cfm?action=showbio&alias=jkuntz&pagetype=blank |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070708001454/http://www.tft.ucla.edu/faculty/facftv/index.cfm?action=showbio&alias=jkuntz&pagetype=blank |archive-date=July 8, 2007 |access-date=May 21, 2007 |website=UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television}}</ref> "So we're convenient for (almost) all of the movie companies, TV production companies, commercial companies and so on. We're right where the action is."

==Academics==
===College and schools===
College and schools of the university – with the year of their founding – include:

====Undergraduate====
* [[UCLA College of Letters and Science|College of Letters and Science]] (1919)
* [[UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture|School of the Arts and Architecture]] (1939)
* [[UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies|School of Education & Information Studies]] (SEIS) (1881)
* [[UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science|Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science]] (HSSEAS) (1945)
* [[UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music|Herb Alpert School of Music]] (2007)
* [[UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television|School of Theater, Film and Television]] (1947)
* [[UCLA School of Nursing|Joe C. Wen School of Nursing]] (1949)
* [[Luskin School of Public Affairs]] (1994)

====Graduate====
* [[UCLA School of Education and Information Studies|School of Education & Information Studies]] (SEIS) (1881)
* [[UCLA School of Law|School of Law]] (1949)
* [[UCLA Anderson School of Management|Anderson School of Management]] (1935)
* [[UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs|Luskin School of Public Affairs]] (1994)
* [[David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA|David Geffen School of Medicine]] (1951)
* [[UCLA School of Dentistry|School of Dentistry]] (1964)
* [[UCLA Fielding School of Public Health|Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health]] (1961)

===Healthcare===
[[File:Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center June 2012 001.jpg|thumb|Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, near the main entrance to the campus.]]
The [[David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA|David Geffen School of Medicine]], [[UCLA School of Nursing|Joe C. Wen School of Nursing]], [[UCLA School of Dentistry|School of Dentistry]] and [[UCLA School of Public Health|Fielding School of Public Health]] constitute the professional schools of health science. The UCLA Health System operates the [[Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center]], a hospital in [[Santa Monica, California|Santa Monica]] and twelve primary care clinics throughout [[Los Angeles County]]. In addition, the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine uses two Los Angeles County public hospitals as teaching hospitals—[[Harbor–UCLA Medical Center]] and [[Olive View–UCLA Medical Center]]—as well as the largest private nonprofit hospital on the west coast, [[Cedars-Sinai Medical Center]]. The Greater Los Angeles VA Medical Center is also a major teaching and training site for the university.

The UCLA Medical Center made history in 1981 when Assistant Professor [[Michael S. Gottlieb|Michael Gottlieb]] first diagnosed [[AIDS]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fee |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Brown |first2=Theodore M. |title=Michael S. Gottlieb and the Identification of AIDS |journal=American Journal of Public Health |date=June 2006 |volume=96 |issue=6 |pages=982–983 |doi=10.2105/AJPH.2006.088435}}</ref> UCLA medical researchers also pioneered the use of [[positron emission tomography|positron emission tomography (PET)]] scanning to study brain function.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Jones |first1=T |last2=Townsend |first2=D |title=History and future technical innovation in positron emission tomography. |journal=Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.) |date=January 2017 |volume=4 |issue=1 |article-number=011013 |doi=10.1117/1.JMI.4.1.011013 |pmid=28401173}}</ref> Professor of Pharmacology [[Louis Ignarro]] was one of the recipients of the 1998 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] for discovering the signaling cascade of [[nitric oxide]], one of the most important molecules in cardiopulmonary physiology.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1998 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1998/ignarro/facts/ |website=NobelPrize.org}}</ref> The ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' Best Hospitals ranking for 2021 ranks UCLA Medical Center 3rd in the United States and 1st in the West.<ref>{{Cite web |title=UCLA Medical Center |url=https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/ca/ucla-medical-center-6931755 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190731045545/https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/ca/ucla-medical-center-6931755 |archive-date=July 31, 2019 |access-date=August 1, 2019}}</ref> UCLA Medical Center was ranked within the top 20 in the United States for 15 out of 16 medical specialty areas examined.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harder |first=Ben |title=Best Hospitals 2015–16: an Overview |url=http://health.usnews.com/health-news/best-hospitals/articles/2015/07/21/best-hospitals-2015-16-an-overview |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125030333/http://health.usnews.com/health-news/best-hospitals/articles/2015/07/21/best-hospitals-2015-16-an-overview |archive-date=November 25, 2015 |access-date=December 28, 2015 |website=U.S. News & World Report}}</ref>

===Research===
UCLA is [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|classified]] among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and had $1.72 billion in research expenditures in 2024, ranking it 7th nationally.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Carnegie Classifications Institution Lookup |url=https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/institution/university-of-california-los-angeles/ |access-date=May 2, 2025 |website=carnegieclassifications.iu.edu |publisher=Center for Postsecondary Education}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Rankings by total R&D expenditures |url=https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=rankingBySource&ds=herd |access-date=May 2, 2025 |website=ncsesdata.nsf.gov |publisher=[[National Science Foundation]]}}</ref>

===Rankings===
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| Business || 18
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| Part-time MBA || 5
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| Education || 5
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| Engineering || 13
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| Law || 12
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| Medical: Research || Tier 1
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| Medical: Primary Care || Tier 2
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| Nursing: Master's || 9
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| Biological Sciences || 17
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| Biostatistics || 9
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| Chemistry || 16
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| Clinical Psychology || 1
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| Computer Science || 16
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| Earth Sciences || 14
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| Economics || 11
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| English || 8
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| Fine Arts || 1
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| Library and Information Studies || 13
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| Mathematics || 7
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| Physics || 17
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| Political Science || 11
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| Psychology || 6
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| Public Affairs || 16
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| Public Health || 8
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| Social Work || 8
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| Sociology || 6
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| Statistics || 19
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! colspan=4 style="background:#2774AE; color:#FFFFFF; {{box-shadow border|a|#FFD100|2px}}" |Global Subject Rankings<ref>{{Cite web |title=University of California—Los Angeles – U.S. News Best Global University Rankings |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/university-of-california-los-angeles-110662 |access-date=September 10, 2024 |magazine=U.S. News & World Report}}</ref>
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| Oncology || 5
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| Psychiatry/Psychology || 12
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| Clinical Medicine || 14
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| Neuroscience & Behavior || 14
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| Mathematics || 19
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| Arts & Humanities || 12
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| Optics || 19
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| Artificial Intelligence || 101
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| Materials Science || 13
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| Geosciences || 18
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| Social Sciences & Public Health || 23
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| Molecular Biology & Genetics || 12
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| Surgery || 46
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| Gastroenterology & Hepatology || 48
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| Infectious Diseases || 49
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| Biology & Biochemistry || 11
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| Chemistry || 29
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| Microbiology || 56
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| Condensed Matter Physics || 40
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| Computer Science || 53
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| Physics || 30
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| Environment/Ecology || 28
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| Immunology || 40
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| Economics & Business || 38
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| Space Science || 40
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| Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems || 48
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| Pharmacology & Toxicology || 50
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| Plant & Animal Science || 131
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| Engineering || 69
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| Energy & Fuels || 196
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| Electrical & Electronic Engineering || 152

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====National====
The 2026 ''U.S. News & World Report'' Best Colleges report ranked UCLA second among public universities and 17th among national universities.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Top Public Universities |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public |access-date=October 3, 2025|website=U.S. News & World Report |publisher=U.S. News & World Report LP. |archive-date=February 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223062939/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[The Washington Monthly]]'' ranked UCLA 20th among national universities in 2024, with criteria based on research, community service, and social mobility. The ''Money Magazine'' Best Colleges ranking for 2015 ranked UCLA 26th in the United States, based on educational quality, affordability and alumni earnings.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Money's Best Colleges |url=https://money.com/best-colleges/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150730183227/https://best-colleges.time.com/money/full-ranking#/list |archive-date=July 30, 2015 |access-date=July 25, 2015 |website=Money |publisher=Time Inc.}}</ref> In 2014, ''The Daily Beast''{{'}}s Best Colleges report ranked UCLA 10th in the country.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Zadrozny |first=Brandy|author-link=Brandy Zadrozny |date=November 6, 2014 |title=College Rankings 2014 |work=The Daily Beast |publisher=The Daily Beast Company LLC |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/06/the-daily-beast-s-down-and-dirty-guide-to-the-best-colleges-2014.html |url-status=live |access-date=November 30, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205121128/http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/06/the-daily-beast-s-down-and-dirty-guide-to-the-best-colleges-2014.html |archive-date=December 5, 2014}}</ref> The ''[[Kiplinger]]'' Best College Values report for 2015 ranked UCLA 6th for value among American public universities.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kiplinger's Best College Values |url=http://www.kiplinger.com/tool/college/T014-S001-kiplinger-s-best-values-in-public-colleges/index.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161218160250/http://www.kiplinger.com/tool/college/T014-S001-kiplinger-s-best-values-in-public-colleges/index.php |archive-date=December 18, 2016 |access-date=January 3, 2016 |website=Kiplinger |publisher=The Kiplinger Washington Editors}}</ref> ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' and ''[[Times Higher Education]]'' ranked UCLA 26th among national universities in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 7, 2016 |title=US College Rankings: top universities in the USA |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/us-college-rankings-top-universities-usa |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170108100755/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/us-college-rankings-top-universities-usa |archive-date=January 8, 2017 |access-date=January 7, 2017 |website=Times Higher Education |publisher=TES Global Limited}}</ref> The 2013 ''Top American Research Universities'' report by the [[Center for Measuring University Performance]] ranks UCLA 11th in power, 12th in resources, faculty, and education, 14th in resources and education and 9th in education.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Top American Research Universities |url=http://mup.asu.edu/Top-American-Research-Universities-2013-Annual-Report-MUP-2015-02-13.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129174528/https://mup.asu.edu/Top-American-Research-Universities-2013-Annual-Report-MUP-2015-02-13.pdf |archive-date=January 29, 2016 |access-date=April 5, 2015 |website=The Center for Measuring University Performance }}</ref> The 2015 ''Princeton Review'' College Hopes & Worries Survey ranked UCLA as the No. 5 "Dream College" among students and the No. 10 "Dream College" among parents.<ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Toole |first=Kristen |title=The Princeton Review's 2015 "College Hopes & Worries Survey" Reports on 12,000 Students' & Parents' "Dream colleges" and Application Viewpoints |url=http://www.princetonreview.com/press/college-hopes-worries-press-release |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919064436/http://www.princetonreview.com/press/college-hopes-worries-press-release |archive-date=September 19, 2016 |access-date=May 25, 2015 |website=The Princeton Review |publisher=TPR Education IP Holdings, LLC}}</ref> The [[National Science Foundation]] ranked UCLA 6th among American universities for research and development expenditures in 2021 with $1.45 billion.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Universities Report Largest Growth in Federally Funded R&D Expenditures since FY 2011 {{!}} NSF – National Science Foundation |url=https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf23303 |access-date=2023-12-28 |website=ncses.nsf.gov |date=December 15, 2022 |archive-date=December 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228183324/https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf23303 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2017 ''[[The New York Times]]'' ranked UCLA 1st for economic upward-mobility among 65 "elite" colleges in the United States.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Economic diversity and student outcomes at the University of California, Los Angeles |work=The New York Times |date=January 18, 2017 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/university-of-california-los-angeles |url-status=live |access-date=November 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808222131/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/university-of-california-los-angeles |archive-date=August 8, 2018}}</ref>

====Global====

The ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'' for 2024–25 ranks UCLA 18th in the world for academics, No. 2 US Public University for academics, and 15th in the world for reputation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-reputation-rankings |access-date=May 2, 2025 |website=Times Higher Education |publisher=THE}}</ref> In 2020, it ranked 16th among the universities around the world by ''[[SCImago Institutions Rankings]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SCImago Institutions Rankings – Higher Education – All Regions and Countries – 2020 – Overall Rank |url=https://www.scimagoir.com/rankings.php?sector=Higher%20educ.&country=all |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422183813/https://www.scimagoir.com/rankings.php?sector=Higher%20educ.&country=all |archive-date=April 22, 2019 |access-date=June 11, 2019 |website=www.scimagoir.com}}</ref> UCLA was ranked 43rd in the ''QS World University Rankings'' in 2024 and 13th in the world (11th in North America) by the ''Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)'' in 2024. In 2017, the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) ranked the university 15th in the world based on quality of education, alumni employment, quality of faculty, publications, influence, citations, broad impact, and patents.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CWUR 2015 – World University Rankings |url=http://cwur.org/2015/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113023846/http://cwur.org/2015/ |archive-date=January 13, 2016 |access-date=July 25, 2015 |website=Center for World University Rankings }}</ref> The 2025 ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' Best Global University Rankings report ranked UCLA 11th in the world.<ref name="USNWR" /> The CWTS Leiden ranking of universities based on scientific impact for 2017 ranks UCLA 14th in the world.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CWTS Leiden Ranking 2015 |url=http://www.leidenranking.com/ranking/2017/list |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223071037/http://www.leidenranking.com/ranking/2017/list |archive-date=December 23, 2017 |access-date=June 20, 2015 |website=CWTS Leiden Ranking |publisher=Centre for Science and Technology Studies}}</ref> The University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) conducted by [[Middle East Technical University]] for 2016–2017 ranked UCLA 12th in the world based on the quantity, quality and impact of research articles and citations.<ref>{{Cite web |title=University Ranking by Academic Performance |url=http://www.urapcenter.org/2016/world.php?q=MS0yNTA= |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606090559/http://www.urapcenter.org/2016/world.php?q=MS0yNTA= |archive-date=June 6, 2017 |access-date=November 29, 2015 |website=University Ranking by Academic Performance |publisher=Middle East Technical University}}</ref> The [[Webometrics Ranking of World Universities]] for 2017 ranked UCLA 11th in the world based on the presence, impact, openness and excellence of its research publications.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ranking Web of Universities |url=http://www.webometrics.info/en/world |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808192911/http://www.webometrics.info/en/world |archive-date=August 8, 2017 |access-date=November 29, 2015 |website=Ranking Web of Universities |publisher=Spanish National Research Council}}</ref>

====Graduate school====
[[File:UCLA School of Law south entrance.jpg|thumb|South entrance to the School of Law.]]
[[File:UCLA Fielding School of Public Health - Main Entrance .jpg|thumb|Fielding School of Public Health.]]
[[File:Anderson School of Managemnt UCLA.jpg|thumb|Anderson School of Management.]]
{{As of|2021|March}}, the ''U.S. News & World Report'' Best Graduate Schools report ranked the [[UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies|Graduate School of Education and Information Studies]] (GSEIS) 3rd, the [[UCLA Anderson School of Management|Anderson School of Management]] 18th, the David Geffen School of Medicine tied for 12th for Primary Care and 21st for Research, the [[UCLA School of Law|School of Law]] 14th, the [[UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science|Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS)]] 16th, the [[UCLA Fielding School of Public Health|Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health]] 10th, and the Joe C. Wen School of Nursing 16th.<ref name="USNWR" /> The QS Global 200 MBA Rankings report for 2015 ranks the Anderson School of Management 9th among North American business schools.<ref>{{Cite web |title=QS Global 200 MBA Rankings 2014/15: North America |url=http://www.topmba.com/mba-rankings/region/us-canada/2015#sorting=rank+custom=478983+order=desc+search= |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112100552/http://www.topmba.com/mba-rankings/region/us-canada/2015#sorting=rank+custom=478983+order=desc+search= |archive-date=January 12, 2015 |access-date=January 11, 2015 |website=Top MBA |publisher=QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited}}</ref> The 2014 ''Economist'' ranking of Full-time MBA programs ranks the Anderson School of Management 13th in the world.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Full time MBA ranking |newspaper=The Economist |publisher=The Economist Newspaper Limited |url=http://www.economist.com/whichmba/full-time-mba-ranking |url-status=live |access-date=January 5, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013215823/http://www.economist.com/whichmba/full-time-mba-ranking |archive-date=October 13, 2012}}</ref> The 2014 ''Financial Times'' ranking of MBA programs ranks the Anderson School 26th in the world.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Global MBA Ranking 2014 |url=http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/global-mba-ranking-2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140128010440/http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/global-mba-ranking-2014 |archive-date=January 28, 2014 |access-date=January 5, 2015 |website=Financial Times |publisher=The Financial Times Ltd}}</ref> The 2014 ''Bloomberg Businessweek'' ranking of Full-time MBA programs ranks the Anderson School of Management 11th in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Full-Time MBA Programs |url=http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/rankings/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130916145214/http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/rankings |archive-date=September 16, 2013 |access-date=January 5, 2015 |website=Bloomberg Businessweek |publisher=Bloomberg L.P.}}</ref> The 2014 ''Business Insider'' ranking of the world's best business schools ranks the Anderson School of Management 20th in the world.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stanger |first=Melissa |date=August 4, 2014 |title=The World's 50 Best Business Schools |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/best-business-schools-mba-2014-7?op=1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150117203851/http://www.businessinsider.com/best-business-schools-mba-2014-7?op=1 |archive-date=January 17, 2015 |access-date=January 11, 2015 |website=Business Insider}}</ref> The 2014 Eduniversal Business Schools Ranking ranks the Anderson School of Management 15th in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |title=University and Business School Ranking in USA |url=http://www.eduniversal-ranking.com/business-school-university-ranking-in-usa.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630133616/http://www.eduniversal-ranking.com/business-school-university-ranking-in-usa.html |archive-date=June 30, 2015 |access-date=June 6, 2015 |website=Eduniversal Business Schools Ranking |publisher=Eduniversal}}</ref> In 2015, career website Vault ranked the [[UCLA Anderson School of Management|Anderson School of Management]] 16th among American business schools,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Best Business Schools |url=http://www.vault.com/school-rankings/best-business-schools/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180811200300/http://www.vault.com/school-rankings/best-business-schools/ |archive-date=August 11, 2018 |access-date=September 19, 2015 |website=Vault |publisher=Vault.com Inc.}}</ref> and the [[UCLA School of Law|School of Law]] 15th among American law schools.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Best Law Schools |url=http://www.vault.com/school-rankings/best-law-schools/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905053533/http://www.vault.com/school-rankings/best-law-schools/ |archive-date=September 5, 2015 |access-date=September 19, 2015 |website=Vault |publisher=Vault.com Inc.}}</ref> In 2015, financial community website QuantNet ranked the [[UCLA Anderson School of Management|Anderson School of Management]]'s Master of Financial Engineering program 12th among North American financial engineering programs.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2015 Rankings of Best Financial Engineering Programs |url=https://www.quantnet.com/mfe-programs-rankings/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160122210134/https://www.quantnet.com/mfe-programs-rankings/ |archive-date=January 22, 2016 |access-date=November 21, 2015 |website=QuantNet |publisher=QuantNet Inc}}</ref> The ''U.S. News & World Report'' Best Online Programs report for 2016 ranked the [[UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science|Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS)]] 1st among online graduate engineering programs.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Best Online Graduate Engineering Programs |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/engineering/rankings?int=a38e09 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160319100640/http://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/engineering/rankings?int=a38e09 |archive-date=March 19, 2016 |access-date=January 14, 2016 |website=U.S. News & World Report |publisher=U.S. News & World Report LP}}</ref>

====Departmental====
Departments ranked in the national top ten by the 2025 ''U.S. News & World Report'' Best Graduate Schools report are Clinical Psychology (1st), Fine Arts (1st), Education (5th), Psychology (6th), Math (7th), History (6th), Sociology (6th), English (8th), Public Health (8th), and Nursing: Master's (9th). Departments ranked in the global top 30 by the 2025 ''U.S. News & World Report'' Best Global Universities report are Arts and Humanities (12th), Biology and Biochemistry (11th), Chemistry (29th), Clinical Medicine (14th), Materials Science (13th), Mathematics (19th), Neuroscience and Behavior (14th), Psychiatry/Psychology (12th) and Social Sciences and Public Health (23rd).<ref>{{Cite web |title=University of California Los Angeles |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/university-of-california-los-angeles-110662 |access-date=May 2, 2025 |website=U.S. News & World Report |publisher=U.S. News & World Report LP}}</ref>

Departments ranked in the global top ten by the ''[[Academic Ranking of World Universities]]'' (ARWU) for 2015 are Mathematics (8th)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Academic Ranking of World Universities in Mathematics – 2015 |url=http://www.shanghairanking.com/SubjectMathematics2015.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150917014915/http://www.shanghairanking.com/SubjectMathematics2015.html |archive-date=September 17, 2015 |access-date=September 5, 2015 |website=Academic Ranking of World Universities}}</ref> and Computer Science (9th).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Academic Ranking of World Universities in Computer Science – 2015 |url=http://www.shanghairanking.com/SubjectCS2015.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150918194426/http://www.shanghairanking.com/SubjectCS2015.html |archive-date=September 18, 2015 |access-date=September 5, 2015 |website=Academic Ranking of World Universities}}</ref> Departments ranked in the global top ten by the ''QS World University Rankings'' for 2020 are English Language & Literature (9th),<ref>{{Cite web |title=QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020 – English Language & Literature |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2020/english-language-literature |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030141152/https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2020/english-language-literature |archive-date=October 30, 2020 |access-date=January 29, 2021 |website=QS Top Universities |publisher=QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited}}</ref> Linguistics (10th),<ref>{{Cite web |title=QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020 – Linguistics |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2020/linguistics |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201210001547/https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2020/linguistics |archive-date=December 10, 2020 |access-date=January 29, 2021 |website=QS Top Universities |publisher=QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited}}</ref> Modern Languages (7th),<ref>{{Cite web |title=QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020 – Modern Languages |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2020/modern-languages |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030053219/https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2020/modern-languages |archive-date=October 30, 2020 |access-date=January 29, 2021 |website=QS Top Universities |publisher=QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited}}</ref> Medicine (7th),<ref>{{Cite web |title=QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020 – Medicine |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2020/medicine |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101010725/https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2020/medicine |archive-date=November 1, 2020 |access-date=January 29, 2021 |website=QS Top Universities |publisher=QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited}}</ref> Psychology (6th),<ref>{{Cite web |title=QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020 – Psychology |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2020/psychology |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124212821/https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2020/psychology |archive-date=November 24, 2020 |access-date=January 29, 2021 |website=QS Top Universities |publisher=QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited}}</ref> Mathematics (9th),<ref>{{Cite web |title=QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020 – Mathematics |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2020/mathematics |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201219155331/https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2020/mathematics |archive-date=December 19, 2020 |access-date=January 29, 2021 |website=QS Top Universities |publisher=QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited}}</ref> Geography (7th),<ref>{{Cite web |title=QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025: Geography |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-subject-rankings/geography |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250726143958/https://www.topuniversities.com/university-subject-rankings/geography |archive-date=July 26, 2025 |access-date=October 23, 2025 |website=QS Top Universities |publisher=QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited}}</ref> Communications & Media Studies (13th),<ref>{{Cite web |title=QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020 – Communication & Media Studies |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2020/communication-media-studies |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124212930/https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2020/communication-media-studies |archive-date=November 24, 2020 |access-date=January 29, 2021 |website=QS Top Universities |publisher=QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited}}</ref> Education (11th)<ref>{{Cite web |title=QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020 – Education |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2020/education-training |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127143616/https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2020/education-training |archive-date=November 27, 2020 |access-date=January 29, 2021 |website=QS Top Universities |publisher=QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited}}</ref> and Sociology (7th).<ref>{{Cite web |title=QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020 – Sociology |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2020/sociology |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126184939/https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2020/sociology |archive-date=November 26, 2020 |access-date=January 29, 2021 |website=QS Top Universities |publisher=QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited}}</ref>

====Academic field====
Academic field rankings in the global top ten according to the ''[[Academic Ranking of World Universities]]'' (ARWU) for 2025 are Atmospheric Science (6th), Clinical Medicine (7th), Human Biological Sciences (9th), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (9th), Materials Science & Engineering (9th), Dentistry & Oral Sciences (10th).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Global Ranking of Academic Subjects |url=https://www.shanghairanking.com/institution/university-of-california-los-angeles |access-date=May 2, 2025 |website=Academic Ranking of World Universities}}</ref> Academic field rankings in the global top 20 according to the ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'' for 2024–25 include Psychology (11th), Education Studies (13th), Arts & Humanities (14th), Medical and Health (14th), Engineering (16th), Physical Sciences (17th), Computer Science (17th), Social Sciences (15th), and Business & Economics (20th).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-03-29 |title=University of California, Los Angeles |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/university-california-los-angeles |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}}</ref> Academic field rankings in the global top ten according to the ''[[QS World University Rankings]]'' for 2015 are Arts & Humanities (10th)<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 11, 2015 |title=QS World University Rankings by Faculty 2015 – Arts and Humanities |url=http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/faculty-rankings/arts-and-humanities/2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183837/http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/faculty-rankings/arts-and-humanities/2015 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |access-date=February 27, 2016 |website=QS Top Universities |publisher=QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited}}</ref> and Life Sciences and Medicine (10th).<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 11, 2015 |title=QS World University Rankings by Faculty 2015 – Life Sciences and Medicine |url=http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/faculty-rankings/life-sciences-and-medicine/2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303223554/http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/faculty-rankings/life-sciences-and-medicine/2015 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |access-date=February 27, 2016 |website=QS Top Universities |publisher=QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited}}</ref>

====Student body====
The [[Institute of International Education]] ranked UCLA the American university with the seventh-most international students in 2016 (behind [[NYU]], [[University of Southern California|USC]], [[Arizona State]], [[Columbia University]], [[The University of Illinois]], and [[Northeastern University]]).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Top 25 Institutions Hosting International Students, 2015/16. |url=http://www.iie.org/Research-and-Publications/Open-Doors/Data/International-Students/Leading-Institutions/2015-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161125185343/http://www.iie.org/Research-and-Publications/Open-Doors/Data/International-Students/Leading-Institutions/2015-16 |archive-date=November 25, 2016 |access-date=January 2, 2017 |website=Institute of International Education |publisher=Institute of International Education, Inc.}}</ref> In 2014, ''Business Insider'' ranked UCLA 5th in the world for the number of alumni working at [[Google]] (behind [[Stanford University|Stanford]], [[University of California, Berkeley|Berkeley]], [[Carnegie Mellon University|Carnegie Mellon]], and [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Baer |first=Drake |date=October 2, 2014 |title=The 20 Schools with the Most Alumni at Google |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/the-20-best-schools-for-getting-a-job-at-google-2014-10 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141130005820/http://www.businessinsider.com/the-20-best-schools-for-getting-a-job-at-google-2014-10 |archive-date=November 30, 2014 |access-date=November 29, 2014 |website=Business Insider}}</ref> In 2015, ''Business Insider'' ranked UCLA 10th among American universities with the most students hired by [[Silicon Valley]] companies.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Carson |first=Biz |title=The 20 universities that are most likely to land you a job in Silicon Valley |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-hiring-most-popular-universities-2015-7 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715235652/http://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-hiring-most-popular-universities-2015-7 |archive-date=July 15, 2015 |access-date=July 18, 2015 |website=Business Insider |publisher=Business Insider Inc.}}</ref> In 2015, research firm PitchBook ranked UCLA 9th in the world for venture capital raised by undergraduate alumni, and 11th in the world for producing the most MBA graduate alumni who are entrepreneurs backed by venture capital.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 24, 2015 |title=The Top Universities Producing VC-Backed Entrepreneurs |url=http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/09/the-top-universities-producing-vc-backed-entrepreneurs/ |access-date=September 26, 2015 |website=ValueWalk |archive-date=July 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210713080655/https://www.valuewalk.com/2015/09/the-top-universities-producing-vc-backed-entrepreneurs/ |url-status=live |first1=Sheeraz|last1=Raza}}</ref>

===Library system===
{{Main|University of California, Los Angeles Library}}

[[File:Powell Library, UCLA (10 December 2005).jpg|thumb|right|Powell Library, across the quad from Royce Hall.]]
UCLA's library system has over nine million books and 70,000 serials in over twelve libraries and eleven other archives, reading rooms, and research centers. It is the United States' 12th largest library in number of volumes.<ref>{{Cite web |year=2012 |title=The Nation's Largest Libraries: A Listing By Volumes Held |url=http://www.ala.org/ala/professionalresources/libfactsheets/alalibraryfactsheet22.cfm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619081432/http://ala.org/ala/professionalresources/libfactsheets/alalibraryfactsheet22.cfm |archive-date=June 19, 2010 |access-date=February 16, 2014 |website=American Library Association}}</ref> The first library, University Library (presently [[Powell Library]]), was founded in 1884. [[Lawrence Clark Powell|Lawrence Powell]] became librarian in 1944, and began a series of system overhauls and modifications, and in 1959, was named Dean of the School of Library Service.<ref>{{Cite web |year=2006 |title=A Tribute to Lawrence Clark Powell |url=http://www.library.ucla.edu/special/scweb/lcpintro.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051217020308/http://www.library.ucla.edu/special/scweb/lcpintro.htm |archive-date=December 17, 2005 |access-date=December 13, 2006 |website=UCLA Library}}</ref> More libraries were added as previous ones filled.

===Medical school admissions===

According to the [[Association of American Medical Colleges]] (AAMC), UCLA supplies the most undergraduate applicants to U.S. medical schools among all American universities. In 2015, UCLA supplied 961 medical school applicants, followed by [[University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]] with 819 and the [[University of Florida]] with 802.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Table A-2.1: Undergraduate Institutions Supplying 15 or More Black or African-American Applicants to U.S. Medical Schools, 2015–2016 |url=https://www.aamc.org/download/321446/data/factstablea2-1.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052300/https://www.aamc.org/download/321446/data/factstablea2-1.pdf |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |access-date=December 28, 2015 |website=Association of American Medical Colleges }}</ref> Among first-time medical school applicants who received their bachelor's degree from UCLA in 2014, 51% were admitted to at least one U.S. medical school.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Medical School Admissions: 2014 UCLA Bachelor's Degree Recipients |url=http://career.ucla.edu/Portals/14/Documents/PDF/MedStats/2014_Medical_School_Admissions_Statistics.pdf_042516.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181024051218/https://career.ucla.edu/Portals/14/Documents/PDF/MedStats/2014_Medical_School_Admissions_Statistics.pdf_042516.pdf |archive-date=October 24, 2018 |access-date=January 3, 2017 |website=UCLA Career Center |publisher=UCLA}}</ref>

==Admissions==

===Undergraduate===
{|  class="wikitable" style="float:right; font-size:85%; margin:10px; text-align:center; font-size:85%; margin:auto"
|+ Enrolled Fall Freshman Statistics
|+ ''Excluding deferred applications or other unique situations.''
|-
!
! 2024
! 2023<ref>{{Cite web |title=Freshman admit data {{!}} UC Admissions |url=https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-center/admissions-residency-and-ethnicity |access-date=2025-05-02 |website=admission.universityofcalifornia.edu }}</ref>
! 2022
! 2021
|- style="text-align:center;"
! Applicants
| 146,272 || 145,903 || 149,801 || 139,482
|- style="text-align:center;"
! Admits
| 13,114 || 12,736 || 12,844 || 15,028
|- style="text-align:center;"
! Admit rate
| 9.0% || 8.6% || 10.8% || 14.4%
|- style="text-align:center;"
! Enrolled
| 6,610 || 6,585 || 6,462 || 6,584
|- style="text-align:center;"
! Average GPA (weighted)
| 4.20–4.30 || 4.21–4.31 || 4.0 || 3.90
|- style="text-align:center;"
! SAT range
| N/A || N/A || N/A  || 1290–1510
|- style="text-align:center;"
! ACT range
| N/A || N/A || N/A || 29–34
|}

''U.S. News & World Report'' rates UCLA "Most Selective"<ref>{{Cite web |title=University of California—Los Angeles: College |url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/university-of-california--los-angeles-1315 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116070753/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/university-of-california--los-angeles-1315 |archive-date=January 16, 2013 |access-date=January 26, 2013 |website=U.S. News & World Report}}</ref> and The Princeton Review rates its admissions selectivity of 98 out of 99.<ref>{{Cite web |title=University of California—Los Angeles |url=https://www.princetonreview.com/schools/1023373/college/university-california--los-angeles |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170103002706/https://www.princetonreview.com/schools/1023373/college/university-california--los-angeles |archive-date=January 3, 2017 |access-date=January 2, 2017 |publisher=The Princeton Review}}</ref> 149,815 prospective freshmen applied for Fall 2021, the most of any four-year university in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Freshman Profile |url=https://admission.ucla.edu/apply/freshman/freshman-profile |access-date=January 12, 2023 |publisher=UCLA |archive-date=January 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230112203918/https://admission.ucla.edu/apply/freshman/freshman-profile |url-status=live }}</ref>

Admission rates vary according to the residency of applicants. For Fall 2019, California residents had an admission rate of 12.0%, while out-of-state U.S. residents had an admission rate of 16.4% and internationals had an admission rate of 8.4%.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Profile of Admitted Freshmen Fall 2019 |url=http://www.admission.ucla.edu/prospect/Adm_fr/Frosh_Prof19.htm |access-date=April 28, 2020 |publisher=UCLA Admissions |archive-date=April 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200428210708/http://www.admission.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_fr/Frosh_Prof19.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> UCLA's overall freshman admit rate for the Fall 2019 term was 12.3%.<ref name="Fall 2020 Common Data Set">{{Cite web |title=University of California Admissions 2021 |url=https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses-majors/ucla/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211102103628/https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses-majors/ucla/ |archive-date=November 2, 2021 |access-date=November 28, 2021 |publisher=University of California}}</ref>

As of 2020, the basis for selection at UCLA includes several academic and nonacademic factors. Those considered "very important" are all academic; they are rigor of secondary school record, academic [[GPA]], standardized test scores, and application essay(s). Those considered "important" are talent/ability, character/personal qualities, volunteer work, work experience, and extracurricular activities. Factors that are not considered at all include class rank, interviews, [[Alumnus|alumni]] relation, and racial/ethnic status.<ref name="Fall 2020 Common Data Set" /> UCLA is [[need-blind]] for domestic applicants.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.financialaid.ucla.edu/FAQ-and-Links/General-Application-Process|title=Frequently Asked Questions|publisher=University of California, Los Angeles|access-date=2021-01-17|archive-date=2021-01-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118070754/https://www.financialaid.ucla.edu/FAQ-and-Links/General-Application-Process|url-status=live}}</ref>

Enrolled freshman for Fall 2024 had a median unweighted UC GPA of 4.00, and a median weighted UC GPA of 4.60, calculated from grades received in their 2nd and 3rd years of high school.<ref>{{Cite web |title=First-Year Profile — Fall 2024 {{!}} UCLA Undergraduate Admission |url=https://admission.ucla.edu/apply/first-year/first-year-profile/2024 |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=admission.ucla.edu |language=en}}</ref>  Among the admitted freshman applicants for the Fall 2024 term, 50.4% chose to enroll at UCLA.<ref name="ad1">{{Cite web |title=Admissions {{!}} Academic Planning and Budget |url=https://apb.ucla.edu/campus-statistics/admissions |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=apb.ucla.edu}}</ref>

UCLA's freshman admission rate varies drastically across colleges. For Fall 2024, the College of Letters and Science had an admission rate of 10.9%, the [[UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science|Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science]] (HSSEAS) had an admission rate of 5.3%, the [[Herb Alpert School of Music]] had an admission rate of 19.9%, the [[UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture|School of the Arts and Architecture]] had an admission rate of 5.5%, the [[UCLA School of Nursing|Joe C. Wen School of Nursing]] had an admission rate of 0.95%, and the [[UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television|School of Theater, Film and Television]] had an admission rate of 3.7%.<ref name="ad1"/>

One of the major issues is the decreased admission of [[African Americans]] since the passage of [[California Proposition 209 (1996)|Proposition 209]] in 1996, prohibiting state governmental institutions from considering race, sex, or ethnicity, specifically in the areas of public employment, public contracting, and public education.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Leonhardt |first=David |date=September 30, 2007 |title=The New Affirmative Action |work=The New York Times Magazine |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/magazine/30affirmative-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=magazine |url-status=live |access-date=September 28, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417070124/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/magazine/30affirmative-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=magazine |archive-date=April 17, 2009}}</ref> UCLA responded by shifting to a holistic admissions process in Fall 2007,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Smallwood |first=Scott |date=September 29, 2006 |title=UCLA Adopts 'Holistic' Model in Admissions to Stem Decline in Minority Enrollment |work=The Chronicle of Higher Education |url=http://chronicle.com/news/article/1061/ucla-adopts-holistic-model-in-admissions-to-stem-decline-in-minority-enrollment |url-status=live |access-date=May 21, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930180511/http://chronicle.com/news/article/1061/ucla-adopts-holistic-model-in-admissions-to-stem-decline-in-minority-enrollment |archive-date=September 30, 2007}}</ref> which evaluates applicants based on their opportunities in high school, personal hardships, and unusual circumstances at home.

===Graduate===
[[File:Hughandhazeldarlinglawlibrary.jpg|thumb|left|Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library, UCLA School of Law.]]
For Fall 2024, the David Geffen School of Medicine admitted 3.29% of its 11,329 applicants, making it the 10th most selective U.S. medical school.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wood |first=Sarah |date=April 9, 2025 |title=20 Med Schools With the Lowest Acceptance Rates |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/the-short-list-grad-school/articles/medical-schools-with-the-lowest-acceptance-rates |access-date=May 2, 2025 |website=U.S. News & World Report}}</ref> The [[UCLA School of Law|School of Law]] had a median undergraduate GPA of 3.82 and median [[Law School Admission Test]] (LSAT) score of 170 for the enrolled class of 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fall 2024 Incoming Class Profile |url=http://www.law.ucla.edu/admissions/class-profile/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151031214843/http://www.law.ucla.edu/admissions/class-profile |archive-date=October 31, 2015 |access-date=November 7, 2015 |publisher=UCLA School of Law}}</ref> The Anderson School of Management had a middle-80% GPA range of 3.1–3.8 and an average [[Graduate Management Admission Test]] (GMAT) score of 714 for the enrolled MBA class of 2026.<ref>{{Cite web |title=MBA Class of 2026 Profile |url=https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/degrees/full-time-mba/admissions/class-profile |access-date=May 2, 2025 |website=UCLA Anderson School of Management |publisher=UCLA Anderson School of Management}}</ref>

The School of Dentistry had an average overall GPA of 3.87, an average science GPA of 3.84 and an average [[Dental Admissions Test]] (DAT) score of 23 for the enrolled class of 2028.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Admission Selection Process |url=https://dentistry.ucla.edu/academics-admissions/dds-program/admission-selection-process |access-date=May 2, 2025 |website=www.dentistry.ucla.edu}}</ref> The Graduate School of Nursing has an acceptance rate of 33% {{as of|2022|lc=y}}.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://grad.ucla.edu/requirements/?app=statistics&major=0597 |title=Program Profile Report – Nursing |access-date=June 30, 2022 |archive-date=June 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220630043755/https://grad.ucla.edu/requirements/?app=statistics&major=0597 |url-status=live}}</ref> For Fall 2020, the [[UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science|Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS)]] had a graduate acceptance rate of 27%.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Corpuz |first=Erkki |title=Report to the University-Wide Council on Engineering Education (UCEE) |url=https://grad.ucla.edu/graduate-program-statistics/admissions/?t=Annualsnapshot |access-date=June 30, 2022 |archive-date=July 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220729063535/https://grad.ucla.edu/graduate-program-statistics/admissions/?t=Annualsnapshot |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Economic impact==
The university has a significant impact in the Los Angeles economy. It is the fifth largest employer in the county (after Los Angeles County, the Los Angeles Unified School District, the federal government and the City of Los Angeles) and the seventh largest in the region.<ref>[http://www.laalmanac.com/employment/em21e.htm Largest Employers in Los Angeles County] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121029100740/http://www.laalmanac.com/employment/em21e.htm |date=October 29, 2012 }}. Compiled by the LA Almanac, Source: California Employment Development Department, ''[[The Los Angeles Business Journal]]'', and Almanac research</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=UCLA — A Smart Investment for the Greater Los Angeles Region ... and Beyond |url=http://www.ucla.edu/about/impact/economic-impact-2007/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081004225130/http://www.ucla.edu/about/impact/economic-impact-2007/ |archive-date=October 4, 2008 |access-date=September 11, 2011 |publisher=Ucla.edu }}</ref> UCLA consistently has the highest revenue of all the universities in University of California system.<ref>University of California Revenue and Expense Trends Fiscal Year 2019 Through 2023. https://reportingtransparency.universityofcalifornia.edu/documents/finreports/retrends/retrends_2023.pdf

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===Trademarks and licensing===
The UCLA trademark "is the exclusive property of the [[Regents of the University of California]]",<ref>{{Cite web |title=UCLA Trademark Use Guidelines |url=http://www.asucla.ucla.edu/licensing/trademarkuse.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204195006/http://www.asucla.ucla.edu/licensing/trademarkuse.asp |archive-date=February 4, 2012 |access-date=September 5, 2012 |publisher=Associated Students UCLA}}</ref> but it is managed, protected, and licensed through UCLA Trademarks and Licensing, a division of the Associated Students UCLA, the largest student employer on campus.<ref>{{Cite web |title=UCLA Licensing and Trademarks: About Us |url=http://www.asucla.ucla.edu/licensing/index.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120525104635/http://www.asucla.ucla.edu/licensing/index.asp |archive-date=May 25, 2012 |access-date=September 5, 2012 |publisher=Associated Students UCLA}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Welcome to UCLA Trademarks & Licensing |url=http://www.asucla.ucla.edu/licensing/index.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120525104635/http://www.asucla.ucla.edu/licensing/index.asp |archive-date=May 25, 2012 |access-date=September 5, 2012 |publisher=Associated Students UCLA}}</ref> As such, the [[ASUCLA]] also has a share in trademark profits.

Apparel, fashion accessories and other items with UCLA'S logo and insignea are popular in many parts of the world due to both the university's academic and athletic prestige, and its association with colorful images of Southern California life and culture. This demand for UCLA-branded merchandise has inspired the licensing of its trademark to UCLA brand stores throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Since 1980, 15 UCLA stores have opened in [[South Korea]], and 49 are currently open in China. The newest store recently opened in Kuwait;<ref>{{Cite web |title=UCLA Store List |url=http://www.uclastore.com.cn/StoreList.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220073734/http://www.uclastore.com.cn/StoreList.asp |archive-date=February 20, 2008 |access-date=December 26, 2006 |website=UCLAstore.com.cn |language=zh}}</ref> there are also stores in Mexico, [[Singapore]] and India.<ref name="Fernando 2005">{{Cite news |last=Fernando |first=Menaka |date=April 5, 2005 |title=UCLA name, L.A. lifestyle marketable overseas |work=Daily Bruin |publisher=UCLA |url=http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/article/2005/04/ucla-name-la-lifestyle-marketa |url-status=live |access-date=May 13, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614081732/http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/article/2005/04/ucla-name-la-lifestyle-marketa |archive-date=June 14, 2011}}</ref> UCLA earns about $400,000 in royalties each year through its international licensing program.<ref name="Fernando 2005" />

===Commerce on campus===
[[File:UCLA hoodie.jpg|thumb|right|A hoodie from the UCLA Store.]]
UCLA has various store locations around campus, with the main store in Ackerman Union. In addition, UCLA-themed products are sold at the gift shop of [[Fowler Museum at UCLA|Fowler Museum]] on campus. Due to licensing and trademarks, products with UCLA logos and insignia are usually higher priced than their unlicensed counterparts. These products are popular among visitors, who buy them as gifts and souvenirs. The UCLA store offers some products, such as notebooks and folders, in both licensed (logoed) and cheaper unlicensed (un-logoed) options, but for other products the latter option is often unavailable. Students employed part-time by ASUCLA at UCLA Stores and Restaurants receive discounts when they shop at UCLA Stores.

==Athletics==
{{Main|UCLA Bruins}}

[[File:UCLA marching band 2010.jpg|thumb|The Solid Gold Sound of the UCLA Bruin Marching Band.]]
The school's sports teams are called the [[UCLA Bruins|Bruins]], represented by the colors [[True Blue (color)|true blue]] and gold. The Bruins participate in [[NCAA Division I]] as part of the [[Big Ten Conference]]. Two notable sports facilities serve as home venues for UCLA sports. The Bruin men's [[American football|football]] team plays home games at the [[Rose Bowl (stadium)|Rose Bowl]] in [[Pasadena, California|Pasadena]]; the team won a national title in 1954. The [[basketball]] and [[volleyball]] teams, and the women's [[gymnastics]] team compete at [[Pauley Pavilion]] on campus. The school also sponsors [[Cross country running|cross country]], [[soccer]], women's [[rowing (sport)|rowing]], [[golf]], [[tennis]], [[water polo]], [[track and field]], and women's [[softball]].

The mascots are Joe and Josephine Bruin, and the [[fight songs]] are ''[[Sons of Westwood]]'' and ''[[Mighty Bruins]]''. The alma mater is ''[[Hail to the Hills of Westwood]]''. When [[Henry Russell Sanders|Henry "Red" Sanders]] came to UCLA to coach football in 1949, the uniforms were redesigned. Sanders added a gold loop on the shoulders—the UCLA Stripe. The navy blue was changed to a lighter shade of blue. Sanders figured that the baby blue would look better on the field and in film. He dubbed the uniform "Powder Keg Blue", a powder blue with an explosive kick. This would also differentiate UCLA from all other UC teams, whose official colors are blue and gold.

UCLA competes in all major Division I sports and has won 136 national championships, including 125 NCAA championships. Only Stanford University has more NCAA team championships, with 135.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stanford University Athletics |url=https://gostanford.com/sports/2017/5/22/home-of-champions.aspx |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212052921/https://gostanford.com/sports/2017/5/22/home-of-champions.aspx |archive-date=December 12, 2019 |access-date=December 23, 2019}}</ref> On April 21, 2018, UCLA's women's gymnastics team defeated Oklahoma Sooners to win its 7th NCAA National Championship as well as UCLA's 115th overall team title. Most recently, UCLA's [[women's soccer]] team defeated Florida State to win its first NCAA National Championship along with women's tennis who defeated North Carolina to win its second NCAA National title ever.<ref>{{Cite web |title=UCLA wins NCAA women's tennis championship |url=http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ucla-wins-ncaa-women-s-tennis-championship |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141231142154/http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ucla-wins-ncaa-women-s-tennis-championship |archive-date=December 31, 2014 |access-date=October 27, 2014 |publisher=UCLA Athletics}}</ref> UCLA's softball program is also outstanding.<ref name="UCLA Bruins 2008">{{Cite web |year=2008 |title=Bruins lead the nation with 107 NCAA team championships and 123 total national championships |url=http://uclabruins.cstv.com/genrel/ucla-100-champs.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516054520/http://uclabruins.cstv.com/genrel/ucla-100-champs.html |archive-date=May 16, 2008 |access-date=May 31, 2008 |website=UCLA Bruins }}</ref> Women's softball won their NCAA-leading 12th National Championship, on June 4, 2019. The women's water polo team is also dominant, with a record 7 NCAA championships. Notably, the team helped UCLA become the first school to win 100 NCAA championships overall when they won their fifth on May 13, 2007.

The men's water polo team won UCLA's 112th, 113th, 114th, 124th and 125th national championships, defeating USC in the championship game seven times: 1996, on December 7, 2014, on December 6, 2015, on December 3, 2017, 2020, on December 8, 2024, and on December 7, 2025. On October 9, 2016, the top-ranked men's water polo team broke the NCAA record for consecutive wins when they defeated UC Davis for their 52nd straight win. This toppled Stanford's previous record of 51 consecutive wins set in 1985–87. The men's water polo team has become a dominant sport on campus with a total of 13 national championships.

Among UCLA's 123 championship titles, some of the more notable victories are in [[UCLA Bruins men's basketball|men's basketball]]. Under legendary coach [[John Wooden]], UCLA men's basketball teams won 10 NCAA championships, including a [[NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship#Champions, runners-up and locations|record seven consecutive]], in 1964, 1965, 1967–1973, and 1975, and an 11th was added under then-coach Jim Harrick in 1995 (through 2008, the most consecutive by any other team is [[NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship#Champions, runners-up and locations|two]]).<ref name="UCLA Bruins 2008" /> From 1971 to 1974, UCLA men's basketball won an unprecedented 88 consecutive games.
UCLA has also shown dominance in [[NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship|men's volleyball]], with 21 national championships. The first 19 teams were led by former<ref>{{Cite web |last=Foster |first=Chris |date=May 10, 2011 |title=Al Scates to retire as UCLA volleyball coach after 2012 season |url=https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-xpm-2011-may-10-la-sp-0511-scates-ucla-volleyball-20110511-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121218110758/http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/10/sports/la-sp-0511-scates-ucla-volleyball-20110511 |archive-date=December 18, 2012 |access-date=December 8, 2012 |website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> coach [[Al Scates]].  UCLA is one of only six universities ([[Michigan Wolverines|Michigan]], [[Stanford Cardinal|Stanford]], [[Ohio State Buckeyes|Ohio State]], [[California Golden Bears|California]], and [[Florida Gators|Florida]] being the others) to have won national championships in all three major men's sports (baseball, basketball, and football).<ref>{{Cite web |title=– The Official Website of NCAA Championships |url=https://www.ncaa.com |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140915060401/http://www.ncaa.com/ |archive-date=September 15, 2014 |access-date=September 15, 2014 |website=NCAA.com}}</ref>

===USC rivalry===
{{Main|UCLA–USC rivalry}}

[[File:2008-1206-USC-UCLA-007-RB-redblue1.JPG|thumb|A UCLA-USC rivalry game.]]

UCLA shares a traditional sports rivalry with the [[University of Southern California]]. UCLA teams have won the second-most NCAA Division I-sanctioned team championships, while USC has the third-most.<ref>[http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/champs_records_book/Overall.pdf Championships Summary Through Jan. 1, 2022] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140320185655/http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/champs_records_book/Overall.pdf |date=March 20, 2014 }}. NCAA</ref><ref>[http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/champs_records_book/Men.pdf Men's Championships Summary Through Jan. 1, 2022] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411030006/http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/champs_records_book/Men.pdf |date=April 11, 2021 }}. NCAA</ref><ref>[http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/champs_records_book/Women.pdf Women's Championships Summary Through Jan. 1, 2022] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411025948/http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/champs_records_book/Women.pdf |date=April 11, 2021 }}. NCAA</ref> Only Stanford University, a fellow Pac-12 member also located in California, has more than either UCLA or USC. The football rivalry is distinctive for two of the strongest conference programs located in one city. In football, UCLA has one national champion team and 16 conference titles, compared to USC's 11 national championships and 37 conference championships. The two football teams compete for annual possession of the [[Victory Bell (UCLA–USC)|Victory Bell]], the trophy of the rivalry football game.

The schools share a rivalry in many other sports, and are each the best in the nation for many. UCLA has won 19 NCAA Championships in [[NCAA Men's National Collegiate Volleyball Championship|men's volleyball]], 11 in [[NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|men's basketball]], 12 in [[Women's College World Series|Softball]], and 7 in [[NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship|women's water polo]], the most of any school in those sports. USC has won 26 NCAA Championships in [[NCAA Men's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships|Men's Outdoor Track and Field]], 21 in [[NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championship|men's tennis]], and 12 in [[College World Series|baseball]], also the most of any school in each respective sport. The annual [[SoCal BMW Crosstown Cup]] compares the two schools based on their performance in 19 varsity sports; UCLA has won five times and USC has won nine times. This rivalry extends to the [[Olympic Games]], where UCLA athletes have won 250 medals over a span of 50 years while USC athletes have won 287 over 100 years.<ref>{{Cite web |year=2004 |title=UCLA's Olympic Medal Winners |url=http://uclabruins.cstv.com/ot/olympic-medalists.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070602035945/http://uclabruins.cstv.com/ot/olympic-medalists.html |archive-date=June 2, 2007 |access-date=May 22, 2007 |website=UCLA Bruins}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |year=2004 |title=USC Olympians: 1904–2004 |url=http://graphics.fansonly.com/photos/schools/usc/genrel/auto_pdf/uscolympians.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070615012438/http://graphics.fansonly.com/photos/schools/usc/genrel/auto_pdf/uscolympians.pdf |archive-date=June 15, 2007 |access-date=May 22, 2007 |website=Fans Only (CSTV)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=August 12, 2012 |title=USC Concludes Its Most Successful Olympics Ever – University of Southern California Official Athletic Site |url=http://www.usctrojans.com/genrel/081212aab.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930095327/http://www.usctrojans.com/genrel/081212aab.html |archive-date=September 30, 2012 |access-date=October 14, 2012 |publisher=Usctrojans.com}}</ref> UCLA and USC also compete in the We Run The City 5K, an annual charity race to raise donations for Special Olympics Southern California. The race is located on the campus of one of the schools and switches to the other campus each year. USC won the race in 2013 and 2015, while UCLA won the race in 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |title=We Run the City 5K/10K: History – Special Olympics Southern California |url=http://sosc.convio.net/site/TR?fr_id=1060&pg=informational&sid=1021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180209063035/http://sosc.convio.net/site/TR?fr_id=1060&pg=informational&sid=1021 |archive-date=February 9, 2018 |access-date=February 8, 2018 |website=sosc.convio.net}}</ref>

== Student life ==
{| class="wikitable floatright sortable collapsible"; text-align:right; font-size:80%;"
|+ style="font-size:90%" |Undergraduate demographics as of fall 2024
|-
! Race and ethnicity<ref>{{cite web|title=UC fall student enrollment at a glance|url=https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-center/fall-enrollment-glance|access-date=May 24, 2025}}</ref>
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total
|-
| [[Asian Americans|Asian]]
|align=right| {{bartable|34.4|%|2||background:purple}}
|-
| [[Non-Hispanic whites|White]]
|align=right| {{bartable|23.9|%|2||background:gray}}
|-
| [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic]]
|align=right| {{bartable|22.9|%|2||background:green}}
|-
| [[Foreign national]]
|align=right| {{bartable|7.7|%|2||background:orange}}
|-
| [[African Americans|Black]]
|align=right| {{bartable|6.8|%|2||background:mediumblue}}
|-
| Unknown
|align=right| {{bartable|3.2|%|2||background:brown}}
|-
| [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]]
|align=right| {{bartable|.8|%|2||background:brown}}
|-
| [[Native Hawaiian]]/[[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]]
|align=right| {{bartable|.4|%|2||background:tan}}
|-
! colspan="4" data-sort-type=number |[[Economic diversity]]<ref>{{cite web|title=College Scorecard: University of California-Los Angeles|url=https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?110662-University-of-California-Los-Angeles|publisher=[[United States Department of Education]]|access-date=May 8, 2022|archive-date=May 9, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509004354/https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?110662-University-of-California-Los-Angeles|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[American lower class|Low-income]]{{efn|The percentage of students who received an income-based federal [[Pell grant]] intended for low-income students.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|27|%|2||background:red}}
|-
| [[Affluence in the United States|Affluent]]{{efn|The percentage of students who are a part of the [[American middle class]] at the bare minimum.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|73|%|2||background:black}}
|}

The campus is located near prominent entertainment venues such as the [[Getty Center]], the [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]] (LACMA) and the [[Santa Monica Pier]]. UCLA offers classical [[orchestra]]s, [[intramural sports]], and over 1000 student organizations.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Clubs and Organizations |url=https://admission.ucla.edu/explore/clubs-organizations|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119202249/https://admission.ucla.edu/explore/clubs-organizations|url-status=live|archive-date=January 19, 2021}}</ref> UCLA is also home to 66 [[Fraternities and sororities in North America|fraternities and sororities]], which represent 13% of the undergraduate population.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dougherty |first=Kevin |title=Welcome to Fraternity & Sorority Life |url=http://www.greeklife.ucla.edu/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151105015453/http://www.greeklife.ucla.edu/ |archive-date=November 5, 2015 |access-date=November 14, 2015 |website=UCLA Fraternity & Sorority Relations |publisher=UCLA}}</ref> [[Phrateres]], a non-exclusive social-service club for women was founded here in 1924 by the Dean of Women, Helen Matthewson Laughlin. Students and staff participate in dinghy sailing, surfing, windsurfing, rowing, and kayaking at the UCLA Marina Aquatic Center in [[Marina del Rey]].

UCLA is home to a number of performing arts groups, including an improv comedy team called Rapid Fire. UCLA's first contemporary a cappella group, Awaken A Cappella, was founded in 1992. The all-male group, Bruin Harmony, has enjoyed a successful career since its inception in 2006, portraying a collegiate a cappella group in ''[[The Social Network]]'' (2010), while the ScatterTones finished in second-place in the [[International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella]] (ICCA) in 2012, 2013, and 2014, and third-place in 2017, 2019, and 2022. In 2020, The A Cappella Archive ranked the ScatterTones at #2 among all ICCA-competing groups.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The A Cappella Archive – Rankings & Records |url=https://sites.google.com/view/the-a-cappella-archive/varsity-vocals/rankings-records |access-date=October 7, 2020 |website=sites.google.com |language=en-US |archive-date=July 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210713080701/https://sites.google.com/view/the-a-cappella-archive/varsity-vocals/rankings-records |url-status=live}}</ref> Resonance, founded in 2012, was an ICCA finalist in 2021. Other a cappella groups include Signature, Random Voices, Medleys, YOUTHphonics, Deviant Voices, AweChords, Pitch Please, Da Verse, Naya Zaamana, Jewkbox, On That Note, Tinig Choral, and Cadenza.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://uclaacappellaguide.weebly.com |title=Welcome to the Ultimate UCLA A Cappella Guide |website=uclaacappellaguide.weebly.com |access-date=August 26, 2021 |archive-date=August 31, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831123330/https://uclaacappellaguide.weebly.com/ |url-status=live}}</ref> YOUTHphonics and Medleys are UCLA's only nonprofit service-oriented a cappella groups.<ref>{{Cite web |title=medleys a cappella |url=http://medleysacappella.com/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160430201544/http://medleysacappella.com/ |archive-date=April 30, 2016 |access-date=April 21, 2016 |publisher=Medleys a Cappella at UCLA}}</ref>

There are a variety of cultural organizations on campus, such as Nikkei Student Union (NSU), Japanese Student Association (JSA),<ref>[http://www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/jsa/ Ucla Jsa] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403055844/http://www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/jsa/ |date=April 3, 2013}}. Studentgroups.ucla.edu. Retrieved on July 14, 2013.</ref> Association of Chinese Americans (ACA), Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA), Chinese Music Ensemble (CME), Chinese Cultural Dance Club (CCDC), Taiwanese American Union (TAU), Taiwanese Student Association (TSA), Hong Kong Student Society (HKSS), Hanoolim Korean Cultural Awareness Group, Samahang Pilipino, Vietnamese Student Union (VSU), and Thai Smakom. Many of these organizations have an annual "culture night" consisting of drama and dance which raises awareness of culture and history to the campus and community.

Additionally, there are over twenty [[LGBT pride|LGBTQ]] organizations on campus, including the undergraduate student organizations Queer Alliance, BlaQue, Lavender Health Alliance, OutWrite Newsmagazine, Queer and Trans in STEM (qtSTEM), and Transgender UCLA Pride (TransUP) as well as the graduate student organizations Out@Anderson, OUTLaw, and Luskin PRIDE.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lgbtq.ucla.edu/undergraduate-organizations|title=Undergraduate Organizations &#124; LGBTQ Resource Center|website=lgbtq.ucla.edu|access-date=June 30, 2022|archive-date=June 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220619211142/https://lgbtq.ucla.edu/undergraduate-organizations|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lgbtq.ucla.edu/graduate-organizations|title=Graduate Organizations &#124; LGBTQ Resource Center|website=lgbtq.ucla.edu|access-date=June 30, 2022|archive-date=June 30, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220630050543/https://lgbtq.ucla.edu/graduate-organizations|url-status=live}}</ref> Notably, OutWrite, established under the name TenPercent in 1979, is the first college queer newsmagazine in the country.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apply.uclastudentmedia.com/publications/outwrite/|title=UCLA Student Media – UCLA's Unofficial Journalism Department|website=apply.uclastudentmedia.com|access-date=June 30, 2022|archive-date=December 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211230022859/https://apply.uclastudentmedia.com/publications/outwrite/|url-status=live}}</ref> The UCLA Center for LGBTQ+ Advocacy, Research & Health was founded in 2020. UCLA operates on a [[Academic term|quarter calendar]] with the exception of the [[UCLA School of Law]] and the [[UCLA School of Medicine]], which operate on a [[Academic term|semester calendar]].

===Traditions===
[[File:Spring Sing 2009.jpg|thumb|[[UCLA Spring Sing]] in 2009]]
UCLA's official charity is UniCamp, founded in 1934. It is a week-long summer camp for underserved children from the [[greater Los Angeles area]], with UCLA volunteer counselors. UniCamp runs for seven weeks throughout the summer at Camp River Glen in the San Bernardino National Forest. Because UniCamp is a non-profit organization, student volunteers from UCLA also fundraise money throughout the year to allow these children to attend summer camp.<ref>{{Cite web |title=UCLA Unicamp |url=http://www.unicamp.org/site/c.iiKQLaPOLrF/b.5052093/k.BE10/Home.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121127015722/http://www.unicamp.org/site/c.iiKQLaPOLrF/b.5052093/k.BE10/Home.htm |archive-date=November 27, 2012 |access-date=December 4, 2012}}</ref>

The Pediatric AIDS Coalition organizes the annual Dance Marathon in Pauley Pavilion, where thousands of students raise a minimum of $250 and dance for 26 hours to support the [[Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation]], Project Kindle, and the UCLA AIDS Institute. Dancers are not allowed to sit (except to use the restroom) during the marathon, literally taking a stand against pediatric AIDS, and symbolizing the suffering of affected children around the world. In 2015, Dance Marathon at UCLA raised $446,157.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dance Marathon students raise $446,157 for pediatric AIDS |url=http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/dance-marathon-students-raise-446-157-for-pediatric-aids |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150621081522/http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/dance-marathon-students-raise-446-157-for-pediatric-aids |archive-date=June 21, 2015 |access-date=June 20, 2015 |website=UCLA Newsroom |publisher=UCLA}}</ref>

During Finals Week, UCLA students participate in "Midnight Scream", where they yell as loudly as possible for a few minutes at midnight to release some stress from studying. The quarterly [[Underwear run|Undie Run]] takes place during the Wednesday evening of Finals Week, when students run through the campus in their underwear or in skimpy costumes.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staines, Xandi |date=June 13, 2005 |title=Undie Run Tradition Faces Growing Pains |url=http://www.dailybruin.com/articles/2005/6/13/undie-run-tradition-faces-grow/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120910135835/http://www.dailybruin.com/articles/2005/6/13/undie-run-tradition-faces-grow/ |archive-date=September 10, 2012 |access-date=June 13, 2007 |website=Daily Bruin}}</ref> With the increasing safety hazards and Police and Administration involvement, a student committee changed the route to a run through campus to Shapiro Fountain, which culminates with students dancing in the fountain.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rushovich, Colin |date=December 12, 2005 |title=Undie Run Safety at Issue |url=http://www.dailybruin.com/articles/2005/12/12/undie-run-safety-at-issue/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120910135841/http://www.dailybruin.com/articles/2005/12/12/undie-run-safety-at-issue/ |archive-date=September 10, 2012 |access-date=May 21, 2007 |website=Daily Bruin}}</ref> The Undie Run has spread to other American universities, including the [[University of Texas at Austin]], [[Arizona State University]], and [[Syracuse University]].{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

The Alumni Association sponsors several events, usually large extravaganzas involving huge amounts of coordination, such as the 70-year-old Spring Sing, organized by the Student Alumni Association (SAA). UCLA's oldest tradition, Spring Sing is an annual gala of student talent, which is held at either Pauley Pavilion or the outdoor [[Los Angeles Tennis Center]]. The committee bestows the George and Ira Gershwin Lifetime Achievement Award each year to a major contributor to the music industry. Past recipients have included [[Stevie Wonder]], [[Frank Sinatra]], [[Ella Fitzgerald]], [[James Taylor]], [[Ray Charles]], [[Natalie Cole]], [[Quincy Jones]],<ref>{{Cite web |year=2007 |title=Gershwin Award Winners |url=http://www.uclalumni.net/CalendarEvents/springsing/Gershwin/winners.cfm |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110817021611/http://www.uclalumni.net/calendarevents/springsing/Gershwin/winners.cfm |archive-date=August 17, 2011 |access-date=May 21, 2007 |website=Alumni Association}}</ref> [[Lionel Richie]], and in 2009, [[Julie Andrews]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 2, 2008 |title=Lional Richie accepts the Gershwin Award |url=http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/electronicplay.aspx?fid=24831&id=E0C5478 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927220036/http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/electronicplay.aspx?fid=24831&id=E0C5478 |archive-date=September 27, 2011 |access-date=September 11, 2011 |publisher=Newsroom.ucla.edu}}</ref> The Dinner for 12 Strangers is a gathering of students, alumni, administration and faculty to network around different interests.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Valentine, Jane |date=January 21, 2004 |title=Dinner with 12 strangers is a feast for friends |url=http://www.today.ucla.edu/2004/040121voices_mind.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901103028/http://www.today.ucla.edu/2004/040121voices_mind.html |archive-date=September 1, 2006 |access-date=May 21, 2007 |website=UCLA Today}}</ref> The "Beat 'SC Bonfire and Rally" occurs the week before the USC rivalry football game.{{wide image|JazzReggae Festival, panorama, Intramural Fields, UCLA (May 2010).jpg|220px|JazzReggae Festival 2010.|5 = right}}

The USAC Cultural Affairs Commission hosts the [[JazzReggae Festival @ UCLA|JazzReggae Festival]], a two-day concert on [[Memorial Day]] weekend that attracts more than 20,000 attendees. The JazzReggae Festival is the largest entirely student produced and run event of its kind on the West Coast.<ref>{{Cite web |title=JazzReggae Fest 2011 |url=http://jazzreggaefest.com/pages/about/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903011352/http://jazzreggaefest.com/pages/about/ |archive-date=September 3, 2011 |access-date=September 11, 2011 |publisher=Jazzreggaefest.com}}</ref>

Sigma Eta Pi and Bruin Entrepreneurs organize [[LA Hacks]], an annual hackathon where students from around the United States come to build technology products. LA Hacks established itself as the largest hackathon in the United States when over 1500 students participated on April 11–13, 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chang |first=Andrea |date=April 13, 2014 |title=LA Hacks Hackathon Draws Hordes of Young Developers to UCLA [Updated] |url=https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-la-hacks-hackathon-20140412,0,244975.story#axzz2zVuG2tc5 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140422123309/http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-la-hacks-hackathon-20140412,0,244975.story#axzz2zVuG2tc5 |archive-date=April 22, 2014 |access-date=April 22, 2014 |website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> LA Hacks also holds the record for the most funds raised via corporate sponsorships with $250,000 raised. Some of the tech world's most prominent people have given talks and judged projects at LA Hacks, including [[Evan Spiegel]] (Founder and CEO of [[Snapchat]]), [[Alexis Ohanian]] (co-founder of [[Reddit]]), [[Sam Altman]] (President of [[Y Combinator (company)|Y Combinator]]) and Chris De Wolfe (Founder of [[Myspace]]).

===Student government===
[[File:Kerckhoff Hall, UCLA (2007).jpg|thumb|upright|Kerckhoff Hall houses the student government and the ''[[Daily Bruin]]''.]]
{{main|ASUCLA}}

The Associated Students UCLA (ASUCLA) encompasses the student government and student-led enterprises at UCLA. ASUCLA has four major components: the Undergraduate Students Association, the Graduate Students Association, Student Media, and Services & Enterprises. However, in common practice, the term ASUCLA refers to the services and enterprises component. This includes the Student Store, Bookstore, Food Services, Student Union, etc. These commercial enterprises generate approximately $40 million in annual revenues.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Associated Students UCLA [95-1777979&#93; GuideStar Report |url=http://www2.guidestar.org/ReportNonProfit.aspx?ein=95-1777979&name=associated-students-ucla# |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006195002/http://www2.guidestar.org/ReportNonProfit.aspx?ein=95-1777979&name=associated-students-ucla |archive-date=October 6, 2011 |access-date=May 23, 2010 |publisher=.guidestar.org }}</ref> As a nonprofit corporation, the financial goal of ASUCLA is to provide quality services and programs for students. ASUCLA is governed by a student-majority Board of Directors. The Undergraduate Students Association and Graduate Students Association each appoint three members plus one alternative. In addition to the student members, there are representatives appointed by the administration, the academic senate, and the alumni association. The "services and enterprises" portion of ASUCLA is run by a professional executive director who oversees some 300 staff and 2,000 student employees.

The Graduate Students Association is the governing body for approximately 13,000 graduate and professional students at UCLA.<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 2, 2010 |title=UCLA Graduate Student Association |url=http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610183026/http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/ |archive-date=June 10, 2010 |access-date=May 23, 2010 |publisher=Gsa.asucla.ucla.edu}}</ref> The Undergraduate Students Association Council (USAC) is the governing body of the Undergraduate Students Association (USA) whose membership comprises every UCLA undergraduate student.<ref>{{Cite web |title=UCLA Undergraduate Students Association |url=https://www.usac.ucla.edu/about/usac.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720073752/http://www.usac.ucla.edu/about/usac.php |archive-date=July 20, 2011 |access-date=September 11, 2011 |publisher=UCLA }}</ref> {{as of|2015}}, the student body had two major political slates: Bruins United and Let's Act. In the Spring 2016 election, the two competing parties were Bruins United and Waves of Change—a smaller faction that broke off of Lets Act.

USAC's fifteen student officers<ref>{{Cite web |title=Officers |url=https://www.usac.ucla.edu/officers |website=USAC |access-date=August 23, 2024 |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913231405/https://www.usac.ucla.edu/officers |url-status=live }}</ref> and commissioners are elected by members of the Undergraduate Students Association at an annual election held during Spring Quarter. In addition to its fifteen elected members, USAC includes appointed representatives of the Administration, the Alumni, and the Faculty, as well as two ex-officio members, the ASUCLA Executive Director and a student Finance Committee Chairperson who is appointed by the USA President and approved by USAC. All members of USAC may participate fully in Council deliberations, but only the elected officers, minus the USAC President may vote. Along with the council, the student government also includes a seven-member Judicial Board, which similar to the Supreme Court, serves as the judicial branch of government and reviews actions of the council. These seven students are appointed by the student body president and confirmed by the council.

USAC's programs offers additional services to the campus and surrounding communities. For example, each year approximately 40,000 students, faculty and staff attend programs of the [[UCLA Campus Events Commission|Campus Events Commission]], including a low-cost film program, a speakers program which presents leading figures from a wide range of disciplines, and performances by dozens of entertainers. Two to three thousand UCLA undergraduates participate annually in the more than twenty voluntary outreach programs run by the Community Service Commission. A large corps of undergraduate volunteers also participate in programs run by the Student Welfare Commission, such as AIDS Awareness, Substance Abuse Awareness, [[Blood donation|Blood Drives]] and CPR/First Aid Training. The film program is part of the Bruin Film Society, which is also a registered organization to host advance [[Film screening|screenings]] of films during Oscars season.<ref>{{cite web|title=Awards Screenings|url=http://www.richiesolomon.com/screenings/|access-date=December 3, 2021|website=Richie Solomon|archive-date=December 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203012010/http://www.richiesolomon.com/screenings/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bruin Film Society|url=https://community.ucla.edu/studentorg/1735|access-date=December 3, 2021|website=community.ucla.edu|archive-date=December 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203012322/https://community.ucla.edu/studentorg/1735|url-status=live}}</ref> It hosts other events, like filmmaker panels, through its partnership with production and distribution company [[A24]].<ref>{{cite web|title=UCLA film society's partnership provides accessibility to industry professionals|url=https://dailybruin.com/2018/10/14/ucla-film-societys-partnership-provides-accessibility-to-industry-professionals/|access-date=December 3, 2021|website=Daily Bruin|archive-date=December 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203024556/https://dailybruin.com/2018/10/14/ucla-film-societys-partnership-provides-accessibility-to-industry-professionals|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Media publications===
UCLA Student Media is the home of UCLA's newspaper, magazines, and radio station.<ref>{{Cite web |title=UCLA Student Media |url=http://apply.uclastudentmedia.com/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130710222128/http://apply.uclastudentmedia.com/ |archive-date=July 10, 2013 |access-date=March 8, 2015 |website=Apply: UCLA Student Media}}</ref> Most student media publications are governed by the ASUCLA Communications Board. The ''[[Daily Bruin]]'' is UCLA's most prominent student publication. Founded in 1919 under the name ''Cub Californian'', it has since then developed into Los Angeles' third-most circulated newspaper. It has won dozens of national awards and is regularly commended for layout and content. In 2016, the paper won two [[National Pacemaker Awards]] – one for the best college newspaper in the country, and another for the best college media website in the country.<ref>{{Cite web |year=2016 |title=Daily Bruin wins awards for nation's best online, daily college newspaper |url=http://dailybruin.com/2016/10/22/daily-bruin-wins-awards-for-nations-best-online-daily-college-newspaper/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161024031954/http://dailybruin.com/2016/10/22/daily-bruin-wins-awards-for-nations-best-online-daily-college-newspaper/ |archive-date=October 24, 2016 |access-date=October 23, 2016 |website=Daily Bruin}}</ref> 
[[File:Daily Bruin Text Logo.png|thumb|The Daily Bruin began publication in 1919, the same year that UCLA was founded.]]

UCLA Student Media also publishes seven special-interest news magazines: ''Al-Talib'', ''Fem'', ''Ha'Am'', ''La Gente'', ''Nommo'', ''Pacific Ties'', and ''OutWrite'', a school yearbook, ''BruinLife'', and the student-run radio station, UCLA Radio. Student groups such as The Forum for Energy Economics and Development also publish yearly journals focused on energy technologies and industries. There is also a student-run satire newspaper, ''The Westwood Enabler''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Westwood Enabler |url=http://westwoodenabler.com/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610110158/http://westwoodenabler.com/ |archive-date=10 June 2023 |access-date=7 September 2023}}</ref> There are also numerous graduate student-run journals at UCLA, such as ''Carte Italiane'', ''Issues in Applied Linguistics'', and ''Mediascape''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Watkins, Mary |date=Spring 2011 |title=Publication Revolution |url=https://grad.ucla.edu/asis/library/gqspring11.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208050831/https://grad.ucla.edu/asis/library/gqspring11.pdf |archive-date=February 8, 2015 |access-date=October 21, 2014 |website=UCLA Graduate Quarterly}}</ref> Many of these publications are available through [[open access]]. The School of Law publishes the [[UCLA Law Review]] which is currently ranked seventh among American law schools.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Law Journals: Submissions and Ranking 2013 Combined Score |url=http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/index.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060307221833/http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/index.aspx |archive-date=March 7, 2006 |access-date=June 7, 2016 }}</ref>

===Housing===
{{Main|UCLA student housing}}

[[File:UCLA Carnesale Commons.jpg|left|thumb|Sproul Landing dorms above B-plate dining hall at Charles E Young and De Neve Drive.|alt=]]
UCLA provides housing to over 10,000 undergraduate and 2,900 graduate students.<ref>{{Cite web |title=UCLA Student Housing Master Plan 2007–2017 |url=http://www.housing.ucla.edu/SHMP/SHMP-2017-3.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707014407/http://www.housing.ucla.edu/SHMP/SHMP-2017-3.pdf |archive-date=July 7, 2010 |access-date=August 6, 2010}}</ref> Most undergraduate students are housed in 14 complexes on the western side of campus, referred to by students as "The Hill". Students can live in halls, plazas, suites, or university apartments, which vary in pricing and privacy. Housing plans also offer students access to dining facilities, which have been ranked by the ''[[Princeton Review]]'' as some of the best in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Best 371 Colleges: Quality of Life – Campus Food |url=http://www.princetonreview.com/schoollist.aspx?type=r&id=683&RDN=1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112051804/http://www.princetonreview.com/schoollist.aspx?type=r&id=683&RDN=1 |archive-date=January 12, 2015 |access-date=April 20, 2010}}</ref> Dining halls are located in Covel Commons, Rieber Hall, Carnesale Commons and De Neve Plaza. In winter 2012, a dining hall called The Feast at Rieber opened to students. The newest dining hall (as of Winter Quarter 2014) is Bruin Plate, located in the Carnesale Commons (commonly referred to as Sproul Plaza). Residential cafes include Bruin Cafe, Rendezvous, The Study at Hedrick, and Cafe 1919.<ref>{{Cite web |title=UCLA Housing |url=https://housing.ucla.edu/dining-services/facilities-services |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218152012/https://housing.ucla.edu/dining-services/facilities-services |archive-date=February 18, 2017 |access-date=February 17, 2017}}</ref> UCLA currently offers four years guaranteed housing to its incoming freshmen, and two years to incoming transfer students. There are four types of housing available for students: residential halls, deluxe residential halls, residential plazas, and residential suites. Available on the hill are study rooms, basketball courts, tennis courts, and Sunset Recreational Center which includes three swimming pools.

Graduate students are housed in one of five apartment complexes. Weyburn Terrace is located just southwest of the campus in Westwood Village. The other four are roughly five miles south of UCLA in Palms and Mar Vista. They too vary in pricing and privacy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Living in University Apartments |url=http://map.ais.ucla.edu/go/1002103 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100815101339/http://map.ais.ucla.edu/go/1002103 |archive-date=August 15, 2010 |access-date=August 6, 2010 }}</ref> Approximately 400 students live at the [[University Cooperative Housing Association]], located two blocks off campus.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rogers |first=K. |date=February 1, 2011 |title=UCLA's cooperative housing options offer more than chores as tenants form close social ties living and working together |url=http://dailybruin.com/2011/02/01/uclas_cooperative_housing_options_offer_more_than_chores_as_tenants_form_close_social_ties_living_an/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170710075250/http://dailybruin.com/2011/02/01/uclas_cooperative_housing_options_offer_more_than_chores_as_tenants_form_close_social_ties_living_an/ |archive-date=July 10, 2017 |access-date=July 11, 2017 |website=dailybruin}}</ref> Students who are involved in Greek life have the option to also live in Greek housing while at UCLA. Sorority houses are located east of campus on Hilgard Avenue, and fraternity houses are located west of campus throughout Westwood Village. A student usually lives with 50+ students in Greek housing.

===Hospitality===
Hospitality constituents of the university include departments not directly related to student life or administration. The Hospitality department manages the university's two on-campus hotels, the UCLA Guest House and the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center. The 61-room Guest House services those visiting the university for campus-related activities.<ref>{{Cite web |year=2007 |title=Guest House Hotel |url=http://map.ais.ucla.edu/portal/site/UCLA/menuitem.3f8e7342ad4ca217b66d4ab4f848344a/?vgnextoid=fd5af9f9bd19ff00VgnVCM1000008f8443a4RCRD |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070612011503/http://map.ais.ucla.edu/portal/site/UCLA/menuitem.3f8e7342ad4ca217b66d4ab4f848344a/?vgnextoid=fd5af9f9bd19ff00VgnVCM1000008f8443a4RCRD |archive-date=June 12, 2007 |access-date=May 21, 2007 |website=Official site }}</ref> The department also manages the UCLA Conference Center, a 40-acre (0.2&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) conference center in the [[San Bernardino Mountains]] near [[Lake Arrowhead, California|Lake Arrowhead]].<ref>{{Cite web |year=2007 |title=Conference Center at Lake Arrowhead |url=http://map.ais.ucla.edu/portal/site/UCLA/menuitem.3f8e7342ad4ca217b66d4ab4f848344a/?vgnextoid=ec175645ff212010VgnVCM1000008f8443a4RCRD |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070506172330/http://map.ais.ucla.edu/portal/site/UCLA/menuitem.3f8e7342ad4ca217b66d4ab4f848344a/?vgnextoid=ec175645ff212010VgnVCM1000008f8443a4RCRD |archive-date=May 6, 2007 |access-date=May 21, 2007 |website=Official site }}</ref> Hospitality also operates UCLA Catering,<ref>{{Cite web |year=2009 |title=UCLA Catering |url=http://map.ais.ucla.edu/go/campus-services/hospitality/catering |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720072921/http://map.ais.ucla.edu/go/campus-services/hospitality/catering |archive-date=July 20, 2011 |website=official site}}</ref> a vending operation, and a summer conference center located on the Westwood campus.<ref>{{Cite web |year=2007 |title=Conference Services |url=http://map.ais.ucla.edu/portal/site/UCLA/menuitem.3f8e7342ad4ca217b66d4ab4f848344a/?vgnextoid=143d396579b8ff00VgnVCM1000008f8443a4RCRD |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070425112915/http://map.ais.ucla.edu/portal/site/UCLA/menuitem.3f8e7342ad4ca217b66d4ab4f848344a/?vgnextoid=143d396579b8ff00VgnVCM1000008f8443a4RCRD |archive-date=April 25, 2007 |access-date=May 21, 2007 |website=Official site }}</ref>

===Chabad House===
The UCLA [[Chabad House]] is a community center for [[Jews|Jewish]] students operated by the [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jewish]] Chabad movement. Established in 1969, it was the first [[Chabad]] House at a university.<ref name="Katz 2010">The Visual Culture of Chabad, Maya Balakirsky Katz, Cambridge University Press, 2010, page 152.</ref><ref>The Rebbe's Army: Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch, Sue Fishkoff, Random House, 2009</ref> In 1980, three students died in a fire in the original building of the UCLA Chabad House. The present building was erected in their memory. The building, completed in 1984, was the first of many Chabad houses worldwide designed as architectural reproductions of the residence of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi [[Menachem Mendel Schneerson]] at [[770 Eastern Parkway]] in Brooklyn, New York.<ref name="Katz 2010" /> The Chabad House hosts the UCLA chapter of The [[Rohr Jewish Learning Institute]]'s Sinai Scholars Society.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Torok |first=Ryan |date=August 20, 2014 |title=Moving and shaking |agency=Jewish Journal |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/los_angeles/article/moving_and_shaking15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716093652/http://www.jewishjournal.com/los_angeles/article/moving_and_shaking15 |archive-date=July 16, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Sichel |first=Jared |date=October 24, 2013 |title=Sharing the next gen: How Chabad is changing Hillel — and reshaping campus life |agency=Jewish Journal |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/cover_story/article/sharing_the_next_gen_how_chabad_is_changing_hillel_and_reshaping_campus_lif |url-status=live |access-date=July 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716093655/http://www.jewishjournal.com/cover_story/article/sharing_the_next_gen_how_chabad_is_changing_hillel_and_reshaping_campus_lif |archive-date=July 16, 2015}}</ref>

===Healthy Campus Initiative===
In January 2013, Chancellor Gene Block launched the UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative (HCI), envisioned and supported by Jane and Terry Semel.<ref name="Daily Bruin">{{Cite web |title=UCLA selected to participate in nationwide Healthier Campus Initiative |url=http://dailybruin.com/2014/12/03/ucla-selected-to-participate-in-nationwide-healthier-campus-initiative/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119181949/http://dailybruin.com/2014/12/03/ucla-selected-to-participate-in-nationwide-healthier-campus-initiative/ |archive-date=November 19, 2016 |access-date=November 19, 2016 |website=Daily Bruin}}</ref> The Semel HCI prioritizes the health and wellness of UCLA students, staff, and faculty by "making the healthy choice the easy choice."<ref name="Daily Bruin" /> The goal of the initiative is to make UCLA the healthiest campus in the country, and to share best practices and research with other communities, locally and beyond.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Submission: Healthy Campus Initiative works to promote wellness of UCLA community |url=http://dailybruin.com/2015/10/20/submission-healthy-campus-initiative-works-to-promote-wellness-of-ucla-community/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119181945/http://dailybruin.com/2015/10/20/submission-healthy-campus-initiative-works-to-promote-wellness-of-ucla-community/ |archive-date=November 19, 2016 |access-date=November 18, 2016}}</ref> The initiative is a campuswide, multi-year effort that champions programs such as the tobacco-free policy,<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 22, 2013 |title=It's lights out as UCLA enacts tobacco ban on Earth Day |url=https://www.latimes.com/health/la-xpm-2013-apr-22-la-me-ucla-smoking-20130423-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119182323/http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/22/local/la-me-ucla-smoking-20130423 |archive-date=November 19, 2016 |access-date=November 18, 2016 |website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> expansion of campus gardens,<ref name="Food">{{Cite web |date=January 23, 2015 |title=UC president announces food initiative, recognizes campus efforts |url=https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-president-announces-food-initiative-recognizes-campus-efforts |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119181953/https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-president-announces-food-initiative-recognizes-campus-efforts |archive-date=November 19, 2016 |access-date=November 18, 2016}}</ref> stairwell makeovers,<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 11, 2016 |title=UC president honors students with the President's Award for Outstanding Student Leadership |url=https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/president-award-outstanding-student-leadership |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119182032/https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/president-award-outstanding-student-leadership |archive-date=November 19, 2016 |access-date=November 18, 2016 |website=University of California News}}</ref> bicycle infrastructure improvements,<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 29, 2016 |title=Bike Share Coming to UCLA, Westwood This Fall |url=http://la.curbed.com/2016/4/29/11538254/bikeshare-coming-to-ucla-westwood-this-fall |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119120924/http://la.curbed.com/2016/4/29/11538254/bikeshare-coming-to-ucla-westwood-this-fall |archive-date=November 19, 2016 |access-date=November 18, 2016 |website=Curbed LA}}</ref> healthy and sustainable dining options,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Students meet Bruin Plate food producers in Earth Day event |first1=Tala|last1=Ahmadi|date=April 23, 2014|url=http://dailybruin.com/2014/04/23/students-meet-bruin-plate-food-producers-in-earth-day-event/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119181947/http://dailybruin.com/2014/04/23/students-meet-bruin-plate-food-producers-in-earth-day-event/ |archive-date=November 19, 2016 |access-date=November 18, 2016 |website=Daily Bruin}}</ref> and peer counseling,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Submission: Healthy Campus Initiative works to promote wellness of UCLA community |url=http://dailybruin.com/2015/10/20/submission-healthy-campus-initiative-works-to-promote-wellness-of-ucla-community/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119181945/http://dailybruin.com/2015/10/20/submission-healthy-campus-initiative-works-to-promote-wellness-of-ucla-community/ |archive-date=November 19, 2016 |access-date=November 18, 2016 |website=Daily Bruin}}</ref> among others.

The UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative is credited with providing inspiration for national initiatives including the Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) Healthier Campus Initiative and the University of California Office of the President (UCOP) Global Food Initiative (GFI).<ref name="Food" /><ref name="Daily Bruin"/> In November 2014, UCLA was one of the 20 inaugural colleges and universities to pledge to adopt PHA's guidelines for food and nutrition, physical activity and programming over three years.<ref name="Daily Bruin" /> The Semel HCI is a member of both the Menus of Change Research Collaborative<ref>{{Cite web |title=UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES |url=http://www.moccollaborative.org/members/view/university-of-california-los-angeles |access-date=November 18, 2016 |website=Menus of Change Research Collaborative }}{{Dead link|date=January 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Member Organizations |url=http://www.healthykitchens.org/assets/docs/TKC_Roster.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119120230/http://www.healthykitchens.org/assets/docs/TKC_Roster.pdf |archive-date=November 19, 2016 |access-date=November 18, 2016 |website=Teaching Kitchen Collaborative}}</ref> and a contributor to The Huffington Post.<ref>{{Cite web |title=UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/ucla-healthy-campus-initiative |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119120410/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/ucla-healthy-campus-initiative |archive-date=November 19, 2016 |access-date=November 18, 2016 |website=Huffington Post}}</ref>

==Notable faculty and alumni==
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UCLA's faculty and alumni have won a number of awards, including:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Awards & Honors |url=http://www.ucla.edu/about/awards-and-honors/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151102070139/http://www.ucla.edu/about/awards-and-honors/ |archive-date=November 2, 2015 |access-date=November 1, 2015 |publisher=University of California, Los Angeles}}</ref>

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* 105 [[Academy Award]]s
* 278 [[Emmy Award]]s
* 1 [[Fields Medal]]
* 3 [[Turing Award]]s
* 11 [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright Scholars]] (since 2000)
* 78 [[Guggenheim Fellows]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=UCLA Profile |url=http://www.aim.ucla.edu/profile/main.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610192806/http://www.aim.ucla.edu/profile/main.asp |archive-date=June 10, 2010 |access-date=May 23, 2010 |publisher=Aim.ucla.edu}}</ref>
* 50 [[Grammy Awards]]
* 17 [[MacArthur Fellows]]
* 1 [[Mark Twain Prize for American Humor]]
* 10 [[National Medal of Science|National Medals of Science]]
* 20 [[List of Nobel laureates|Nobel laureates]]
* 3 [[Presidential Medal of Freedom|Presidential Medals of Freedom]]
* 1 [[Pritzker Prize]] in Architecture
* 3 [[Pulitzer Prize]]s
* 1 [[Rome Prize]] in Design
* 12 [[Rhodes Scholars]]
* 1 [[Medal of Honor]]
* 2 [[Mitchell Scholarship|Mitchell Scholars]]
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As of October 2023, 29 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with UCLA: 12 professors,<ref>{{Cite web |title=UCLA Faculty Nobel Laureates |url=http://www.ucla.edu/about/awards-and-honors/faculty/nobel-laureates |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001155930/http://www.ucla.edu/about/awards-and-honors/faculty/nobel-laureates |archive-date=October 1, 2012 |access-date=December 17, 2012 |website=Listing with bio |publisher=Regents of the University of California}}</ref> 9 alumni and 10 researchers (three overlaps).<ref>{{Cite web |title=UCLA Alumni Nobel Laureates |url=http://www.ucla.edu/about/awards-and-honors/alumni-and-students/nobel-laureates |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130308033536/http://www.ucla.edu/about/awards-and-honors/alumni-and-students/nobel-laureates |archive-date=March 8, 2013 |access-date=December 17, 2012 |website=Listing with bio |publisher=Regents of the University of California}}</ref> Two other faculty members winning the Nobel Prize were [[Bertrand Russell]] and [[Al Gore]],<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Lee |first1=Cynthia |last2=Ko, Amy |date=February 13, 2001 |title=Gore Taps Faculty Expertise |url=http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/010213gore.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516011432/http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/010213gore.aspx |archive-date=May 16, 2011 |access-date=August 20, 2008 |publisher=UCLA Today}}</ref> who each had a short stay at UCLA.

{| class="wikitable floatright" style="width: 30em"
|+Faculty Nobel Prizes
|-
! scope="column" | Person
! scope="column" | Field
! scope="column" | Year
|-
|[[Guido Imbens]]
|Economic Sciences
|2021
|-
| [[Andrea Ghez]]
| Physics
| 2020
|-
| [[James Fraser Stoddart]]<ref>Deanna Necula, [http://dailybruin.com/2016/10/08/ucla-professor-emeritus-wins-nobel-prize-in-chemistry/ UCLA professor emeritus wins Nobel Prize in chemistry] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009150937/http://dailybruin.com/2016/10/08/ucla-professor-emeritus-wins-nobel-prize-in-chemistry/ |date=October 9, 2016 }}, ''Daily Bruin'', October 8, 2016</ref>
| Chemistry
| 2016
|-
| [[Lloyd Shapley]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2012 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2012/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517131421/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2012/ |archive-date=May 17, 2013 |access-date=December 17, 2012 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}}</ref>
| Economic Sciences
| 2012
|-
| [[Louis Ignarro]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1998 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1998/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816065929/https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1998/ |archive-date=August 16, 2017 |access-date=December 17, 2012 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}}</ref>
| Physiology or Medicine
| 1998
|-
| [[Paul D. Boyer|Paul Boyer]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1997/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171024205633/https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1997/ |archive-date=October 24, 2017 |access-date=December 17, 2012 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}}</ref>
| Chemistry
| 1997
|-
| [[Donald Cram]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1987 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1987/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121216200501/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1987/ |archive-date=December 16, 2012 |access-date=December 17, 2012 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}}</ref>
| Chemistry
| 1987
|-
| [[Julian S. Schwinger]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1965 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1965/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407012150/https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1965/ |archive-date=April 7, 2018 |access-date=December 17, 2012 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}}</ref>
| Physics
| 1965
|-
| [[Willard Libby]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1960/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180411175122/https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1960/ |archive-date=April 11, 2018 |access-date=December 17, 2012 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}}</ref>
| Chemistry
| 1960
|-
| [[Bertrand Russell]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 1950 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1950/summary/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206153207/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1950/summary/ |archive-date=February 6, 2023 |access-date=September 4, 2025 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}}</ref>
| Literature
| 1950
|}

The alumni Nobel laureates include [[Ralph Bunche]] (Peace, 1950), [[Glenn T. Seaborg]] (Chemistry, 1951), [[Robert Bruce Merrifield]] (Chemistry, 1984), [[William F. Sharpe]] (Economic Sciences, 1990), [[Elinor Ostrom]] (Economic Sciences, 2009), [[Richard F. Heck]] (Chemistry, 2010), [[Randy W. Schekman]] (Physiology or Medicine, 2013), and [[Ardem Patapoutian]] (Physiology or Medicine, 2021).<ref name="University Nobel Prizes"/> Fifty-two UCLA professors have been awarded [[Guggenheim Fellows]]hips, and seventeen are [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Foundation Fellows]]. Mathematics professor [[Terence Tao]] was awarded the 2006 [[Fields Medal]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Highly Cited Researchers |url=http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/browse_author.pl?link1=Browse&link2=Results&value=University+of+California,+Los+Angeles&submit=INSTITUTION&page=0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929102547/http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/browse_author.pl?link1=Browse&link2=Results&value=University+of+California,+Los+Angeles&submit=INSTITUTION&page=0 |archive-date=September 29, 2007 |access-date=December 2, 2006 |website=ISI Highly Cited Researchers |publisher=Thomson Scientific}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable floatright" style="width: 30em;"
|+Faculty memberships (2025)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Faculty Honors |url=http://www.ucla.edu/about/awards-and-honors/faculty-academy |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312090246/http://www.ucla.edu/about/awards-and-honors/faculty-academy |archive-date=March 12, 2017 |access-date=April 17, 2025 |website=www.ucla.edu |publisher=UCLA}}</ref>
|-
| scope="row" | [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]
| 71
|-
| scope="row" | [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]]
| 134
|-
| scope="row" | [[American Philosophical Society]]
| 17
|-
| scope="row" | [[National Academy of Education]]
| 20
|-
| scope="row" | [[National Academy of Engineering]]
| 34
|-
| scope="row" | [[National Academy of Inventors]]
| 29
|-
| scope="row" | [[National Academy of Medicine]]
| 49
|-
| scope="row" | [[National Academy of Sciences]]
| 61
|}

Geography professor [[Jared Diamond]] won the 1998 [[Pulitzer Prize]] for his book ''[[Guns, Germs, and Steel]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |year=2007 |title=The Pulitzer Prize Winners in 1998 |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1998/general-non-fiction/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070223093011/http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1998/general-non-fiction/ |archive-date=February 23, 2007 |access-date=May 21, 2007 |website=Pulitzer Board}}</ref> Two UCLA history professors have each won 2008 Pulitzer Prizes for general nonfiction and history. [[Saul Friedländer]], noted scholar of the Nazi Holocaust, won the prize for general nonfiction for his 2006 book, ''The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945'', and Daniel Walker Howe for his 2007 book, ''What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848''.

A number of UCLA alumni are notable politicians. In the State of Hawaii, [[Ben Cayetano]] ('68), became the first [[Filipino American]] to be elected Governor of a U.S. state.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 24, 1999 |title=Amid Budgetary Woes, University of Hawaii Hunts for a Rainbow |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-24-mn-25576-story.html |access-date=March 13, 2020 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US |archive-date=August 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807105036/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-24-mn-25576-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=December 26, 1994 |title=Politics: New Governor Making Waves in Honolulu: Ben Cayetano's Cabinet appointments have already ruffled feathers. His style gives fits to the Establishment. |author-last1=Essoyan|author-first1=Susan|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-26-mn-13114-story.html |access-date=March 13, 2020 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US |archive-date=August 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807104103/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-26-mn-13114-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Taking Notice |date=29 October 1998|url=http://archives.starbulletin.com/98/10/29/news/story13.html |access-date=March 13, 2020 |website=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |archive-date=February 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224030333/http://archives.starbulletin.com/98/10/29/news/story13.html }}</ref> In the [[U.S. House of Representatives]], [[Henry Waxman]] ('61, '64) represented [[California's 30th congressional district]] and was Chairman of the [[House Energy and Commerce Committee]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Broder |first=John M. |date=November 21, 2008 |title=Democrats Oust Longtime Leader of House Panel |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/us/politics/21dingell.html |url-status=live |access-date=November 20, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410153134/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/us/politics/21dingell.html |archive-date=April 10, 2009}}</ref> U.S. Representative [[Judy Chu]] ('74) represents [[California's 32nd congressional district]] and became the first [[Chinese American]] woman elected to the [[U.S. Congress]] in 2009.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Merl |first=Jean |date=July 16, 2009 |title=Judy Chu becomes first Chinese American woman elected to Congress |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jul-16-me-judy-chu16-story.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 16, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091205193547/http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jul/16/local/me-judy-chu16 |archive-date=December 5, 2009}}</ref> [[Kirsten Gillibrand]] ('91) is a U.S. Senator representing the state of [[New York (state)|New York]] and was a U.S. Representative for [[New York's 20th congressional district]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gormley |first=Michael |date=January 24, 2005 |title=Gillibrand appointed to Senate Seat |work=[[The Boston Globe]] |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/01/24/gillibrand_appointed_to_senate_seat |url-status=live |access-date=May 18, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210234152/http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/01/24/gillibrand_appointed_to_senate_seat/ |archive-date=February 10, 2012}}</ref> UCLA boasts two [[Mayor of Los Angeles|Mayors of Los Angeles]]: [[Tom Bradley (American politician)|Tom Bradley]] (1937–1940), the city's only African-American mayor, and [[Antonio Villaraigosa]] ('77), who served as mayor from 2005 to 2013. [[Nao Takasugi]] was the mayor of [[Oxnard]], California and the first Asian-American California assemblyman. [[Azadeh Kian]], PhD at UCLA and Director of social sciences at [[University of Paris]], is a prominent expert on Iranian politics.

[[H. R. Haldeman]] ('48) and [[John Ehrlichman]] ('48) are among the most infamous alumni because of their activities during the 1972 [[Watergate Scandal]]. [[Ben Shapiro]] (BA '04) is a conservative political commentator, nationally syndicated columnist, author, radio talk show host, and attorney. He is the editor-in-chief at ''[[The Daily Wire]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ben Shapiro |url=http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Ben-Shapiro/407587827 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107034254/http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Ben-Shapiro/407587827 |archive-date=January 7, 2016 |access-date=January 3, 2016 |publisher=Simon & Schuster}}</ref> [[Michael Morhaime]] (BA '90), [[Allen Adham]] (BA '90) and [[Frank Pearce (businessman)|Frank Pearce]] (BA '90) are the founders of [[Blizzard Entertainment]], developer of the award-winning ''[[Warcraft]]'', ''[[StarCraft]]'' and ''[[Diablo (series)|Diablo]]'' computer game franchises. [[Tom Anderson]] (MA '00) is a co-founder of the social networking website [[Myspace]]. Computer scientist [[Vint Cerf]] ('70, '72) is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist at [[Google]] and the person most widely considered the "father of the Internet".<ref>{{Cite web |year=2010 |title=Cerf urges standards for cloud computing |url=http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/cerf-urges-standards-cloud-computing-817 |last1=Krill|first1=Paul|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100110024726/http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/cerf-urges-standards-cloud-computing-817 |archive-date=January 10, 2010 |access-date=January 8, 2010 |website=InfoWorld}}</ref> [[Henry Samueli]] ('75) is co-founder of [[Broadcom Corporation]] and owner of the [[Anaheim Ducks]]. [[Susan Wojcicki]] (MBA '98) is the former CEO of [[YouTube]]. [[Travis Kalanick]] is one of the founders of [[Uber]]. [[Guy Kawasaki]] (MBA '79) is one of the earliest employees at [[Apple Inc.|Apple]]. [[Nathan Myhrvold]] is the founder of [[Microsoft Research]]. [[Bill H. Gross|Bill Gross]] (MBA '71) co-founded Pacific Investment Management ([[PIMCO]]). [[Laurence Fink]] (BA '74, MBA '76) is chairman and CEO of the world's largest money-management firm [[BlackRock]]. [[Donald Prell]] (BA '48) is a venture capitalist and founder of ''[[Datamation]]'' computer magazine. [[Ben Horowitz]] (MS '90) is a co-founder of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm [[Andreessen Horowitz]].

UCLA alumni have also achieved prominence in the arts and entertainment. [[John Williams]] is laureate conductor at the [[Boston Pops Orchestra]] and [[Academy Award]]-winning composer of the ''[[Star Wars]]'' film score. [[Martin Sherwin]] ('71) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for ''[[American Prometheus]]: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer''. Actors [[Ben Stiller]], [[Jack Black]], [[Tim Robbins]], [[James Franco]], [[George Takei]], [[Mayim Bialik]], [[Sean Astin]], [[Holland Roden]], [[Danielle Panabaker]], and [[Milo Ventimiglia]] are also UCLA alumni. Popular music artists [[Sara Bareilles]], [[the Doors]], [[Linkin Park]], and [[Maroon 5]] all attended UCLA. [[Ryan Dusick]] of Maroon 5 majored in English. [[Giada De Laurentiis]] is a program host at [[Food Network]] and former chef at [[Spago]]. [[Greg Graffin]], lead singer of [[punk rock]] band [[Bad Religion]], earned a master's degree in geology at UCLA, and used to teach a course on evolution there.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 20, 2007 |title=Reading, Writing and Rock 'n' Roll – Web Exclusive |url=http://magazine.ucla.edu/exclusives/bad-religion_greg-graffin/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130613103026/http://magazine.ucla.edu/exclusives/bad-religion_greg-graffin/ |archive-date=June 13, 2013 |access-date=July 14, 2013 |website=UCLA Magazine}}</ref> [[Carol Burnett]] was the winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2013 (also winner of [[Emmys]], a [[Peabody Award|Peabody]] and a [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] in 2005).<ref>Mary Daily, [https://archive.today/20131024002348/http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/alumna-carol-burnett-class-clown-249059.aspx Carol Burnett: UCLA's class clown takes national honors], ''UCLA Today'', October 22, 2013</ref> [[Francis Ford Coppola]] ('67) was the director of the gangster film trilogy ''[[The Godfather]]'', [[The Outsiders (film)|''The Outsiders'']] starring [[Tom Cruise]], and the Vietnam War film ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' and [[Dustin Lance Black]] is the [[Academy Award]]-winning screenwriter of the film [[Milk (2008 American film)|''Milk'']].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Francis Ford Coppola |url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000338/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190818190124/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000338/ |archive-date=August 18, 2019 |access-date=August 6, 2019 |publisher=IMDb}}</ref>

[[Meb Keflezighi]] ('98) is the winner of the 2014 [[Boston Marathon]] and the [[Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon|2004 Olympic silver medalist in the marathon]]. The [[UCLA Bruins men's basketball|UCLA men's basketball team]] has produced [[Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame|Basketball Hall of Fame]] players such as [[Bill Walton]] and [[Kareem Abdul-Jabbar]] as well as current NBA players [[Kevin Love]] and [[Russell Westbrook]]. Noted [[UCLA Bruins baseball|Bruins baseball]] players include [[Troy Glaus]], [[Chase Utley]], [[Brandon Crawford]], [[Gerrit Cole]], and [[Trevor Bauer]]. [[Los Angeles Dodgers]] manager [[Dave Roberts (outfielder)|Dave Roberts]] won World Series titles as a member of the 2004 [[Boston Red Sox]] and in 2020 as manager of the Dodgers.

Alumni in military include [[Carlton Skinner]], a U.S. Coast Guard Commander who racially integrated that service at the end of World War II on the ''[[Sea Cloud]]''. He was also the first civilian governor of [[Guam]]. [[Francis B. Wai]] is the only Chinese-American and the first Asian-American to be awarded the Congressional [[Medal of Honor]] for his actions in World War II. UCLA also lost an alumnus in early 2007 when Second Lieutenant Mark Daily was killed in Mosul, Iraq after his HMMWV was hit by an IED. Lieutenant Daily's service is marked by a plaque located on the northern face of the Student Activities Center (SAC), where the ROTC halls are currently located. As of August 1, 2016, the top three places where UCLA alumni work are [[Kaiser Permanente]] with 1,459+ alumni, [[UCLA Health System|UCLA Health]] with 1,127+ alumni, and [[Google]] with 1,058+ alumni.<ref>{{Cite web |title=UCLA-top three companies |url=https://www.linkedin.com/edu/university-of-california-los-angeles-17950 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140717161745/http://www.linkedin.com/edu/university-of-california-los-angeles-17950 |archive-date=July 17, 2014 |access-date=August 2, 2016}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Varsity Blues scandal|2019 college admissions bribery scandal]]
* ''[[Daily Bruin]]'' – UCLA student newspaper
* [[UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center]]

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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==Further reading==
* Dundjerski, Marina. ''UCLA: The First Century'' (2012) [https://www.amazon.com/UCLA-First-Century-Marina-Dundjerski/dp/1906507376/ref=sr_1_1?Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.x=0&Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.y=0&qid=1699717711&refinements=p_27%3A+Marina%5CcDundjerski&s=books&sr=1-1&unfiltered=1 contents]; a major history
* Hayes-Bautista, David E., et al. "Reginaldo Francisco del Valle: UCLA's Forgotten Forefather." ''Southern California Quarterly'' 88.1 (2006): 1–35. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41172295 online]
* 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) [https://escholarship.org/content/qt7k61h3m7/qt7k61h3m7.pdf online]; a scholarly history and well illustrated.
* Smith, John Matthew. ''The sons of Westwood: John Wooden, UCLA, and the dynasty that changed college basketball'' (University of Illinois Press, 2013) [https://books.google.com/books?id=TgmEAgAAQBAJ&dq=SMITH,+John+Matthew%3B+WOODEN&pg=PP1 online].
* Stadtman. Verne A. ''The University of California, 1868–1968'' (1970), a standard scholarly history focusedon Berkeley and the origins of UCLA. [https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad online]

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