University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles
Former names
  • Los Angeles branch of the California State Normal School (1881–1887)
  • Los Angeles State Normal School (1887–1919)
  • Southern Branch of the University of California (1919–1927)
  • University of California at Los Angeles (1927–1958)[1]
MottoFiat lux (Latin)
Motto in English
"Let there be light"
TypePublic land-grant research university
EstablishedMay 23, 1919 (1919-05-23)[2]
Parent institution
University of California
AccreditationWSCUC
Academic affiliations
Endowment$6.7 billion (2022)[3]
ChancellorGene D. Block[4]
ProvostDarnell Hunt[5]
Academic staff
7,941[6]
Administrative staff
26,139
Students47,518 (Fall 2021)[7]
Undergraduates32,121 (Fall 2021)[7]
Postgraduates13,994 (Fall 2021)[7]
Other students
1,403 (Fall 2021)[7]
Location, ,
United States

34°04′20″N 118°26′34″W / 34.0722°N 118.4427°W / 34.0722; -118.4427
CampusLarge city[9], 467 acres (189 ha)[8]
NewspaperDaily Bruin
ColorsBlue and gold[10]
   
NicknameBruins
Sporting affiliations
Mascot
[11]
Websiteucla.edu

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

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

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

UCLA has been considered a Public Ivy. As of October 2021, 27 Nobel laureates, five Turing Award winners, two Chief Scientists of the U.S. Air Force and one Fields Medalist have been affiliated with it as faculty, researchers and alumni.[20][21][22] As of August 2021, 55 associated faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 29 to the National Academy of Engineering, 41 to the National Academy of Medicine and 156 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[23] The university was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1974.[24]

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  3. ^ As of June 30, 2022; includes assets managed by the UC Regents in the General Endowment Pool for the exclusive benefit of UCLA. "Annual Endowment Report, Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2022" (PDF). University of California. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 8, 2023. Retrieved August 27, 2023.
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  10. ^ "Brand Guidelines | Identity | Colors". Archived from the original on November 24, 2018. Retrieved November 23, 2018.
  11. ^ Ho, Melanie (2005). "Bruin Bear". UCLA English department. Archived from the original on February 19, 2007. Retrieved May 20, 2007.
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  17. ^ "Home of Champions". Stanford University Athletics. Archived from the original on December 12, 2019. Retrieved December 6, 2021.
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  22. ^ "Terence Tao, 'Mozart of Math,' Wins Fields Medal, Called 'Nobel Prize in Math'". EurekAlert!. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). August 22, 2006. Archived from the original on September 1, 2012. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
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  24. ^ "Member Institutions and Years of Admission". Association of American Universities. Archived from the original on May 21, 2012. Retrieved December 30, 2011.

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