University Of California-Los Angeles

Location and Contact Information

The campus is in a large city.

Overview

The University of California Los Angeles, also known as UCLA, is a public research university located in Westwood Village, Los Angeles--five miles from the Pacific Ocean. The school was founded as a branch of the state university in 1919.

UCLA is the second-oldest general-purpose campus in the University of California system. The campus, covering an area of 419 acres, was officially dedicated in 1930.

UCLA ranks among the nation's top five institutions in research funding. The School of Medicine and UCLA's research hospital provide access to biomedical research projects. Other research centers include California Center for Population Research; Center for Chinese Studies; Center for the Study of Urban Poverty; and Institute of the Environment.

UCLA's library is ranked among the top ten academic libraries in North America. Its collection encompasses more than 8 million volumes, tens of thousands of serial subscriptions, and extensive online academic resources. Students are permitted to access the holdings of all UC libraries, which are collectively second only to the Library of Congress.

UCLA is made up of several academic divisions, which include:

• Anderson School of Management
• Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
• Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science?
• Herb Alpert School of Music
• School of Law
• School of Public Affairs
• School of the Arts and Architecture
• School of Theater, Film, and Television

UCLA, a member of the Association of American Universities, was ranked 25th by U.S. News & World Report among America's Best Colleges of 2009.

Famous alumni of UCLA include Ralph Bunche, U.N. mediator and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; Steve Crocker, Internet pioneer; Kay Redford Jamison, psychiatrist and writer at Johns Hopkins University; Fred Whipple, astronomer, namesake of Whipple Observatory in Arizona; Jonathan Kellerman, Edgar Award-winning novelist and psychologist; Agnes de Mille, dancer and choreographer; actors Beau and Lloyd Bridges, Carol Burnett, Elizabeth MccGovern, Kal Penn and Ben Stiller; directors Francis Ford Coppola and Rob Reiner; John Williams, James Horner and Randy Newman, award-winning film score composers; Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, six-time NBA champion, Hal of Famer; Arthur Ashe, tennis play, Hall of Famer; Michelle Kwan, world champion figure skater; Kenny Washington, one of first African American players to integrate the NFL; Johnnie Cochran, attorney; Tom Bradley, former Mayor of Los Angeles; Dennis Ross, U.S. diplomat to the Middle East; Giada De Laurentiis, Food Network Chef; Arthur Janov, psychologist, inventor of Primal Therapy; and Laura Ling, TV journalist, notable for her detainment in North Korea.

Highlights (vs. Other Schools)

• Many students concentrating in mathematics, science, religion and philosophy, drama and performing arts, music, therapy and counseling, liberal arts, and medicine.
• Large number of programs of study offered.
• Large number of students.
• High faculty salary.
• Selective admissions.
• High SAT scores (combined Verbal and Math).
• Number of dorm rooms for students.
• Racially diverse student body.

School characteristics:

• The school is public.
• Academic calender: Quarter.
• Carnegie classification: Doctoral/Research Universities, Extensive.

Features of note:

• The school offers a faculty tenure system.
• There is a hospital on campus.
• There are one or more libraries on-campus.
• Campus housing is available.
• Students have meal (board) plans.
• Students may study abroad.
• Distance learning is available.
• Part-time classes are available.
• ROTC.
• Athlete financial aid is awarded.

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Degrees Awarded (in 2009-2010)

Faculty

Tenure (2009-2010):

Students

Student enrollment was 38,220 in 2009-2010 (37,681 full-time equivalent).

About 42% of the freshmen class in 2009-2010 was male and women were 58% of the class.

Undergrads are 70% of enrolled students, graduate students are 25%, and those seeking first-professional graduate degrees represent 5%.

Students under 25 years old represent 73% of the student body. About 2% of the school is at least 40 years of age.

Among freshmen students, 100% are full-time and 0% are part-time.

Admissions Summary (2009-2010)

SAT Test Scores:

Room and Board

UCLA provides on-campus housing for 13,249 of its 37,681 (full-time) students (as of 2009-2010).

Students may purchase a meal plan which includes 19 meals weekly.

Athletics

School sports include football, basketball, baseball, and track. The school is in the Pacific-10 Conference for major sports.

The school offers financial aid for athletes. Of students receiving athletic financial aid, 201 male students received the aid (men were 53% of those receiving aid) and 181 women were awarded financial aid based on athletics (representing 47% of students receiving such aid) .

Graduate School Focus

UCLA offers graduate (post-Bachelor) studies. The highest degree offered is the Doctorate (Research/Scholarship & Professional Practice).

Graduate offerings include continuing professional education and medical degrees.The school's Graduate School Carnegie Classification is Comprehensive Doctoral With Medical/Veterinary.

Programs of Study

(Number of degrees in 2009-2010 in parentheses)

ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING (138 awarded)

• Architecture (BArch, BA/BS, MArch, MA/MS, PhD)
• City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning

ART STUDIES (63 awarded)

• Art/Art Studies

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (902 awarded)

• Business Administration and Management
• Business/Managerial Economics

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (199 awarded)

• Computer Engineering
• Computer and Information Sciences
• Information Science/Studies

CONSERVATION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (21 awarded)

• Environmental Science

DESIGN (60 awarded)

• Design and Applied Arts
• Design and Visual Communications

DRAMA AND PERFORMING ARTS (119 awarded)

• Dance
• Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts

EDUCATION AND TEACHING (322 awarded)

• Education
• Educational Leadership and Administration

ENGINEERING (795 awarded)

• Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
• Agricultural/Biological Engineering and Bioengineering
• Archeology
• Biomedical/Medical Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
• Engineering
• Geological/Geophysical Engineering
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Materials Engineering
• Materials Science
• Mechanical Engineering

FAMILY AND SOCIAL WORK (154 awarded)

• Public Policy Analysis
• Social Work

FINE ARTS (164 awarded)

• Art History, Criticism and Conservation
• Fine Arts and Art Studies

LAW (423 awarded)

• Advanced Legal Research/Studies, Gen (LLM, MCL, MLI, MSL, JSD/SJD)
• Law (LLB, JD)
• Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies
• Programs for Foreign Lawyers (LLM, MCL)

LIBERAL ARTS (4,341 awarded)

• African Studies
• African-American/Black Studies
• American Indian/Native American Studies
• American Literature (United States)
• Ancient/Classical Greek Language and Literature
• Anthropology
• Arabic Language and Literature
• Area Studies
• Area, Ethnic, Cultural, and Gender Studies
• Asian Studies/Civilization
• Asian-American Studies
• Chinese Language and Literature
• Classical/Ancient Mediterranean/Near Eastern Studies & Archaeology
• Classics/Classical Languages, Lit & Linguistics
• Comparative Literature
• Development Economics and International Development
• East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
• East Asian Studies
• Economics
• English Language and Literature
• English Language and Literature/Letters
• European Studies/Civilization
• Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
• French Language and Literature
• Geography
• German Language and Literature
• Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
• Hebrew Language and Literature
• Hispanic-American,Puerto Rican & Mexican-American/Chicano Studies
• History
• International Economics
• International/Global Studies
• Italian Language and Literature
• Japanese Language and Literature
• Korean Language and Literature
• Latin American Studies
• Latin Language and Literature
• Library Science
• Linguistic/Comparative/Related Language Studies & Services
• Linguistics
• Middle/Near Eastern/Semitic Languages, Lit & Linguistics
• Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies
• Political Science and Government
• Portuguese Language and Literature
• Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
• Russian Language and Literature
• Russian Studies
• Scandinavian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
• Slavic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
• Sociology
• Spanish Language and Literature
• Women's Studies

MATHEMATICS (321 awarded)

• Applied Mathematics
• Computational Mathematics
• Mathematics
• Statistics

MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION (23 awarded)

• Environmental Health
• Health Services Administration

MEDICINE (574 awarded)

• Dental Clinical Sciences, General (MS, PhD)
• Dentistry (DDS, DMD)
• Medical Scientist (MS, PhD)
• Medicine (MD)
• Neuroscience
• Public Health, General (MPH, DPH)
• Public Health

MUSIC (145 awarded)

• Music History, Literature, and Theory
• Music
• Musicology and Ethnomusicology

NURSING AND EMERGENCY MEDICINE (201 awarded)

• Nursing

PHOTOGRAPHY AND COMMERCIAL ART (138 awarded)

• Film/Cinema Studies

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY (151 awarded)

• Islamic Studies
• Jewish/Judaic Studies
• Philosophy
• Religion/Religious Studies

SCIENCE (1,472 awarded)

• Astronomy
• Astrophysics
• Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology
• Biochemistry
• Bioinformatics
• Biology/Biological Sciences
• Biomathematics and Bioinformatics
• Biophysics
• Biostatistics
• Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology
• Chemistry
• Ecology
• Epidemiology
• Geochemistry
• Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences
• Geology/Earth Science
• Geophysics and Seismology
• Human/Medical Genetics
• Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography
• Microbiological Sciences and Immunology
• Molecular Biochemistry
• Molecular Biology
• Molecular Pharmacology
• Molecular Physiology
• Molecular Toxicology
• Neurobiology and Neurophysiology
• Pathology/Experimental Pathology
• Physics
• Physiology

THERAPY AND COUNSELING (886 awarded)

• Cognitive Science
• Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology
• Psychology