The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), referred to as UCLA, is a public research university located in Los Angeles, USA. It is one of the "public Ivy League" universities and ranks first among the top public schools in the United States for the eighth consecutive time.
In 1919, the former Los Angeles Normal College was merged into the University of California to establish the University of California Southern. In 1927, construction of the Westwood campus began, and the school was renamed the University of California in Los Angeles in the same year. In 1958, it was officially named the University of California, Los Angeles.
Ranked 15th in the 2025US News university rankings, the school has 13 colleges, undergraduate degrees include 135 majors and 101 minors, and more than 130 graduate and doctoral programs. Advantage majors include biology, management economics, political science, psychology, etc.
The school has 7,941 teachers and has produced 24 Nobel Prize winners, 4 Turing Award winners, 3 Fields Medal winners, 7 Pulitzer Prize winners, and 31 MacArthur Genius Award winners.
The campus covers an area of 419 acres. The original design of the campus follows the Lombardy Renaissance art style, and there are many exquisite buildings, such as the central library. The North Campus is the center of the original campus. The building style is older and covered with Italian bricks. It is the center of the arts, humanities and other disciplines.
UCLA will host the Olympic Village for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Its graduates have excelled in business finance, high-tech industries, film arts and other fields, and are the cradle of these professionals. At the same time, the school provides students with a wealth of resources and support, including financial assistance, physical and mental health counseling, job search counseling and so on.