University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a <a href="/facts/Public_university/Avsc2TmM">public</a> <a href="/facts/Land-grant_university/hCRoj5g0">land-grant</a> <a href="/facts/Research_university/Joe4e6SF">research university</a> in <a href="/facts/Los_Angeles/pyXpYEX9">Los Angeles</a>, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a <a href="/facts/Normal_school/lWVcn0JL">normal school</a> then known as the southern branch of the <a href="/facts/California_State_Normal_School/RAbmcaIk">California State Normal School</a> which later evolved into <a href="/facts/San_Jose_State_University/2WtScLRd">San José State University</a>. 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 <a href="/facts/University_of_California/M9AWowUd">University of California</a> system after the <a href="/facts/University_of_California%2c_Berkeley/MXVEjklr">University of California, Berkeley</a>.
UCLA offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a range of disciplines, enrolling about 31,600 undergraduate and 14,300 graduate and professional students annually. It received 174,914 undergraduate applications for Fall 2022, including transfers, the most of any <a href="/facts/Higher_education_in_the_United_States/X8LdW6KC">university in the United States</a>. The university is organized into the <a href="/facts/UCLA_College_of_Letters_and_Science/TntGCa06">College of Letters and Science</a> and twelve professional schools. Six of the schools offer undergraduate degree programs: <a href="/facts/UCLA_School_of_the_Arts_and_Architecture/r6Vg2lfl">Arts and Architecture</a>, <a href="/facts/UCLA_Henry_Samueli_School_of_Engineering_and_Applied_Science/PMGuULy8">Engineering and Applied Science</a>, <a href="/facts/UCLA_Herb_Alpert_School_of_Music/MsXXylkd">Music</a>, <a href="/facts/UCLA_School_of_Nursing/MVqK6ePG">Nursing</a>, <a href="/facts/UCLA_Luskin_School_of_Public_Affairs/RFybRAjp">Public Affairs</a>, and <a href="/facts/UCLA_School_of_Theater%2c_Film_and_Television/KjS8y55J">Theater, Film and Television</a>. Three others are graduate-level professional health science schools: <a href="/facts/David_Geffen_School_of_Medicine_at_UCLA/Jcb7PApE">Medicine</a>, <a href="/facts/UCLA_School_of_Dentistry/WMl3Eu8X">Dentistry</a>, and <a href="/facts/UCLA_School_of_Public_Health/XsrBz2r2">Public Health</a>. Its three remaining schools are <a href="/facts/UCLA_Graduate_School_of_Education_and_Information_Studies/36NN01bt">Education & Information Studies</a>, <a href="/facts/UCLA_Anderson_School_of_Management/Ka9Uae08">Management</a> and <a href="/facts/UCLA_School_of_Law/sKGjXuIM">Law</a>.
UCLA student-athletes compete as the <a href="/facts/UCLA_Bruins/I2YGHoYT">Bruins</a> in the <a href="/facts/Big_Ten_Conference/0IzwKheT">Big Ten Conference</a>. They won 124 <a href="/facts/National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association/nLkY4pm1">NCAA</a> team championships while in the Big Ten and the <a href="/facts/Pac-12_Conference/rT9ooVeq">Pac-12 Conference</a>, second only to <a href="/facts/Stanford_University/JEQeF9z2">Stanford University</a>'s 128 team titles. 410 Bruins have made <a href="/facts/Olympic_Games/TXbdPIVS">Olympic</a> teams, winning <a href="/facts/List_of_American_universities_with_Olympic_medals/cQvTJfq2">270 Olympic medals</a>: 136 <a href="/facts/Gold_medal/KNdclHgp">gold</a>, 71 <a href="/facts/Silver_medal/ASVorcq2">silver</a> and 63 <a href="/facts/Bronze_medal/vFQ7jvoh">bronze</a>. UCLA has been represented in every Olympics since the university's founding (except in <a href="/facts/1924_Summer_Olympics/TMQCNF9I">1924</a>) and has had a gold medalist in every Olympics in which the U.S. has participated since 1932.
As of March 2024<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=University_of_California,_Los_Angeles&action=edit">[update]</a>, 16 <a href="/facts/List_of_Nobel_laureates/3vGWzdwa">Nobel laureates</a>, 11 <a href="/facts/Rhodes_Scholarship/aVf26dt3">Rhodes scholars</a>, two <a href="/facts/Turing_Award/HbEEp0GF">Turing Award</a> winners, 2 <a href="/facts/Chief_Scientist_of_the_U.S._Air_Force/fY24SnL8">Chief Scientists of the U.S. Air Force</a>, 1 <a href="/facts/Pritzker_Architecture_Prize/g7tzyDc2">Pritzker Prize</a> winner, 7 <a href="/facts/Pulitzer_Prize/wD4PN6Xs">Pulitzer Prize</a> winners, 2 <a href="/facts/United_States_Poet_Laureate/2B9JdDNr">U.S. Poet laureates</a>, 1 <a href="/facts/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss_Prize/vCyhYJ35">Gauss prize</a> winner, and 1 <a href="/facts/Fields_Medal/khFmkEnm">Fields Medalist</a> have been affiliated with it as faculty, researchers and alumni. As of April 2025<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=University_of_California,_Los_Angeles&action=edit">[update]</a>, 61 associated faculty members have been elected to the <a href="/facts/United_States_National_Academy_of_Sciences/M3oePVeG">National Academy of Sciences</a>, 17 to the <a href="/facts/American_Philosophical_Society/auqTbV2C">American Philosophical Society</a>, 34 to the <a href="/facts/National_Academy_of_Engineering/6RCqfvXM">National Academy of Engineering</a>, 49 to the <a href="/facts/National_Academy_of_Medicine/FdIo0Nd4">National Academy of Medicine</a>, 29 to the <a href="/facts/National_Academy_of_Inventors/YLq8txmW">National Academy of Inventors</a>, and 71 to the <a href="/facts/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences/KptWYgz4">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>.

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